Huangyang woodcarving

Woodcarving in Huangyang is a kind of round carving art. It uses the natural form of boxwood with smooth wood, delicate texture and solemn color to draw materials. Boxwood carving is milky yellow, and the longer it takes, the deeper its color will be, giving people a simple and elegant aesthetic feeling. Yueqing County, Wenzhou City is the birthplace of boxwood carving in Zhejiang Province. It is also known as "Zhejiang Three Carvings" with Dongyang Wood Carving and Qingtian Stone Carving. Wood carving tools include mud hammers, sculpture stands and clay plastic boxes, as well as calipers, scrapers and various forms of plastic knives. Tools used for roughing are saws, wooden hammers, iron hammers, etc. The main tool used for carving is chisel, which has many kinds and complete functions, and is divided into oblique chisel, triangular chisel, flat chisel, round chisel, steel chisel, reverse chisel, reverse chisel, tilt chisel, needle chisel and hand saw, bamboo hairpin, drag drill and so on. Its operation is more detailed, which is divided into more than ten processes, such as sketching, molding clay draft, selecting wood, operating rough blank, carving solid blank, carefully trimming, sanding and polishing, finely carving hair lines, waxing and polishing, and matching with footbath. Among them, the wisp carving technique is the most exquisite skill in wood carving, which can make the work ethereal, exquisite, elegant and beautiful, and produce dynamics. Ye Runju, a master of arts and crafts in China, is good at carving skills and melts the strengths of sister art; In particular, he absorbed the techniques of penetration, thread, scraping and hollowing out, and innovated the old techniques to make his works vivid and unique. And it should be solid, static and dynamic, giving people a real and cordial feeling. In the past, wood carvings were mostly used to carve Buddha statues, build temples, carve dragon lanterns, carve plaques, and make screens and furniture. Through the efforts of artists in past dynasties, it has now become a handicraft for people to appreciate.
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