Granny Wang Lanban's husband is an expert apple grower. He was the first man in northern Shaanxi to grow apples there some 60 years ago. Theirs was the first apple orchard on the Loess Plateau. Granny Wang's paper-cut "Apple orchard" depicts consecutive scenes from spring ploughing in the orchard; to apple transplanting and autumn harvesting and packaging into baskets. It covered
all seasons, including different time and space and the entire production process. However, she still felt something missing. She was finally satisfied by adding on the top a dragon, a phoenix, and some small animal figures. Including unrelated animals like phoenix and dragon would be unthinkable in creative art of a fixed visual space and time. With folk artists, the art is to create and display a urreal world of the universe. They can add in their works anything from heaven to earth, from flower, grass to animals, to make it full of vigor and life.
