What kind of trees were used for woodcarving in Misaka Village in the late Qing Dynasty?

The trees used were nanmu, zitan, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, incense, mahogany and longan.

Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, often called "folk craft" in our country. Wood carving can be divided into three-dimensional round carving, root carving, relief carving three categories. Wood carving is separated from the carpentry of a type of work, in our country's classification of work for the "fine woodworking". Folk art varieties categorized by carving materials. Generally, we use trees with fine and tough texture, which are not easy to deform, such as nanmu, zitan, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, incense, redwood, longan, etc. We use natural forms of tree roots for carving. The natural form of the roots of the tree carving artwork is "root carving". Wood carving in the round, relief, openwork or several techniques and use. Some of them are also painted to protect and beautify the wood.

June 7, 2008, the State Council approved the inclusion of wood carving in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.