Sun Pu-fei taught herself the art of paper cutting more than 10 years ago when she went with her husband to live in the Middle East where he had been posted on assignment. At that time, a museum in the town where they were living held a show of mainland Chinese paper cuttings, and the curator invited Sun to view it.
十幾年前，孫步霏隨夫在中東服務。有一回當地博物館舉行「中共民俗剪紙展」，館長邀她去參觀。