TREASURES OF ETHNIC AND FOLK ARTS·Miao's Paper-Cuts

As a treasure of Chinese ethnic and folk art, Miao paper-cut is a traditional folk craft that records numerous ancient cultures. Miao Paper-Cut, written by Zhong Tao, showcases the best of Miao paper-cut art with more than 100 pictures, and clarifies the relationship between Miao paper-cut and embroidery, involving images of Miao paper-cut and ancient history and religion, as wel as the imaginative images and primitive thoughts. The book also introduces the distribution regions, forming factors, and characteristics of pat- terns of various types such as Shi-dong type, Bala-River type, the Upper-Reach-of-the-Duliu-River type, and west Hunan type, demonstrating the ancient cultural value and artistic value of paper-cutting.

Author:
Zhong Tao, Gelao nationality, photographer, ethnologist, member of China Photogra- phers Association, member of Chinese Folk Paper cuting Research Association, and
former vice president of Guizhou Youth Photography Association. His works include "Qingshuijiang Miao Dragon Culture", "Maio Embroidery and Primitive Religion",
"Dong People of China" and "Miao people of China".