Western artists tend to utilize focused perspective, and the literati employ traditional prosaic perspective. Following a style different from either, with Chinese folk art, the art form is based on the perspective of original Chinese philosophy. Paper-cut "Rat eating oil," in which the oil jar is a metaphor of mother's body, and the rat a symbol of having a lot of children. However, the jar opening is an arc and the bottom is a straight level line. "A jar needs to sit on a flat surface,"explained the creator. Actually, in here the arc is likened to the sky and the bottom to earth; together it is a symbol of the universe with a round sky and a square earth. Unlike the cubism in Western modem art in which circles and squares are formed by geometry figures; Chinese folk art structure is counter perspective, which is based on the concepts of Chinese philosophy.
