Chinese traditional folk techniques of nuclear carving

Folk miniature carving craft. Peach kernel, apricot kernel, olive kernel and other fruit kernels and walnuts carved into crafts. Folk carving with peach kernel, perforated hanging on the body as "warding off evil spirits". There are made of pendants, fan pendant, beads, etc. for the literati to play. Its art is characterized by smaller kernels on the performance of complex subjects, carving techniques are also meticulous. Carved with poems or fishermen's music, baskets of flowers, luohan and other subjects. Jiangsu Suzhou, Yangzhou; Shandong Weifang, Guangdong and other places have nuclear carving, more characteristic.

Nucleus carving artists, but conclusively seen in the writings of the earliest nucleus carving works, is the Ming Dynasty. The Qing secret collection" records the Ming dynasty during the Xuande years a called summer white eyes, "can carve sixteen dolls on the olive kernel, eyebrows, joy and anger all have. Or carve the mother of nine chi dragons, lotus nine heron, its coiled flexing fly away in a delicate state, into a small core in a square inch". Ming Wei Xueping made "nuclear boat", describing the Ming dynasty Tianqi years Yushan (now Suzhou Changshu) nuclear carving artist Wang Yi (word Shuyuan) olive nuclear boat "Dongpo Chibi tour", the characters vivid, boat rows like a picture, stop the L text after the establishment of new China was selected into the secondary school textbooks. Ming Dynasty Wang Shuyuan carved peach kernel, Xing Xianzhi carved walnuts, Xia Baiye carved olive kernels can be called the three best of the nuclear carving, its works are rare. Qing Dynasty Qiu Shan nuclear carving skillful, works are also few. Late Qing nuclear carving artist Yang Zhishan walnut carving "West Garden Gallery" for its masterpieces, forests and trees at the sparsely populated, between the strange stone jagged, but also carved three groups of characters **** 19 people, the subtle subtlety of the marvels is amazing. Born in the Guangxu years of nuclear carving artists are Guilan skills, Premier Zhou Enlai 1955 visit, gifts to foreign heads of state in its nuclear carving works. 1957 former Soviet leader Voroshilov visited China, all Guilan was 75 years old, at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is still engraved with the nuclear carving gift. Nuclear carving generations of heirs, Suzhou, Jiangsu Chen Suying, that is, after all Guilan another nuclear carving master.