Baicheng Baifei Non -Heritage List | Leqing Yangwu woodcarving: carving art with strong folk characteristics

Leqing Yangwu woodcarvings are a kind of ornamental round carving art based on the poplar wood. , Yongjia, Hangzhou, Shanghai and other places.

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Leqing Yangwang woodcarvings have begun to show during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which had an impact during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China, with the expansion of handicrafts and traditional crafts products, the improvement of production technology, a number of artistic products of Yueqing Yangwu woodcarving appeared.

According to Gao Gongbo, a master of Chinese arts and crafts and the national representative inheritance of Yueqing Boycake, Leqing Yangwu woodcarving has evolved into Leqing Yangwu woodcarving through the production of artists sculpture and woodcarving characters on the dragon file. Art, retaining to this day. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Yueqing Yangwu woodcarving, on the basis of the original traditional woodcarving sculptures, has added "Yang Yang root carving", "Yang Yang split carving", "Yang Yangyi carving" and so on. Its artworks are continuously expanded, making this ancient folk technique show unlimited charm and attract social attention and love.

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Leqing Huang Yang woodcarvings include mud composition, material selection, rough type, solid gray fixing, luminous carving, glittering sand, refined engravings, paint on the light, and the bottom of 9 production processes and processes. "Among them, knocking is a key process, because it involves the overall effect of the woodcarving image, only to master this skill, other techniques are easy to mature." Gao Gongbo said.

Talking about the characteristics of Yueqing's poplars, Gao Gongbo said that the Yueqing Yellow and Popular wood sculptures have strong local folk characteristics. The yangwu wood has a tough texture and delicate texture. The color is from shallow to deep with the age, which has a collection value. Among them, the Yangwu woodcarvings are in the Jiangnan area where the mountains come by, so the carved texture of the "cloud flowing water" caught has virtually become a folk art characteristics describing the character image.

On May 20, 2006, the Yueqing Weeping Wood Carving was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

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Responsible editor: Hao Gongzi

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