Cai Lanying
Chinese paper-cut artist
About Cai Lanying
Lived 1918 – 2005 (aged 86–87). Cai Lanying was a Chinese papercut artist.
Cai Lanying (蔡蘭英; 1918 – 2005) was a Chinese cut-paper artist.
Cai Lanying was born in 1918 in Xian County, Hebei, China. She was born into a peasant family and had little education; she was unable to read or write. She began papercutting at age eight and created over 10 thousand works.
Her paper-cut of a rooster was selected for the annual Chinese zodiac stamp by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for the 1993 Year of the Rooster. Her design features a rooster with cocked head and outspread wings above plum blossoms and a caption reading, "The rooster crows for the coming of spring."
Cai Lanying was invited to the World Conference on Women, 1995.
Can Lanying died in 2005.
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Who was Cai Lanying?
Chinese paper-cut artist
When was Cai Lanying born?
Cai Lanying was born in 1918 in Xian County.
When did Cai Lanying die?
Cai Lanying died in 2005.
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Cai Lanying was a papercut artist.
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Cai Lanying was Chinese.
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