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Title	Wikipedia - Chinese Cut Paper
Name of submitter	Lee Li
Category id	14
Category	Chinese Cut Paper
Date submitted	2008-10-04 19:15:07
Id	35
Description	Chinese Paper Cutting or Jianzhi (Chinese: 剪纸, jiǎn zhǐ) is the first type of papercutting design, since paper was invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. The art form later spread to other parts of the world with different regions adopting their own cultural styles. Because the cut outs are also used to decorate doors and windows, they are sometimes referred to "chuāng huā" (窗花), meaning Window Flower.

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