Qingyang paper-cutting, flexible expression, paper-cutting skills skilled. Colors are mainly red and green, including monochrome, color matching and dyeing. There are male scissors, that is, leaving lines to outline the image, female scissors, that is, cutting lines and leaving planes, as well as yin-yang scissors that combine the two, symmetrical scissors cut with origami, shadow scissors, pattern scissors and so on. In order to make the lines varied, artists also created and applied plum pattern, cloud hook pattern, sawtooth pattern, Tianhe pattern, crescent pattern, dot pattern, water pattern, pattern and other cutting techniques. They use a pair of dexterous hands to cut their own lives in various ways, which are vivid, affectionate, interesting and poetic.

Qingyang paper-cut writers are mostly illiterate rural women, and even some "paper-cut masters" named by Chinese folklore society are not very literate, and some are completely illiterate. Their craft was learned from their predecessors. Rural girls began to learn paper-cutting around their grandmother and mother at the age of five or six, and they could do it at the age of fifteen or sixteen.

Qingyang paper-cut, there are many kinds. Because of different uses, the content is different. Generally speaking, there are festive paper-cuts, etiquette paper-cuts, disease-free paper-cuts, life paper-cuts, longevity paper-cuts, wedding paper-cuts, reproductive paper-cuts, fun paper-cuts, funeral paper-cuts, pattern paper-cuts, sample paper-cuts and modern production labor paper-cuts and so on. Most of these paper-cuts have patterns, which have been handed down from generation to generation. Careful women put patterns in magazines and books as family heirlooms.