What are the traditional crafts of metal products in the history of China?

In ancient China, there were eight exquisite gold crafts: gilding, inlaying silk, hammering, misplacing gold and silver, choking silk, stir-frying beads, carving flowers and tiring silk.

1. Gold plating

Gold plating method, also known as fire gold plating method, is to dissolve gold in mercury to obtain gold amalgam, which is coated on the surface of metal objects, heated to volatilize mercury, and then gold and metal surfaces will be consolidated to form a bright golden yellow coating.

Step 2: Mosaic of filaments

Filament inlay, also known as fine gold craft, is mainly used for the production of royal ornaments. It is a combination of filigree and mosaic.

hammer

Hammer hammer is made of gold and silver, which is extremely malleable. It is hammered into sheets repeatedly and then made into various shapes and patterns.

4. Gold and silver are wrong

The gold and silver crisscross process is one of the traditional decorative processes of China ancient metal joinery.

Pinch silk

Pinch silk is to pinch gold, silver or other metal filaments into patterns according to the bending and turning point of ink-like patterns and stick them on utensils.

Fried beads

Deep-fried beads refer to the dripping of gold solution into warm water, which will form gold beads of different sizes.

7. flowers

Chisel flower is a process of using chisels with various basic patterns to make the metal surface show concave and convex patterns by hammering.

8. Tired silk

Tired silk, also known as "flower work" or "pattern", is to draw gold and silver into silk, then weave it into strands or various net structures, and then weld it on the utensils.