The difference of woodcarving between Dongyang workers and Sichuan workers

Dongyang woodcarving is known as Dongyang, Zhejiang, the hometown of woodcarving in China, with a history of more than 1000 years. There are exquisite Dongyang woodcarvings in the Forbidden City in Beijing, Jiangsu, Hangzhou and Anhui. Dongyang woodcarving is a carving art mainly based on plane relief. Its multi-level relief, scattered perspective composition and plane decoration have formed their own distinctive characteristics. Because of its elegant color and elegant style, it retains the natural texture and color of logs. Also known as "white wood carving" (representing the natural color of wood, different from painting). It has a history of more than 1000 years since the Tang Dynasty. It is one of the best folk crafts of the Chinese nation and is known as the "national treasure".

Sichuan woodcarving mostly uses high-quality wood such as nanmu, pear, camphor, boxwood and cypress, which are abundant in the local area. It is carved by means of round carving, relief carving, hollow carving, etc., and then combined with natural mineral raw materials and gold foil, the statue is painted in red, green, yellow, blue, ink and other dark colors, which makes it vivid, lifelike and magnificent, giving people a strong artistic shock. Moreover, because the statue has been baptized by the vicissitudes of life, it is often broken and peeled off, losing its gold and color.