The introduction of clay and wood carving let you fully understand the "carving" culture

Introduction: We all know that mud sculpture wood sculpture refers to the idol made of mud and wood carving. Metaphorically speaking, people's expression and behavior is dull. With the loss between and the progress of the times. Also did not properly and truly to understand the original meaning and essence of mud and wood carving. We usually come into contact with the idiom of mud and wood carving, and know only the meaning of this idiom. Originally, mud and wood carving is an ancient craft, now evolved into idioms, want to know more about the content of mud and wood carving, follow the editor to learn it!

Mud sculpture

Mud sculpture, that is, the use of clay to make a variety of images of a folk craft. It is an ancient and common Han folk art in China. It is made of clay as raw material, handmade into shape, or vegetarian or color, to the characters, animals. In folklore, commonly known as "color sculpture", "mud play". It originated in Fengxiang County, Baoji City. It is popular in Shaanxi, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Henan, etc. In 2006, it was selected as China's intangible cultural heritage. Category:Folk Art.

China's clay art can be traced back to the Neolithic period 4,000 to 10,000 years ago. Prehistoric culture underground archaeology has been found in many places. Zhejiang Hemudu culture site unearthed ceramic pig, ceramic sheep time is about 6,000 to 7,000 years ago or so; Henan Xinzheng Pei Ligang culture site unearthed ancient pottery wells and clay pig, clay sheep head time is about 7,000 years ago. It can be confirmed that it is the early human hand-kneaded artwork.

Wood carving

Wood carving is a separate type of carpentry, in our country's classification of work as "fine woodworking". Folk art varieties categorized by carving materials. Generally choose the texture of fine and tough, not easy to deform the tree species such as nanmu, rosewood, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, incense, mahogany, longan etc.. 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 also painted color to protect the wood and beautification.

The art of wood carving originated in China during the Neolithic period, more than 7,000 years ago in Zhejiang Province, Yuyao Hemudu culture, wood carving fish has appeared. Qin and Han Dynasties wood carving technology tends to mature, painting and carving technology is exquisite and perfect. The appearance of Shi color wood carving, marking the ancient wood carving process has reached a fairly high level.

The Tang Dynasty was a period of great splendor in China's craftsmanship, wood carving technology is also becoming more and more perfect. Many of the preserved wood carvings of the Buddha, is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese art, with the shape of condensed, knife skillful and smooth, clear and bright lines of the craft characteristics, become today's art market at home and abroad on the "favorite". The Ming and Qing dynasties of wood carvings of the subject matter, mostly for life customs, myths, such as the auspicious celebration of surplus, grains, dragon and phoenix, peace and prosperity, pine and crane and other wood carvings, popular with the community at that time.

The types of wood carving is complex, the major schools after hundreds of years of development, the formation of their own unique style of craftsmanship, renowned throughout the country, Dongyang wood carving was born in the Song Dynasty in Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, specializing in carving, beautiful patterns, delicate structure. During the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, known as the "hometown of carving" in the Dongyang area, there are more than 400 craftsmen were called to the capital, repairing the palace; Yueqing poplar wood carving from the mid-Qing dynasty has become one of China's folk wood carving crafts to carve small poplar wood furnishings and is famous at home and abroad; Guangdong gold lacquer wood carving originated in the Tang dynasty, which is carved with camphor wood, then Lacquer and gold, brilliant, with a strong artistic effect.

Through the above understanding. We know that the clay sculpture, that is, a folk handicraft with clay molded into a variety of images. It is an ancient and common Han folk art in China. And we played with mud as a child, and then pinched into a variety of shapes this is actually a clay sculpture. There is also wood carving,? 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. Our Chinese culture is profound and far-reaching, and there are many more things we need to explore.