The folk paper-cut works of Yu county are composed of wide and thin lines after hollowed. A slight move in one part may affect the whole paper. It is a careful job to preserve the paper-cut well. Here are several methods:

A. Preserve the black-and-white paper-cut: If the work is small, a simple method is to put the paper-cut in a book or magazine flatwise. If the paper-cut needs to be leafed through frequently, to avoid damage, we need to buy an album to preserve the paper-cut. But if you have bought an adhesive album and you are not willing to glue the paper-cut, you can separate the paper-cut and the adhesive with transparent cellophane.

B. Preserve the colored paper-cut: The main purpose of preserving the colored paper-cut is to avoid fading. So the material used for preserving the colored paper-cut is unsuitable to select the paper with strong Water-absorbing Capacity. We'd better choose copy paper or vitriolic paper for its extreme bad Water-absorbing Capacity. The color of the colored paper-cut will seldom be assimilated. Because those copy paper or vitriolic paper has preferable transparence, is more handsome to preserve paper-cut.

C. Preserve large paper-cut: It is unsuitable to preserve large paper-cut work by reeling it. The margin is easy to be damaged, which results in aesthetic problems. The ideal method is to nip the paper-cut flatwise with corrugated paper. With this method the paper-cut works will be intact when opening again. To preserve the paper-cut for a long time it need to avoid insect's bite. We can put some mothballs to avoid insect pest. We need to turn the paper-cut frequently to keep ventilative. In the drippy season we need to strengthen the dampproof measure.