Material preparation: paper.
Step 1: First, prepare two square pieces of paper with the same size, fold the four sides of each piece of paper in pairs, and then unfold it, leaving a crease.
Step 2: Fold the upper and lower edges of each piece of paper to the middle crease and align them.
Step 3: Fold the middle crease of the upper and lower long edges of each piece of paper, as shown in the figure.
Step 4: Fold the right side of the left paper along the middle crease, and align the edge with the crease. On the other hand, the paper on the right is folded down along the middle crease and the edge is aligned with the crease.
Step 5: Fold the other side of the two pieces of paper in half along the center line, in the opposite direction to the previous step. Two such components are obtained.
Step 7: Fold the upper and lower corners of the two parts to the middle along the overlapping edges to get two such shapes.
Step 8: unfold all the four corners folded to the center in the previous step, and then fold the middle part of the two parts together like this, paying attention to the side with the gap in the middle facing outward when folding.
Step 9, then insert the four corners into the gap in the middle and assemble them, so that the beautiful dart is folded. Try to throw it hard. It flies far away. It's cool.
The birth and spread of origami;
1, born
There is no doubt that origami was born in China. Around the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, China people made the earliest paper in the true sense. Because of the low quality and low output of early paper, it is obviously not suitable for folding. There is no record of origami in literature and unearthed cultural relics, so it is impossible to verify when origami originated.
Step 2 communicate
In the sixth year of Yang Di the Great's reign, paper first appeared in Japan. Tan Zheng, a versatile Koguryo monk, introduced papermaking into origami works in Japan, and Tan Zheng himself was also called the "paper god" by the Japanese. Since then, origami has risen rapidly in Japan and has been widely used in Buddhist etiquette. Around 1200, a more complicated paper model appeared in Japan.
At that time, it was popular among Japanese samurai to exchange their knives and paper flowers folded in a special way to prove friendship. Paper models are also used to celebrate weddings. During the Muromachi shogunate period, paper became a cheap product, and origami began to spread to all walks of life. During this period, in the traditional Japanese festival-Daughter's Day, mothers began to fold out various paper dolls for sacrifice, which has been popular until today.
However, in Japan, the earliest record of origami cultural relics was also after18th century. Some ukiyo-e paintings in the Edo period reflect the situation of Japanese origami. 1797, the mayor of Sanming City, Mie Prefecture wrote and published the world's first origami book, The Secret Story of Thousand Feathers Crane.