Pulan wooden bowl

Wooden Bowl Wooden Bowl is a daily necessities that people of all ethnic groups in Tibet like to use, and it is also an exquisite traditional handicraft. People who are guests in Tibetan homes usually drink tea with their own wooden bowls. Especially in the vast rural areas of Tibet, herders always carry wooden bowls in their arms, even when they go out to be guests, so that their owners can pour him tea and grab rice cakes. This is a local custom and not rude. Tibetan brains also have special feelings for wooden bowls. There is a famous love song in Tibet, which vividly shows the relationship between wooden bowls and people: "It is reluctant to leave your lover, but it is shy to take your lover away. It would be great if the lover were a wooden bowl, always in his arms. " Wooden bowls vary in size, oblate and orange. The big ones are used to hold Ciba, and the small ones are used to drink buttered tea. The local area is not necessarily so fine. Wooden bowls are light, not easy to break and easy to carry. Using wooden bowls to hold food is not easy to spoil or burn your mouth. To make wooden bowls, we mainly choose birch, tung tree, Chengba tree and other high-quality wood as raw materials. Tree knots with big knots and many bumps are the best wood for making wooden bowls. Because the knots are solid, the wooden bowls carved with trowel are not easy to dry and crack, and the texture is delicate and beautiful. Carving wooden bowls requires meticulous work, uniform thickness around the bowl wall and stable bottom. Many Chinese and foreign tourists visit Lhasa and buy a cheap wooden bowl as a souvenir of their trip to Tibet. Some wooden bowls are also equipped with a silver cover, or covered with silver skin on the bowl edge and bowl holder, which becomes a precious handicraft, not only practical at home, but also a good gift for relatives and friends. The wooden bowls produced in Pulan County are the most famous.
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