Hundred-dog picture to celebrate New Year

A 25-meter picture pasted with 100 dog-shaped paper cuts was created to celebrate 2018 -- the Year of the Dog in China, in Jilin, Jilin province, during the Spring Festival.

The art work was made by Li Xia, a Jilin native, who is in her 60s. She said it took her an entire year to design it before cutting began.

Li cut 100 dogs to celebrate the Year of the Dog. [Photo/cnjiwang.com]

Li is a Manchu paper-cut artist and began learning paper cutting when she was still young.

Her whole family is keen on this art, and she herself is one of the first craft masters in Jilin province and a provincial intangible cultural inheritor.

The dog picture is the 11th of her Chinese zodiac works.

The paper-cut dogs are in all kinds of postures. [Photo/cnjiwang.com]

"My son was born in the Year of the Rat. Therefore, in 2008, which is also a Rat year, I decided to create the Hundred-rat picture," Li said.

"Since then, I make one every year."

Next year will be the Year of the Pig and Li will have completed all 12 zodiac paper-cut pictures.

She added that she always enjoys working on these paper cuts and believes that her work is meaningful as it promotes the traditional Chinese paper-cutting art.