Pape-cut are very beautiful and intrersting, and are widely popular among Chinese people. This book includes painting and paper-cuts of 12 Birth Animal of China, with both English and Chinese description.

A brief introduction for Paper-cut:

Paper-cut is a picture cut out on a paper with scissors. The picture patterns are often pasted on the linteis, windows, or lanterns to express the feelings of jou and the perceptions in life. Hence the scissors-cut is also known as "scissors-picture"or"paper-cut for window decoration".