Wood carving culture has a long history. What makes woodcarving culture immortal for thousands of years?

Because woodcarving art is a treasure in the treasure house of China culture and art, and it is one of the representative forms of traditional folk art in China. It has a strong historical and cultural background, rich subject types and full cultural implications. Landscape, scenery and other works pin their emotions on it and praise the great mountains and rivers of the motherland.

Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, which is often called "folk craft" in China. China woodcarving has a long traditional history and strong national traditional colors, including simple modeling, skillful and smooth knife work and clear and bright lines. No matter which historical period woodcarving art is in, it is always integrated with the source of spiritual traditional culture, expressing different meanings and telling different emotional worlds.

Deep historical and cultural background

China woodcarving has a long history. As early as the primitive society, many woodcarving handicrafts had been formed. More than 7,000 years ago, a woodcarving fish was unearthed at Hemudu Cultural Site in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, which is the earliest preserved object in the history of woodcarving in China. The woodcarving town wooden beast unearthed from the Warring States Tomb in Xinyang, Henan, and the colored plastic woodcarving figurines unearthed from the Yunmeng Han Tomb in Hubei are all early woodcarving works in China.

In the history of China, the continuous emergence of woodcarving works in various dynasties and the continuous enrichment of theme types have important cultural significance of the times and are a true portrayal of the common people's code of conduct, values, living standards and social outlook.

Rich theme types, full of cultural connotations

China's woodcarving works have different historical significance in different historical periods. Woodcarving artists integrate morality, values and outlook on life into specific woodcarving creation through rich themes, exquisite carvings and distinctive themes, which reproduces the essence of real life and makes woodcarving art one of the artistic means to inherit and display national traditional culture. The theme of wood carving art is mostly the content of folk life, which is universal, generally including auspicious patterns, myths and legends, opera figures, flowers and birds in landscapes, folk customs and so on.

1. Build a picture through auspicious elements and place good wishes on it. In the long history and profound cultural accumulation of the Chinese nation, traditional auspicious elements are the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation and contain profound culture, thoughts and emotions. China traditional auspicious patterns have unique historical culture and folk customs. These elements convey important cultural information and constitute the theme, artistic conception, atmosphere and implication of the pattern.

2. Educate the public with characters, legends and stories, folk customs and other topics.

Landscape, scenery and other works repose emotions and praise the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

Taking landscape scenery as the theme is also a way for woodcarving artists to express their patriotism. China woodcarving art constantly creates new artistic images in the process of inheritance and development. However, its inner spirit and cultural implication have not changed, and it has always been the unique momentum and temperament of the Chinese nation. As an artist in the new era, he still has not abandoned the essence of the traditional culture of the motherland, but has deeply understood the connotation and implication of culture, sought the convergence point between traditional culture and modern techniques, and eclectically created an artistic form that conforms to the aesthetic concept of modern people.

To sum up, because of the profound meaning of woodcarving culture and people's attachment to woodcarving culture, woodcarving culture will be immortal for thousands of years.