Chinese paper-cut is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or knives to cut and carve patterns on paper to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cut has a broad mass base, integrates into the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities. Its continuous visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, express the social cognition, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste of the general public, and have multiple social values such as cognition, enlightenment, ideographic, lyric, entertainment and communication.

On May 20, 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, the Chinese paper-cut project declared by China was selected into the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".