How to cut paper with the word "福"

(1) Preparation: Take eight pieces of paper and order them in sets of four for later use.

(2) Tracing: Trace the glyphs in the picture. Pay attention to the glyph characteristics of each character. Fuyu can be written in many different fonts, such as running script, regular script, cursive script, official script, and seal script. Running script and regular script are common in folk paper-cutting. Other forms are mostly the character "福" in seal script. According to relevant information, there are more than a hundred ways of writing the character "福" in seal script.

(3) Cutting: Common auspicious characters in folk life generally include "Fu Lu Shou Xi", "Ruyi", "Auspicious", etc. Especially the four words "Fu Lu Shou Xi" are the most common. See. The word "福", which is the first among these four words, has the connotation of the last three characters. Therefore, the word "福" is used the most in folk life. When the Spring Festival comes, every family must post a word "福". When cutting the word "Fu", you should pay attention to the charm of each stroke when using running script or wiping script fonts (see the picture). When cutting the seal script font (see the picture), you should pay attention to the clever connection of each stroke to maintain the overall structure of the font. For the connections between strokes, small thin lines that are in great contrast with the strokes should be left. The thickness of these connecting lines must not be the same as the strokes of the font. Otherwise, it will cause the feeling of typos.