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Diancui is a traditional craft with our own characteristics?

Diancui craft is our own traditional craft.

Diancui is a traditional gold and silver jewelry making process in China, which has existed since the Han Dynasty. It is made into jewelry and handicrafts, such as fans and screens, with kingfisher feathers embedded in the metal base.

Diancui is an auxiliary work in jewelry making, which plays a role in embellishing and beautifying gold and silver jewelry. The jewelry made by Diancui Technology has good luster and bright colors. As long as it is protected during use, luster and color can be preserved for a long time. The development of Diancui craft reached its peak in the periods of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, and it was still very popular from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, but it gradually faded out of people's sight after the outbreak of the all-round anti-Japanese war.

Diancui process is a traditional gold and silver jewelry making process in China. It is an auxiliary work in jewelry making, which plays the role of embellishing and beautifying gold and silver jewelry.

Cui, that is, the feather of kingfisher. Diancui is the perfect combination of traditional metal craft and feather craft in China. First, the bases with different patterns are made of gold or gold-plated metal, and then the bright blue feathers on the kingfisher's back are carefully inlaid on the bases to make various jewelry objects.