What are Chinese Wood Carvings?

What are Chinese Wood Carvings?

• Answer:

  Chinese wood carving originated in the Spring and Autumn Period (from 770 B.C. to 476 B.C.). The techniques of wood carving can be divided into freestanding, engraving, relief, deep relief, etc. Chinese wood carving features clear cutting and smooth lines. Famous wood carvings include the Dongyang wood carving in Zhejiang, gold-lacquer wood carving in Guangdong, boxwood carving in Wenzhou, and Longyan wood carving in Fujian, etc. The Chinese wood carving contained two branches: wood carving of art, and wood furniture sculptural. The wood carving of art is an old-line art in China; it can be traced back to the New Stone Age. Our ancestors mad the articles for daily use with the simple stone tools, and the primitive art of wood carving accordingly appeared. Although wood works were hard to be preserved, especially after thousands of years, we are handpicked some of them, in order to give you a contour of this storied arts of China. At mention of wood furniture, there are also tow parts: reproduction of Ming style; and the modern padauk furniture. The Ming style furniture is adored by more and more people all over the world by reason of its sententiousness, liveliness and idiographic rondure. That is the reason why Ming style furniture occupied a very important place in the worldwide furniture history. Full together the ancestral workmanship and contemporary aesthetics, the modern rosewood furniture is created a new fashion that we could enjoy and have further choice.