What are the traditional crafts in Ningbo?

Ningbo's traditional craft is bred in deep accumulation. Such as bone and wood inlay, gold and silver colored embroidery, clay and gold colored paint, Zhu Jin wood carving, Yong style furniture, etc. , exquisite materials, exquisite workmanship and unique style.

Bone and wood inlay:

Traditional craft. Its history can be traced back to the Sui and Tang Dynasties more than 1000 years ago, and the bone and wood inlay in the Ming Dynasty was mainly used for furniture carving. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Ningbo's bone and wood mosaic technology was famous for its unique local style and exquisite skills, and was listed as a "tribute". The manufacturing methods are divided into high inlay, flat inlay and mixed inlay. High inlay uses ivory, boxwood, bamboo yellow, wax stone and so on as raw materials for surface decoration, and is embedded in the wood blank after sawing. Plane inlay is made of ivory, bone chips, Luodian, sawdust, etc. , according to the pattern on the drawing embedded in the wood blank, and then hook with a carving knife. Mosaic composition can be divided into "Danqing painting" and "antique painting". The former is similar to genre painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties, while the latter is similar to Han painting. Its content is to express auspiciousness, longevity and wealth, with figures, landscapes and flowers and birds as the theme, and its products include beds, chairs and kitchens.

Zhu Jin woodcarving:

Traditional craft. Also known as lacquer gold woodcarving. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the craft production had reached a higher level. On the basis of wood carving products, it looks magnificent with vermilion as the base and decorated with gold. Wood carving uses high-quality wood such as camphor wood, basswood, ginkgo, etc. According to different objects, it is carved in relief, through carving and round carving. The theme is mostly based on drama stories, with simple and vivid modeling and profound knife skills. Some are exquisite and realistic, and some are rough. Zhu Jin woodcarving is mainly used in temples, temples, ancestral halls and other buildings, as well as wooden beds, sedan chairs and other large furniture and statues.

Clay gold paint:

Traditional craft. The history of lacquer ware in Ningbo can be traced back to Hemudu culture 7000 years ago, and the name of "clay gold" began in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Its practice is to grind gold foil into powder, mix it with paint, or coat or fill it. Lacquerware is mainly made of wooden tires, but also made of bamboo chips and bamboo braids. Cinnabar and black are the basic colors of lacquerware. There are three traditional methods to make decorative patterns: sink lines in transparent paint film, plain lines on the surface of paint film, and floating lines embedded on the surface of paint film. Floating lines technology is a representative technique in traditional crafts of Ningbo lacquerware. The decoration of lacquerware is mainly made of gold, such as tracing gold, pasting gold, piling gold, chasing gold, opening gold and Ping Jin. The themes are flowers and birds, scenic figures and auspicious patterns.

Gold and silver embroidery:

Also known as "antique color", it is a fine product in traditional Yong embroidery. Yong embroidery, Xiang embroidery, Su embroidery, Jing embroidery, Yue embroidery and Shu embroidery are called the six famous embroideries in China. Gold and silver colored embroidery takes all kinds of silk fabrics as raw materials, and is made of gold thread and silver thread around colored embroidery and plain embroidery patterns. Antique and magnificent. The background color is mainly dark, mainly dark red, dark blue, dark green, dark black, rust red, brown and so on. The production process can be divided into three categories: net embroidery, gold embroidery and gold embroidery. The theme is dragons and phoenixes, flowers and beautiful birds. Mainly used for embroidered clothes, cushions, tablecloths, bedspreads, soft bags and other daily necessities.

Straw mat: known as open mat in ancient times, also known as Yong mat, commonly known as "mat" It is made of mat grass rich in Huanggulin, Xixiang, Ningbo, with white hemp or green hemp as warp. Ningbo straw mat is precise in texture, thick and brittle, rigid and elastic, soft and slippery, capable of dissipating heat and cooling, convenient to collect and durable, and can be used for bedding, packaging and hanging doors and windows.

Straw hat:

This area is good at weaving straw hats, and the golden straw hat woven in Changhe Township, Cixi, the hometown of straw weaving, is the best. It is light as a cloud, bright as snow, beautiful and practical. After bleaching, dyeing, embroidery and decoration, it can be matched with fashion, which is not only a practical sunshade, but also a decorative handicraft. According to the raw materials, there are many kinds of straw hats 10, such as golden silk, wheat straw, Vitca, salty grass, mat grass, Chinese alpine rush, yellow grass, cockscomb grass, papyrus, day lily leaves, Lefebner grass, etc. The annual output exceeds 20 million. Except for more than 5 million straw hats, most of them are semi-finished products, and the hats are designed and matched according to popular clothes abroad.

Ningbo bamboo weaving:

Ningbo is the hometown of bamboo weaving, and Siming Mountain is rich in bamboo. Historically, bamboo was used to weave all kinds of simple and practical baskets, reeds, reeds, baskets and cages. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the examination baskets and vegetable baskets of Jiangnan people who went to Beijing to take exams were all made of bamboo. At present, there are dozens of bamboo weaving factories run by villages in Yinzhou, Fenghua and Yuyao. Workers make good use of silk and wood chips to skillfully weave all kinds of cool and interesting animals, and combine them with traditional cans, baskets, boxes and plates to make chicken cans, duck plates and owl boxes.