JossPaperCatalog app for iPhone and iPad

In the chinese culture, Joss Paper plays a contradiction role. In one side, it shows our fear to supernatural power, in the other, it shows the missing to our passed families.

This Joss Paper Catalog have varies and valuable words and pics inside, we introduce the history of Joss Paper, the flow of making Joss Paper, and the most important, the collections of Joss Papers. We wish there are more and more people to understand the Joss Paper is not just a part of religion but also an important ring to connect the chinese fold arts.

民間生活領域中,金銀紙是一個五花八門的世界,不僅是人類對未知世界、超自然力量的敬畏,更富有濃濃的人情味。「金銀紙」是普民生活藝術,屬於民俗版畫,凡具歷史意義、年代久遠或珍品皆是值得收藏與交流買賣。

本製作圖錄收錄了金銀紙的歷史源流、製作過程以及珍貴的金銀紙文物,希望藉此讓更多人瞭解,金銀紙不只是宗教信仰的一部份,更是民間藝術中重要一個環節。