Early in the morning, disabled paper-cutter Gao Hexiao
came to the office to view the Long March website |
The town of Yongping is located in the northwestern
part of the county. It is the primary supplier of
oil for neighboring counties |
Yongping is known as "Little Hong Kong"
by locals |
Survey team one, group 1 conducts their work in an
elementary school classroom |
Cultural cadre Chen Jixiang is temporarily pressed
into service as a surveyor |
Village cadre Li Qiuyan says that the survey team
hasn't slept in two days |
23 year old Wang Gaizhen says she only "cuts
flowers" when she is happy |
She says she doesn't hang paper-cuttings in her home
because she is afraid other people might laugh at
her work |
Survey team 2 works out of another elementary school |
The elementary school is a key part of the village |
In total, the village has a population of 148 |
of which 27 are women |
Village cadre Wang Jianwei says that the survey work
is meaningful, but very difficult |
Baocun town cadre Kan Xiaochuan |
Elementary school teacher Ma Mingliang and her husband
are known as a "paper-cutting couple" |
Elementary school principle Liu Xiaoyan is also adept
at paper-cuttings |
Team 2 leader Liu Xiaojuan's "weaponry" |
The group takes a picture |
Filling in the gaps before lunch |
Pickled vegetable noodles |
Liu Xiaojuan says that because of participating in
the survey, she has lost over 5000RMB in paper-cutting
sales |
Yongping village group 8 |
In the grotto is the sound of clothing being washed |
A wealthy family in the Yellow River area |
37 year old Ma Haiyan was not happy with the paper-cuttings
she saw on TV, and thought she could make even better
ones |
Because her husband works in the oilfields, she often
makes paper-cuttings relating to oil wells |
Ma Haiyan has 2 sons and one daughter |
Due to illness as a child, her second son has permanent
brain damage. The family has spent of 40,000 RMB to
try and cure him |
Oil field man and paper-cutting woman |
Ma Haiyan was upset when Feng Shanyun says that her
works are like Gao Fenglian's |
Ma Haiyan's oil well work |
The man in front of the car is an official, behind
are the common folk, one holding a cell phone, the
other carrying a plate of watermelon |
The machine shown in this book is her inspiration |
A work inspired by the book |
Feng Shanyun sharpens a pair of scissors for the paper-cutter |
