Qingyang, as the capital city at that time, was one of the earliest areas where paper-cutting art rose. After the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, paper-cutting developed maturely. 1930, The Picture of Living in Five Blessingg, created and edited by Hu Xianchuan (female) in Qingcheng County, was published in Polish Pictorial, and Qingyang paper-cutting went abroad for the first time. From 65438 to 0942, the government of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region organized professionals to collect and sort out Qingyang folk paper-cuts. After liberation, Gu Yuan, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, drew lessons from Qingyang paper-cutting and created many precious woodcut works. These woodcuts have influenced Qingyang paper-cutting and made Qingyang paper-cutting have a new improvement. From 65438 to 0959, Qingcheng County published Qingyang Folk Paper-cut, which was loved and praised by experts at the national mass art site meeting held in Xifeng. From 65438 to 0985, Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House published Wang Guangpu's Longdong folk paper-cut, which pushed Qingyang paper-cut to the whole country again.

Qingyang paper-cutting has a long history and has long been influential at home and abroad. As early as the Han Dynasty, with the invention of papermaking, the paper-cutting art of cutting people's images with paper instead of living people began. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the use of paper-cutting was further expanded. People cut out portraits of military commanders Qin Qiong and Jingde, and put them on doors as door gods to ward off evil spirits. Since then, the art of paper-cutting has continued to develop, the theme has been broadened and the use has been increasing, from the palace to the folk.