What is the significance and value of root carving art?

Root carving has a long history. In China's traditional aesthetic view, nature has been advocated and studied since ancient times, and nature contains infinite beauty. Root carving art is an art created by exotic trees, which is a comprehensive embodiment of the high combination of natural aesthetics and technical aesthetics. Its beauty is the beauty of the unity of heaven and man, the beauty created together with heaven, and the beauty of the combination of natural creation and artificial processing. Rooted in the soil, the earth breeds and creates its natural and simple beauty. The beauty of Lingchuan root carving lies in its natural form, which resembles people, flowers and fruits. It lies in its natural structure, which is steep, rugged, layered, criss-crossed, rough and abrupt, and smooth and round; It lies in its colors, yellow, white, black and grayish white; It lies in its texture, like flowing clouds, like turbulence, like wisps of moss, like continuous drizzle.

"Nature is often the most ordinary and difficult to achieve", and the ultimate beauty of root carving art lies in the beauty of nature. If we can't keep the natural beauty of root carving art more, then the unique charm of root carving art will be greatly reduced. Root carving, taking the autogenous and distorted forms of roots, trunks and tumors as artistic creation objects, creates artistic image works such as figures, animals and utensils through conception, artistic processing and technical treatment. In the eyes and hands of the root carving master, these things presented in another life form are integrated and isomorphic, showing incisively and vividly.

Any art has its own creative rules. The creative principle of root carving art is to attach importance to nature and let nature take its course. First, we should be good at finding and discovering the roots of natural beauty. Then, in the whole processing process, we should express the author's feelings according to the natural form, structure, color, texture and charm of the roots, and use all possible processing means to maximize the natural beauty of the roots. The production of root carving can generally be divided into eight steps: degreasing, peeling and cleaning, dehydration and drying, shaping, finishing, tempering and quenching, coloring and painting, and naming. Create a charming artistic atmosphere with the form and style of integrating natural beauty and shaping, and create a magical artistic realm with a variety of expression techniques and techniques. Wang Chaowen, a famous aesthete, pointed out that all kinds of roots have strong vitality when discussing the art of root carving. On the premise of respecting the rich and diverse forms and interesting characteristics of raw materials, it conforms to nature and shows the works formed by creative processing. It has an artificial and more free creation, which is different from ordinary sculptures and is more enough to show the characteristics of raw materials and the natural and simple aesthetic value.

As a three-dimensional art, root carving breaks through the limitation of space, presents the beauty of "three points artificial, seven points natural" in a three-dimensional way, shows the wonders of nature in front of people, has a stronger visual impact, and makes people feel the breath of nature more appropriately. Genyi works strive for the combination of simplicity and charm, full of rich humanistic heritage, reflecting profound philosophical brilliance, full of interest, profound meaning, showing magic in silence and rich and vivid artistic expression.