What are the techniques of jade carving?

After countless jade carving craftsmen's attempts and tempering, today's jade carving technology presents ten characteristics. First, every jade carving work should start with the material, color and shape of jade raw materials, and make full use of jade materials while exerting imagination, especially in the creation of figures, flowers and birds, flowers and animals. Jade carving technology has a long history. With the progress of technology and the improvement of skills, craftsmen's performing arts skills based on materials are getting higher and higher, and their works are more colorful. Second, dig out the soil and get rid of it. Natural cracks in jade are formed by natural force impact, cold deformation and other factors, and have no certain shape, direction and law. When choosing and carving jade, we should first pay attention to the treatment of the grain, or saw off or hide the jade along the grain, and then design it according to the shape of the material. In the designed jade carving, lines ("lines" and "waterlines") may appear again, which requires jade carving craftsmen to further change their shapes. Third, turning a defect into a jade defect is originally a defect in jade, but natural and transparent jade materials are very scarce, and jade with slight defects must also be fully utilized, thus forming the carving process characteristics of "turning a defect into a jade". On the contrary, it will make the work more vivid and achieve the finishing touch. Fourth, the clever use of waste materials aims at cherishing jade resources and reducing the cost of works, so as to create jade carving crafts with the same value or higher value as the finished products. 5. Clever use of jade color is mainly green, with four colors of yellow, black, red and white. Some jadeites are variegated jadeites, and the colors of red, yellow, ink and green come together and are colorful. The rich color and jade quality of jade materials provide a good material foundation for the skillful use of pretty colors in production, and also make jade products more exquisite, vivid and vivid, which makes the world cherish them more. 6. Relief Relief relief is mainly used for vegetarian dishes, ovens, bottles and utensils. Refers to shaping or cutting an image on the floor of the carving plane. The outline of the body is similar to painting, with different convex and concave changes, and there is no limit to the form, mainly from the front. Jade carving works are antique, elegant and luxurious because of the relief of various patterns and patterns. Relief includes shallow relief, middle relief and deep relief. Seven, through carving relief step development into through carving. On the basis of shallow relief or deep relief, some parts are hollowed out, so that the outline of the image is more vivid and the works reflect exquisite and ingenious technical effects. The patterns of many through-carving works fluctuate up and down by two, three or even four layers, which makes the patterns and scenery staggered up and down, with different distances, reflecting excellent artistic effects. Eight, the round sculpture is a three-dimensional sculpture, also known as the "round sculpture". The jade works carved in circles are carefully carved on all sides, so they can be appreciated from any angle, and the proportion is just right. Round carving technology is widely used in simple life and jade carving works of characters. Nine, internal carving, internal carving refers to carving two or three layers of scenery on a piece of jade, the process is more complicated, and the industry calls it "unique skills." After 1970s, jade carving artists tried to explore the internal carving skills, and achieved breakthrough results, which filled the gap in this field. X. Thread combination Thread combination refers to the application of industrial thread and assembly technology in jade carving crafts. After the 1980s, large-scale jade carving products prevailed, and lines were introduced into jade articles, which made the production of large-scale jade carving more convenient and the effect was very ideal. Although the above processes are described separately, it is actually difficult to distinguish a work from a process in jade carving works. Most masterpieces are often a combination of various techniques, or focus on one technique and combine other techniques. This is the beauty of the boutique.