A young farmer in northwest China's Shaanxi Province recently completed a paper-cut picture scroll depicting the 80-year development history of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC).
The picture scroll is being exhibited in the provincial capital of Xi'an.
The 100-meter-long paper-cut picture scroll is divided into five parts: the first part is formed by the portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong, drawing the outline of the international communism movement.
The second part, occupying 40 meters of the scroll, reflects the history of the CPC between 1921, when it was founded, and 1949 when the new China was founded, and the third and fourth parts show the splendid achievements China has made in socialist construction and since the implementation of the reforms and opening up drive more than twenty years ago. The fifth part depicts a beautiful blueprint for the development of the western region.
Du Junhu, 24, who cut the picture scroll, lives in the Fengyi Township of Xingping. He has been fond of sculpting, traditional Chinese painting and paper-cut since his childhood. Many of his paper-cut works have become part of art collections in the United States, France, Germany, New Zealand, Belgium and other countries.
(People’s Daily 06/21/2001)
