Ma Guo Yu, a female local artist, was born in Ansai county, Shanxi province in China, which is a world-famous hometown of Chinese local art. She is one of the third-class artists and has been selected in a book named The Selection of Chinese local Artist. She loves local paper-cut and painting very much, because she was influenced both by her family and some local artists. Now she has formed her own character of modern paper-cut. She has been a well-known artist in the field of Chinese paper-cut with great success, she has made many great works of paper-cut, such as Happiness in Dog Year, Collecting Treasures and Twelve Animal Representatives of Birth, Not only this, she has also made many great works of painting. For example, Two Stonebreakers, Love for Hometown and Busy Spring. She received the silver award at the Second National Cultural Exhibition of China. She was greatly praised for her works by the experts of Chinese local art. Some of her works have been kept in the central Painting college. Because of her great success on art, she has been high-appreciated as an expert of Chinese paper-cut by the Chinese local Art committee.

Ansai Papercutting Art Papercuts and Mianhua Paper-cut for window decoration Nimble finger creation---Chinese papercutting art