Wei Aijun, a paper-cut artist, is from east China’s Shandong Province. She began to learn the art of paper-cutting from her aunt at the age of six. /VCG Photo

After 50 years of hard work, Wei combined traditional paper-cut skills with innovative color-stitching and other paper-cutting forms to create a large number of paper-cutting styles. /VCG Photo

According to Wei, she likes to use folk stories and historical figures as subjects in her paper-cut works. /VCG Photo

Wei decided to donate all of her paper-cut work to a cultural center in her village. She would like to pass her skills to people so that the tradition can be kept alive. /VCG Photo