Crafts ornaments wood carving ornaments--Putian carving

Putian wood carving in the Tang and Song dynasties, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, known as the "subtle carving".

The beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the temple's architectural decoration, statues, scriptures, etc. has been the prototype of the carving process; the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Putian carved figures, flowers and other subjects such as screen, balustrades, wood carvings of curiosities, musical instruments, furniture, etc., has been quite subtle and vivid; the Ming Dynasty, Putian specializes in the round carving of the statues of the Buddha, flat carvings of the architectural decorations, etc..

China's largest wood carving craft industry location.

Precious wood carvings occupy most of the domestic market volume.

Currently there are about 20W people engaged in the wood carving industry.

The main focus is on classical home furniture and small pieces of high-grade precious mahogany.

Putian carving process is Putian original carving techniques, the Palace Museum in Beijing still has a number of "gold carving lamp" and "relief carving window" and so on, all corroborate the Putian wood carving of the traditional craft charm.

During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Putian wood carvings were made from locally produced longan wood.

Putian woodcarvings were carved into various kinds of military generals, ladies or statues of gods and goddesses, and curiosities, and supplemented with old lacquer paint to make the works more colorful and deep.

Famous craftsmen such as Zhu Bongshou, Huang Dangui, Chen Xiange and others with the famous painter Liu Ronglin, rubbed into the Chinese painting master Li Geng's figure painting rhyme, forming a round carving figure style characterized by the Putu-style military generals modeling, so far, in the Jiangkou Town, under the village of the Garden Guandi Temple and other temples, Wutang Town, the Nine peaks of the village of the Fang's Nine compartments of the old houses have left a lot of figures and architectural decorative wood carvings for the enjoyment of posterity, which are round, transparent, relief carving These round, transparent and relief carvings are the treasures of Putian wood carving art.