What is the main color of Beijing ancient carved lacquer products?

The colors of ancient carved lacquer products in Beijing are mainly green and red.

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Qi Diao is an ancient local traditional handicraft. It began in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Different from ordinary lacquerware. Generally speaking, lacquerware is mainly expressed by painting on the lacquer tire or painting a layer of lacquer after carving flowers on the lacquer ware, and some are inlaid with lacquer color or painted with patterns and patterns. Products are mainly indoor furniture.

Qi Diao is not like this. It is good at carving. Paint the tire with dozens to hundreds of layers of paint with the thickness of 15 ~ 25mm, and then carve it with a knife, so it is called "Qi Diao". Carved lacquer in history books can also be called "picking red", which is a conventional saying, because in ancient lacquer products, red and green are the main colors.

Qi Diao technology is a technology that paints a tire with a certain thickness of natural paint, and then engraves patterns on the piled flat paint tire with a knife. Because of different colors, there are also different names such as "red", "black", "color" and "rhinoceros". Beijing carved lacquer has the characteristics of simple and solemn modeling, exquisite decoration, smooth color, elegant modeling, moisture resistance, heat resistance, acid and alkali resistance, no deformation and deterioration.

Qi Diao is an important category of lacquer art in China, and it is also one of the essences of traditional arts and crafts in Beijing. It embodies the superb skills and intelligence of China arts and crafts artists, and is a treasure of traditional crafts in China.

Like other traditional arts, Qi Diao has its own development and style evolution process. According to historical records, Beijing Qi Diao began in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to the only historical lacquer book in China, The Record of Beard Ornaments, which was annotated by famous painters Huang and Yang Ming in Ming Dynasty, recorded that there was a work of "picking red" in Tang Dynasty in China, and the knife method was quick, convenient and simple.

At that time, "tiaohong" was the main variety. In addition, there are black, yellow, green and so on. , all belong to the category of Qi Diao, but the colors and expressions are different.