Cut Paper And Make Shoes, 97 Years Old.

Paper cutting is rich and beautiful; children's shoes are beautiful and elegant; silk flowers are very vivid.

These works are from the hands of Hu Shumei, a 97 year old man.

Hu Shumei is a Hsueh village in Hangzhou.

Referring to Hu Shumei, none of the men and women in the village did not raise their thumbs to praise.

To everyone's admiration, none of her paper-cut works were imitated, and all kinds of designs were made by herself. All the children's shoes and vamp were embroidered with flowers, such as pomegranate, tiger and goldfish. Her silk flower was meticulous, but she was more than 90 years old, but her eyes were not worn.

Seiko meticulous, meticulous, chic and creative, this is the first feeling that people see Hu Shumei's old man's works, and even a little bit of love.

Hu Shumei's paper-cut is rich in content and many varieties, including window flowers, fireworks and so on. Most of them are flowers and birds. Paper-cut works such as goldfish, lotus, Phoenix double happiness, magpie and plum blossom are all lifelike.

In particular, cut the double happiness word, the old man action express, fold the paper around a few, and then pick up the scissors, click the number, a big red Xi character is cut.

The work of children's shoes is even more convincing.

All kinds of patterns are embroidered on the upper and upper sides of shoes. Pomegranates, tigers, goldfish, butterflies and so on are dazzling, and all kinds of collocation are also very conspicuous.

Even more eye opening is that the sole of her stitch will form a uniform figure. Hu Shumei said, "it is called peach blossom".

The work of silk flower is more complicated.

First, put the silk thread on the side of the washbasin, pave it flat, brush it with toothbrush, then use soap to paste it straight, and then dry it and make a variety of flowers around it, then make up the Eight Diagrams flower.

The old man said that it took a long time to make a gossip and put it in the dowry of the dowry. It was very lucky and has done more than 100.

Hu Shumei, the daughter-in-law of the old man, said, "the old man is very interested in making. When he is free, he usually goes into the room to do his" work ".

In the old days, when the old man was in good health, she came to the kitchen to help cook when she was cooking.

When the reporter asked Hu Shu Mei whether he or she had boredom, the old man said that he was enjoying himself, and there was no hint of boredom.

Sometimes, I can't sleep at night, and I start to cut paper, make children's shoes, or make silk flowers.

The old man is very enthusiastic about the neighbour and the old man.

When the family in the village has children, the old man will give them a pair of shoes. Some people will have a happy wedding. The old man will also send some paper-cut paintings.

Some neighbors have to celebrate their wedding events, and tell them in advance to help cut some happy characters, and so on. The elderly will work overtime to help them, and the styles are various and exquisite.

There are several cupboards in the old man's room, which are filled with all kinds of paper cuts, children's shoes and silk flowers.

To see reporters, the old man is familiar with the works from the cabinet, one by one presented to reporters.

Family members say that whenever people come to visit, the elderly will go all out to display, and will continue to introduce how to make.

The old man has a sketch.

The old man said that all of the paintings were paper-cut works, mainly as samples.

Some asked the old man to cut paper but he could not tell the details. Some asked the old man for paper-cut but did not know the style. So the old man painted the sample painting according to his accumulated years.

Not long ago, the stone house of Hangzhou Ping Town specially copied the sketch of Hu Shumei's old man into a book, which served as a model for all teachers and students to learn paper cutting.

Village cadres in the village of Xue Xue told reporters that over the years, the elderly have been very enthusiastic about teaching the neighborhood how to cut paper, make children's shoes and silk flowers.

What pleased the old man most was that she was so tall and unable to read. She also acted as the two teacher. She took the students to her home for the two time, and asked her to teach the students to cut paper by hand.

What is more impressive to Hu Shumei is that in October 3rd this year, when the minors association was established in the village of Xue Xue village, the village also invited her to come to the stage to give the whole village minors a lesson on how to cut paper.