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Sculpture craftwork
Chaozhou gold lacquer woodcarving: Chaozhou wood carving, used in adorn of architecture and furniture, has a long history in our country, and vogue everywhere, it always one of art form which has the most intimate relation with vast crowd.
East Guangdong include Chanan, Jieyang, Chaoyang, Puning, Raoping and Chenghai, since Ming and Qing dynasty woodcarving art is very developed, owns obvious local feature, form its own system. Because several counties belong to Chaozhou, people used to call it ¡°Chaozhou woodcarving¡±.
In Chaozhou, ridge, eaves, ektexine, usually adorned with embed magne, brick-carving or stone carving; woodcarving installed in door, window, girder of front corridor, on furniture, big is screen tea table, bed, small is cabinet, chai r, smaller is lamp wick and canister, all adorned; and in the past, shrine, litter, food box, furnace cover, candle holder etc, even is the woodcarving craftsman show their skills. Chaozhou woodcarving use local wood; building adornment is more thick, generally adopt fir; furniture and utensil adornment more adopt camphor. Texture of camphor is not solid, craftsman take its advantage which is easy to cut, chisel to layer upon layer, exquisitely carved; after chisel gild, not only resplendent and moister-proof, not crack, distort or molder. Chaozhou woodcarving close related to every aspects of crowd life, more fit for need on emotion and taste. Its theme and content most from folk, fable, legend, drama and history which is deeply loved by the crowd, such as¡¶Beating stratagem¡·which is extol brevity and witness; ¡¶Lanfu snow¡·which is yearn worthy; ¡¶Chen Sanwu woman¡· which is appraise true love; also has direct reflect the society¡¶Fish, cut, furrow and read¡·¡¶Repair house¡·describe common work. Still have kinds of bird and flower, and to representation of submarine aquatic animals and sub-tropical plant, especially outstanding. As for daedal geometry grain, also represent infinitude wisdom and rich aesthetic feeling.
Extensive theme and content, complicate decoration requirement urge exploration and create various form and method, according to different theme, decoration part, or single, or alternate or synthesized flexibly exert various embossments, round carving, through carving, line chisel. Most representative and most excellent creation is that kind penetrate, hollow and multi-layer through carving. Through carving absorb some strongpoint of round carving, embossment, hidden chisel and painting, become a unique form. It good at relate a flexuous and complicate story in a picture in an orderly way; attend the clear and complete of narration, also attend simple summarize of sculpt; can give a clear impression at a glance, also can withstand careful admiration. Treatment of character and environment, also true, also false, not natural imitation, often use one door, one pole, one tree, one stone those simple image, make people reverie. Composition of a picture not restrict to perspective principle, character and some proper transmutation; not emphasize deep true feeling, pay attention to density even, interlude coupling, close; so to building and utensil, not only achieve upholster result, and, although refine , still keep its plane feeling, look apparently more firm.
Chaozhou woodcarving is one of our nation precious art heritages, to the development architecture, craftwork, carve and painting, will offer lots of benefit experience.
Chaozhou stone carving: Chaozhou stone  carving famous for produce stone in Sanpu Hill, although in recent years with the flow of stone material and quality exceed mainland so is replaced gradually. About famous Congxi ancestral temple ¡°Building belly¡± stone carving and stone flower on eave,already become ¡°Famous brand¡± of tour and visit.
Mouse, lichee, and grape stonecarving: 110 cm long, 38 cm high. Is made of green granite, former is component of Chaozhou ancient building. Handicraftsman adopt hollow as main and combine with embossment technique, carve a group of mouse climb in lichee and grape bosk to eat the fruit. Each shape is different, lifelike and interesting. Grapevine enlace, carver define and delicate, exquisitely carved, represent extractive tech of Chaozhou people, is extracts of Chaozhou stone carving.Guangdong folk craftwork museum stored.
Chaozhou jade carving:  In Ming dynasty, Chaozhou already has workshop that produce jade article. Chaozhou jade carving take south jade as main material, double Liaoning You jade, Hunan single jade and Canada jade. Product is simple and unsophisticated, main products have jewelry, character, bonsai, furnace, tea and wine set and bowl. Jade carving of Chaozhou is deeply adored by Hongkong and Macao fellowman, also hot sold in domestic tour market.
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