What are the three treasures of Fujian?

Fuzhou arts and crafts has a long history, exquisite craftsmanship, is one of the key production areas of China's arts and crafts, Fuzhou off-varnish lacquer and Beijing cloisonné, Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain and known as China's handicrafts "three treasures", off-varnish lacquer and comb, paper umbrellas known as the "Fuzhou three treasures! "

Today, the lacquer ware has blossomed into the oddball - grinding lacquer painting, and Shoushan stone carving, cork painting is also known as the "Yung City three greats".

Fuzhou off-peel lacquerware originated from the Ming Dynasty carved lacquer. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736-1795), it was created by Shen Shaoan (1767-1835), a lacquer artist, and is a product of the combination of the skill of stripping lacquer and the art of lacquer painting. The texture is light and firm, the shape is simple and elegant, the color is bright and vivid, and the texture is clear and beautiful, making it a style of its own.

Shoushan stone carving for carving stone produced in the northern suburbs of the Shoushan Mountain and named, the stone stone quality fat and moist, crystalline as jade, colorful, to "Tianhuang Jelly", "silver embedded in gold" is particularly valuable. Landscape scenery, flowers, plants, fish and insects, figures, animals and other furnishings to appreciate the goods, but also stationery, seals, smoking, vases and other practical items. Ming and Qing dynasties were tribute.

Cork paintings Republic of China in 3 years (1914) trial, and then in the suburbs of Xiyuan Township greatly developed. To southern Europe, northern Europe and Arabia and other properties of the soft, flexible, elastic cork oak bark as a material, with a thin sharp knife as a pen, the use of relief, round carving, carving and other techniques, carving into flowers, plants and trees, pavilions and pavilions, bridges and boats and people, and then use the grass made of white cranes, peacocks, deer and other birds and animals, according to the design of the picture, glued to the liner, with the establishment of a three-dimensional, semi-stereoscopic wooden paintings, mounted in a glass frame, it became a unique work of art. The artwork is unique.

Fuzhou horn comb is characterized by even teeth, straight and smooth, clean and not stained, combing hair and not hanging hair, durable, best-selling far and near. As a traditional brand-name product, it has a history of more than 700 years. In the Centennial Progress Exposition held in the United States in 22 years of the Republic of China, it won the gold medal together with the lacquer ware and paper umbrella, and was known as the "Three Treasures of Fuzhou". The raw materials are selected from the horns of "Southern Cattle" (Southern Buffalo and Yellow Cattle) and "Northern Sheep" (Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia Sheep), which are finely processed through 25 procedures.

Fuzhou paper umbrellas have a history of nearly 1,000 years, imported from the Central Plains in the late Tang Dynasty, and then gradually formed a unique style. The craftsmanship is exquisite, the shape is beautiful, lightweight and durable, and the local color is rich. The umbrella bone is made of old bamboo from deep mountains, which is strictly protected against moth, mildew and corrosion, and coated with black lacquer; and the umbrella surface is made of special cotton paper, which is refined through a number of processes, such as moth-proofing, paper pasting, flower painting, oiling, and assembling, etc. The umbrellas are also made of high quality cotton paper, which is used in the manufacture of the umbrellas.

The lacquer painting uses lacquer as pigment, and utilizes the techniques of lacquer ware, especially the decorative techniques of Fuzhou's decalcified lacquer ware, to paint and grind the paintings layer by layer, which is a unique art and craft in Fuzhou. On the basis of traditional lacquer painting techniques, Fuzhou lacquer painting is made by combining the production methods of local decalcified lacquer wares, organically combining "painting" and "grinding", so that the paintings produced are characterized by bright and deep tones, strong three-dimensionality, and smooth and glossy surfaces, etc.

This is a unique art craft of Fuzhou.