What national carving techniques are there?

National carving techniques include tooth carving, bamboo carving, charcoal carving, wood carving and fishbone carving. Tooth carving: refers to a series of carvings on ivory, which is an ancient traditional art and a folk arts and crafts. The teeth used in tooth carving are elephant's. Elephant's teeth are the strongest part of the elephant's body, smooth as jade and durable as gems, so ivory has the reputation of organic gems.

Bamboo carving: also known as bamboo carving, it is to carve various decorative patterns and characters on bamboo objects, or to carve various furnishings and ornaments with bamboo root carving. Bamboo carving is an art, which was gradually recognized and loved by people from the Six Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty.

Charcoal carving: it is made of high-quality activated carbon powder such as charcoal, shell charcoal and mineral charcoal and special minerals, with natural high-tech materials. After dozens of processes of deep processing, activated carbon is finely carved by traditional manual technology on the basis of maximizing its activity.

Woodcarving: It is a kind of sculpture and is often called "folk craft" in China. Wood carving can be divided into three categories: three-dimensional round carving, root carving and relief carving. Wood carving is a kind of work separated from carpentry, which is classified as "joinery" in China.