Weifang nuclear carving to what the main material

Weifang nuclear carving is a traditional Chinese folk miniature carving craft. Carved into crafts with peach kernels, apricot kernels, olive kernels and other fruit kernels and walnuts, it has been included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

The Weifang nuclear carving began around the end of the Qing Dynasty and won an award at the Panama Exposition at the beginning of this century. It mainly uses peach kernel as material and skillfully utilizes the natural hemp pattern on the kernel to carve various vivid scenes, such as landscapes, flowers, birds, figures and excellent works such as cars, boats, jewelry and seals.

Representative works:

"Night Journey to the Red Cliffs" is improved on the basis of "Nuclear Boat", a masterpiece of Wang Shuyuan in Ming Dynasty. The talented Su Dongpo was persecuted by a villain and banished to Huangzhou. During the days of his disappointment, he often visited mountains and rivers and composed poems to express his feelings. He inquired about a famous place called Red Cliff along the Yangtze River, so on a moonlit night, he asked a few friends to come to Red Cliff in a small boat to visit the place. After returning, he wrote the famous poem "Red Cliff Fugue". The work shows Lu Zhi reciting on the bow of the boat, Su Dongpo and the monk Fo Yin talking and laughing, the boatman sculling, smoking, the bookkeeper burning the stove with a fan, tired to sleep, there is a teapot on the stove, the boat side of the left and right windows 8, opening and closing dexterously, the window is engraved with the words: "The mountain is high and the water is small, and the water falls down from the stone. The wind comes, the water waves do not rise". 16 words, and the door and shallow engraved with "hosting the Flying Fairy to invite travel, hold the moon and long end, vertical a reed such as, Ling million hectares of the vastness of the 24 words, the boat canopy rafters under a horizontal plaque engraved with the "night tour of the Red Cliffs," 4 words, the bottom of the boat is also engraved with the author's name and engraved the date. *** more than 60 words, strong strokes, clear handwriting, more cleverly, the bow hangs down an anchor chain, by 45 as small as a grain of rice, as thin as a hair oval ring linkage, interlocking, turning freely.

The varieties of Weifang nuclear carvings mainly include cars, boats, seals, landscapes, fishes and insects, figures, pavilions and pavilions. One of the most famous and prevalent subjects is the nuclear boat, which is most commonly seen in Dongpo's trip to Red Cliff." Night trip to chibi" boat on five people, beard Bi see, Ruo Peng, windows, oars, pots, stoves, etc., the boat side of the left and right windows 8, open and close dexterous, window engraved with "mountain high moon small, the water falls out of the stone, the wind comes, water waves do not rise," the brush strokes strong, the handwriting is clear.

As one of China's traditional special craft treasures of the art of nuclear carving has a long history, the mid-Song Dynasty on the written record, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties to reach its heyday, modern Shandong Weifang's nuclear carving is the most famous." Weifang nuclear carving "to peach kernel as a material, clever use of the nuclear embryo on the vertical and horizontal disorder, the depth of the texture of the indeterminate, carved out a lifelike image of the scene, such as landscapes, people, flowers and birds and other three-dimensional modeling, as well as carving historical figures, mythological stories, auspicious seals and so on. Nuclear carving works layout concise, simple and generous, generalization, there is a blend of heaven and earth in a square inch of the essence of all things." Weifang Nuclear Carving" has been inherited and developed for generations, and has been groping for innovations, continuously producing masterpieces of ingenious workmanship, and in 2008, it was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list. The picture shows Weifang Arts and Crafts Master and Outstanding Inheritor of Chinese Folk Culture, Mr. Wang Ou De, creating a nuclear carving work. Wang Ou De's nuclear boat carving fine, exquisite, nuclear boat above the door, windows are movable, can be opened freely, especially the stern hanging down the anchor chain by 45 as small as a grain of rice, as thin as a hair oval ring connected to become, each section rotates freely.