| China is the hometown of paper, people use paper to spread culture and pass on the message. Chinese paper toy is one of the most important parts of our traditional culture, it plays a significant role in our cultural development and lineage. Paper toy can recycle as renewable resources. Thirty years since reforming and opening-up Chinese paper toy market has become more and more mature gradually forms a diversified and multi-layered consumer market.Paper toy market expands a lot than earlier times, it’s achievement for development impressed everyone and prospect is great. Therefore I choose paper toy as my thesis topic.The article discusses the origin of paper toy and analyses it’s material, category, color, manufacturing technique and development prospect, introduce related paper toy company at home and abroad by character interviews, questionnaires, case study and comparative analysis methods. These researches will help us get our ideas straight during the process of paper toy making and find a way to put our traditional culture into modern design method. These researches also can give some guidance to designers. Modern society people have more mental pressure than passed days, consequently, stress-reduction, portable paper toy will possess even more important position. The development of modern paper toy can not live without traditional culture, folk paper toy will provide it abundant content and multiple shape. The intensive study of folk paper toys contribute to our toy career development and it will provide theory evidence for modern toy modernization and nationalization. In the end, this article pointes out that as Chinese become more aware of environment protection, paper toy will be more likely to have extensive space for further development. |