What is hollowing out?

Hollow out is a carving technique. The outside looks like a complete pattern, but the inside is empty or inlaid with small hollow objects.

In contemporary times, the word hollowing is being used more widely. Fashion uses this to express knitting or cutting technology, and hollow fashion is synonymous with transparency and sexiness. Many international famous brands have their own classic hollow styles, which are deeply loved by fashion people.

One of the traditional decorative techniques of ceramics. Refers to the through-carving pattern on the ceramic blank. Five thousand years ago, pottery in the late Neolithic period was decorated with carved round holes. The thin-walled black pottery handle cup unearthed in Dawenkou, Shandong Province has a variety of hollow patterns on the handle. All kinds of ceramic aromatherapy from Han dynasty to Wei and Jin dynasties have through-carved patterns; After the Song Dynasty, hollow decoration developed day by day; When Qingganlong (1736- 1795) was fired, the works of hollowing out the center, turning the neck and hollowing out the bottle group reached their peak.

This carving technology is also widely used in stone carving, jade carving, wood carving, ivory carving and other artistic carving fields, and even fruit carving and flour carving are also widely used.

The carving of hollow core carving is the most critical stage of creation, which requires the author's knife skills, the treatment of lines and surfaces, and the changes of various modeling methods to meet the needs of the theme content, so that the meaning, shape and knife can be organically integrated.

At the same time, the flexible use of expressions such as punching, scraping, cutting and scraping, as well as rich oriental artistic language, in the form of density and truth, Fiona Fang's frustration, interweaving and thickness change, show exquisite artistic effects, which makes the works have a sense of rhythm and appeal, and become Yingying treasures.