With bold imagery, folk artists borrowed those linguistic principles and generalizations and applied them in the creation of pattern, thus created unique lucky pattern full of deep culture meanings and of aesthetic values as the characters were transferred into patterns. Paper-cutting “Five immortals congratulating the birthday”(Figure.8)is a vivid example of borrowing. According to The Book of History, “Five luckiness is longevity, fortune, health, kindness and natural death in old age”, the pattern with five bats which in Chinese sounds similar to “luckiness in every corner “represents five luckiness surrounding the character
of”longevity”in a circle or a string style, depicting a picture of harmonious and prosperous world. Another example in the lucky pattern “People with four happiness”( Figure 9), first let’s have a look at what’s the four happiness, they are receiving timely help, meeting old friend far away from one’s
hometown, getting married and passing the entrance examination.