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Peach carving is a traditional art form that uses peach stone as the carrier and makes various peach stone products by traditional handicraft carving. Peach carvings are widely spread in Du Yun Village and its surrounding areas in Siyang County, Jiangsu Province. It originated in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years.

In 2004, Du Yun's peach carving was included in the pilot project of provincial-level national folk culture protection, and in 2009, it was included in the first batch of Jiangsu intangible cultural heritage list expansion projects, and it is being applied for the national intangible cultural heritage list.

Main work

There are three series of peach carvings:

Bead string: A series of peach blossom stone carvings are connected in a string, including 108 flower and bird beads, 18 arhat, 9 double-sided carved arhat, 12 flower and bird bracelets and 12 zodiac bracelets.

Pendant style: mainly single (less than many) peach carvings, with Chinese knots and wearing, can be hung on clothes, folding fans and hilts, and is mostly used as mobile phone pendants. Pendant peach carvings mainly include peach locks, peach baskets, zodiac signs, figures, flowers and birds, landscapes and so on.

Display style: mainly suitable for collectors and handicraft lovers, who put them on display cases and antique shelves for people to enjoy. The main works of peach carving are Crossing the Sea by Eight Immortals and Tasting Tea in Yuchuan.

Peach carving is undoubtedly one of the traditional crafts with local characteristics (Suqian characteristic culture) in China. It not only embodies the creative wisdom of workers to turn waste into treasure, but also embodies the manual skill ability of Du Yun's peach carving artists. However, the spread and development of Du Yun's peach carving is not smooth sailing. In addition to suffering from the war, in that unprecedented era, peach trees in Du Yun village were cut down on a large scale to grow food, and thousands of hectares of ancient peach trees that had grown for hundreds of years were destroyed.

Peach carving skills are facing the situation of endangered skills and lack of successors. It is of great significance to promote the development of traditional arts and crafts, rescue, protect and inherit the traditional heritage of Duyun peach carving, improve the brand and popularity of Duyun peach carving, popularize folk art, and social and economic development and cultural undertakings.