陕西安康剪纸最早可追溯到商代。当时虽没有纸,但已出现镂花金箔,用金银箔和彩帛剪成花鸟贴于鬓角作为装饰,成为古代妇女的一种风尚。这就是剪纸最早的雏形。汉代有了纸以后,出现了真正的剪纸艺术。由于剪纸应用在生活的各个方面,慢慢地就演变成人们用来谋生的手段。随着人们不断增长的物质文化生活需要,许多小手工业者应运而生,安康剪纸也得到蓬勃发展,出现了专门的剪纸艺人和剪纸纹样。安康剪纸的种类安康剪纸从用途上可分为三大类,其品类如下:1.刺绣底样:也叫刺绣花样,此为过去安康剪纸的主要用途之一。刺绣底样使用普通白纸或贴棚纸剪成。 Shaanxi Ankang paper cutting can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty. At that time, although there was no paper, an engraved gold leaf appeared and a gold and silver foil and a colored silk cut into flowers and birds on the temple as a decoration, making it a fashion for ancient women. This is the earliest prototype of paper-cut. After the Han Dynasty with the paper, there appeared a real art of paper-cut. As paper-cutting is applied in all aspects of life, it slowly evolves into a means by which people earn a living. With people’s growing needs of material and cultural life, many small handicraftsmen came into being, and well-being of paper-cut has also been flourished, with the emergence of specialized paper-cut artists and paper-cut patterns. Ankang paper-cut types Ankang paper-cut from the use can be divided into three categories, the following categories: 1. Embroidery samples: also known as embroidery patterns, this is the past one of the major uses of paper-cut well-being. Embroidery end use ordinary white or canopy cut into pieces.