Wood carving handicrafts have a long historical origin, good handicrafts can reflect the carver’s ingenuity and superb carving technology. Traditional architectural decoration is known for three carvings (art carving, brick carving, stone carving), and the art of wood carving is in the first place in terms of quantity and quality. Wood carving through the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty from simple to complex development, to the Republic of China gradually weakened.
Chinese wood carving handicraft art can be traced back to the primitive society period, then there are a lot of the first embryonic crafts. To the Warring States period, the wood carving process has been used for pottery production process by the Shang Dynasty simple carving and carving plate of the yin carving, the development of three-dimensional round carving process.
Han dynasty animal wood carving with the whole wood carving system, the Chinese wood carving art to a peak. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the woodcarving process became more and more perfect. Ming and Qing dynasty wood carving is a mature era of Chinese classical wood carving art, works are very rich, in addition to animals, and figures.
Practical wood carving is mainly used in construction, while artistic wood carving is mostly focused on jewelry crafts. Wood carvings are rarely seen as ornaments, decorating the human figure, with a few artistic; such as artifacts, holding objects, rustic in the storage of an attitude. Conform to the texture of the wood, cutting, carving, can give people a refreshing feeling.
Ming and Qing dynasties of wood carving themes, mostly auspicious patterns, mythological stories. Such as the auspicious celebration, five sons, dragon and phoenix, peace and quiet, pine and crane and so on for the theme, popular with the society at that time. Decorate ancient buildings with wood carvings, with the simple and elegant, rich and luxurious style, showing the art of wood carving in the ancient architecture of the unique decorative role.
According to people’s demand for material life and spiritual life, traditional Chinese architecture to wooden structure for the system, and in these wooden structures on the beauty of processing, that is, the traditional architecture of wood carving decorative art.
Nowadays, with the development of building materials, wood carving art will also enter a new space. People call for the return of traditional art, looking forward to the art of wood carving in the life of a wider use.
