Fuzhou's special handicrafts

Traditional craft with Fuzhou characteristics: Shoushan stone carving is a kind of handicraft carved from Shoushan stone produced in Shoushan Village, the northern suburb of Fuzhou. It is famous for its precious materials, rigorous composition, exquisite carving and dazzling, and it is one of the famous arts and crafts in China.

Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware is firm and light in texture, exquisite in decoration, bright in color and durable, with unique national style and strong local characteristics. Together with Beijing Cloisonne and Jiangxi Jingdezhen Porcelain, it is also called the "three treasures" of China traditional crafts. The production methods of bodiless lacquerware are divided into bodiless lacquerware and wood lacquerware. A green tire is a green tire made of clay, gypsum, wood mold, etc. And then put it on the green tire layer by layer with summer cloth (linen) or silk and raw lacquer. After drying in the shade, it is broken or taken off from the original tire, leaving the shape of lacquer cloth. After dust removal, polishing, painting and various decorative patterns, it becomes a bright and gorgeous "bodiless paint". Wood tires are mainly hardwood such as nanmu, camphor wood and beech wood, which are directly painted without bodiless. The process is the same as the bodiless cloth blank. There are as many as forty or fifty processes in a handicraft, and some even reach more than one hundred. In the past, bodiless lacquerware was made entirely by hand, but now machines have been used for printing and painting.

Lacquer grinding painting is a painting with lacquer as pigment, using lacquer craft techniques, especially the decorative techniques of Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware, which is a unique arts and crafts in Fuzhou.

Cork painting is made of cork tree cortex imported from Europe, Spain, Portugal and other countries, sliced into thin slices, carved with small profits and quick knives, and bonded into trees, flowers, pavilions, corridors, water trees, trestle boats and figures of different shapes. Also, birds and animals such as cranes and peacocks are made into semi-three-dimensional or three-dimensional carved pictures with tetrapods.

Fuzhou horn comb is a comb made of horn, which is beautiful in appearance and durable. Its teeth are tough, smooth, lint-free, decontamination-free, itching-free and painless. It is a unique handicraft in Fuzhou and is deeply loved by tourists.

Fuzhou paper umbrella, one of the three treasures in Fuzhou, has more than 80 processes. Traditional craft can be divided into five parts: making umbrella ribs, making umbrella, umbrella head, umbrella handle and painting flowers. The person who can accomplish one of them is "complete art", and some people have never heard of all five arts.

Fuzhou Lantern Festival has a long history. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Fuzhou became one of the top ten cities in China where lanterns were popular. On the occasion of the Lantern Festival, people will be particularly active in making, buying, appreciating and passing lanterns.