Qiang embroidery paper-cut reflects the life, thoughts, emotions and ideals of Qiang people, and is mainly used to beautify the room and avoid disasters and evil spirits. Its themes are mostly dragons and phoenixes, the sun and the moon, figures, birds and beasts and various geometric patterns.

Embroidered paper-cutting plays an important role in Qiang paper-cutting, and plays a great decorative role in dresses, headscarves, waists, necklines, sachets, straps, uppers, trouser legs and other parts.

It can be seen from the paper-cut as an embroidery base that the paper-cut of Qiang embroidery base inherits the essence of ancient Qiang culture and carries rich connotations in rich imagination and emotional expression.