What works of Chaoshan woodcarving in Qing Dynasty show that Chaoshan woodcarving art is in its heyday?

The Qing Dynasty was the heyday of Chaozhou woodcarving. After the Qing Dynasty, many temples and temples were built in Chaoshan area. According to the Records of Gan Long Prefecture, when a noble family builds a house, it must build a temple, which is especially magnificent. ..... If you have a daughter, you must build a study with carved beams and painted buildings and decorate it with bamboo on the terrace.

This trend has created conditions for the prosperity of Chaoshan woodcarving art.

Ancestral temples built in the early and middle Qing Dynasty include Xi Gu Grand Ancestral Temple in Jieyang, Mingluan Public Temple in Qiankeng in Jiexi, Guandi Temple in the north gate of Jiexi, Yongchang Ancient Temple in Mianhu in Jiexi, Juzu Public Temple in Yang Xia, etc. Comprehensive use of heavy carving, relief, round carving, general carving and other forms and techniques to express multi-level complex content.

Among them, the caissons of Guandi Temple in Jieyang North Gate and Yongchang Ancient Temple in Mianhu are well-preserved, beautifully carved and have many figures, which are the concentrated embodiment of Chaozhou woodcarving.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Congxi Gong Temple and Chaozhou Luhuang Gong Temple, built by Chen Xunian, a wealthy overseas Chinese in Caitang Jinsha Township, Chao 'an, are the representatives of the essence of Chaoshan woodcarving and stone carving.

During Guangxu period, a rare and exquisite half crab basket decorated by Seiryuji in Chaozhou came out. It is the work of Huang Kaixian, a native of Jieyang, who is known as the champion of wood carving, and created a precedent for the creation of Chaoshan wood carving crab baskets in later generations.

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