Qingyang paper-cutting has flexible expression and exquisite paper-cutting skills. Colors are mainly red and green, including monochrome, color matching and dyeing. The cutting method is divided into yang cutting, yin cutting and yin-yang cutting. Yang Jian, that is, leaving lines to sketch the image; Incision, that is, cutting off lines and leaving the plane; Yin and Yang scissors are a combination of male scissors and female scissors. In addition, there are symmetrical scissors, shadow scissors, pattern scissors and so on.

In order to make the lines of paper-cut patterns rich and varied, Qingyang paper-cut artists have also created and used various paper-cut methods such as plum blossom pattern, hook cloud pattern, sawtooth pattern, Tianhe pattern, crescent moon pattern, water pattern and pattern. They use a pair of dexterous hands to cut their own lives in various ways, which is vivid, interesting and poetic.