Women from the Loess Plateau created a wide range of sophisticated paper-cut series featuring patron-saint and propagation-saint "Baby with coiled hair." When there was flood from continuous pouring rain, they had paper-cut "Sweeping wife" or "Sweeping mother" holding broom in one hand and a dust pin in the other to sweep away the clouds; during a time of drought, "Baby with coiled hair" was pasted with head down on the water vat to pray for rain; in case of sickness, "Spirit calling baby;" "Fairies from five paths," and "Sun
flower seeds doll" in yellow paper were pasted on the lintel to drive away ghosts and vicious spirits. To pray for more children at wedding was to put out paper-cuts "Happy baby;" "Lotus flower baby;" and "Pomegranate baby," etc.
