Paper cutting can be seen in many parts of China during the Spring Festival．People stick patterns on the window， doors or desks for the festival．
A thousand years ago， paper cutting was used for decoration．（1）A______to historical books，women in the Tang Dynasty used paper cutting as headdress．In the Song Dynasty，it was the decoration for the gifts． And People pasted them on windows，doors，walls，mirrors or lanterns．Some people made a living by the skill．
Paper cutting is all made by hand．It is （2）e______ to learn．You need only a knife and paper．It can be one piece of paper or many pieces．Simple patterns can be cut with a knife． For complicated patterns，people first pasted the pattern on the paper and （3）t______used various kinds of knives to make it． No （4）m______ can be made during the process， or the work would fail．
Paper cutting （5）c______nearly all topics，from flowers，birds，animals to people in history and characters in classic novels．
In the past，women living in the countryside gathered in their free time to make paper cutting． Nowadays， fewer and fewer people learn this skill， while there are some who still make a living by it． At present，there are factories making paper cutting in China．Exhibitions are held regularly and books of this kind are（6）p______．Paper cutting has changed from decoration to a kind of （7）a______． At the same time， paper cutting also appears in cartoons，on stages，in magazines or in TV series．

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