Material preparation: paper, pen, scissors, etc.

Operating steps:

1. First, fold the square colored paper in half from the middle, as shown in the figure below.

2. Then draw the outline of the leaf on the rectangle, as shown in the figure below.

3. Then draw three veins above the leaves, as shown in the figure below.

4. Then draw two veins under the leaves, as shown in the figure below.

5. Then use scissors to cut out the outline of the leaves, as shown in the figure below.

6. Then use scissors to cut out three veins above the leaves, as shown in the figure below.

7. Then cut two veins under the leaves with scissors, as shown in the figure below.

8. Then turn it over and spread it flat, and our paper-cut leaves will be cut.

Paper cutting:

1. Paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities.

2. Its inherited visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public. Paper-cut art heritage has been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list of China and the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

3. Paper-cutting has been in a period of great development in the Tang Dynasty. In Du Fu's poem Peng ADB, there is a saying that "warm soup is enough for me and paper is enough for my soul", and the custom of evoking souls by paper-cutting has been circulated among the people at that time.

4. As can be seen from the paper-cut in the Tang Dynasty in the British Museum, the paper-cut at that time had a very high level of manual art and a complete picture composition, which expressed an ideal realm between heaven and earth.