Wood carvings: Chinese wood carving art originated in the Neolithic period, more than seven thousand years ago, Yuyao, Zhejiang Hemudu Site has carved wood products. The two dynasties of the Qin and Han Dynasties wood carving technology matures. Colored wood carving marks the ancient wood craft reached a fairly high level. Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, which is often referred to as "folk art" in our country ". Wood can be divided into three-dimensional sculpture, carving, relief three class. Wood carving is a type of work which is separated from the carpenter. In our country, the type of work is "Fine Woodworking" ". A variety of folk art in the classification of carving materials. General selection of fine texture and tough, not easy to deformation of species such as Phoebe, rosewood, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, aloes, rosewood, longan etc.. The natural form of the root carving art is "root carving". There are wood carvings, reliefs, Loudiao or several techniques and. Some color Shi CAI to protect and beautify wood.
Boxwood carvings: boxwood carvings are boxwood carving crafts folk as raw materials, mainly in Yueqing City, Zhejiang province. Boxwood grow slowly, so there is an old saying: the Millennium difficult long boxwood. But because the wood is tough and smooth, fine texture, color yellow as ivory, long color deepened, simple appearance, moderate hardness, good material is a small sculpture sculpture. The earliest boxwood carving crafts as a separate, for people to appreciate the desk, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, boxwood carving has formed an independent art style, and its close to society in a lively style and portray vivid and popular content theme mostly Chinese folk myths and legends in character. In the late Qing Dynasty after the boxwood carvings with its ancient carvings of small and elegant color, delicate and smooth production process, suitable for lighting and furnishings and other characteristics, has been loved by collectors. Yueqing Dongyang wood carving and wood carving, stone carving Qingtian, known as "Zhejiang three birds".
Source: according to legend, the boxwood boxwood carvings in the Qing Dynasty a man named Ye Chengrong cowboy invention. Ye Chengrong is one of the people in Yueqing County, Zhejiang. One day, he was playing in the village of temple, the temple has seen an old man plastic Buddha, he was attracted by the old skills. He simply ran out of the temple, the cow tied to the tree, and dug a very sticky mud, sitting in the temple, secretly learning to pile plastic. The old man is a famous folk artist, see Ye Chengrong is smart, he will receive the apprentice, teaching him round plastic, clay sculpture, color, gold and relief five skill. He made rapid progress, and one year later, he mastered this skill. One day, Ye Chengrong in Yueqing County, Taishan Bao Zijin concept of plastic Buddha, the Taoist concept of folding a boxwood and asked him to use a wishful Bob boxwood carvings. In the process of carving, Ye Chengrong found boxwood wood tough, delicate texture, color and luster of the wood are less than the other, is a good material for carving. From then on, he began to use the boxwood carvings. In this way, China folk art in the garden of boxwood wood was born. Ye Chengrong in the Qing Dynasty twenty years before and after work as Lao, is the first piece of masterpieces of modern Wenzhou boxwood carving. After this, ye Jia Yi be handed down from age to age.
Dongyang wood carving art of Han folk, named for Zhejiang produced in Dongyang, "Dongyang wood" and "Qingtian stone" and "carving" and "Ou plastic" and called "Zhejiang three carving of a plastic". Known as the hometown of Chinese wood carvings in Dongyang, Zhejiang, there are more than a thousand years of history of Dongyang wood carvings, is a graphic relief based sculpture art. Its multi-level relief, scattered point of perspective, the decoration of the plane, to form its own distinctive features. Because of light color, natural color and texture preserving wood, elegant style, also known as the "white wood" (shown with wood natural color, different from the Tang Dynasty, Yu Caihui) has been more than a thousand years of history, is the nation's most outstanding folk arts, known as "national treasure". According to the literature, the process of Dongyang wood carving began in the Tang Dynasty, developed in the Song Dynasty, Sheng Yu Ming and Qing two generations. Dongyang wood carving in the performance theme also has a very wide, figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, animals, fish, and decorative content with historical story has also started the Dongyang woodcarving.
Wood material: Dongyang wood carving with kinds of strict election materials, basswood, white peach wood, camphor wood, wood and other materials of Dongyang ginkgo wood raw materials mainly camphor wood, pine, poplar hill, cedar, also useful rosewood (rosewood), Fraxinus mandshurica, metasequoia, yew, Taiwan spruce, pine.