CULTURE

[Introduction]
Known as the hometown of China's Zhejiang Dongyang wood carving, there are over a thousand years of history, woodcarving, Beijing Forbidden City and the Soviet Union, Hangzhou, Anhui and other places, there are fine wood carving of Dongyang world to stay. Dongyang wood carvings, are mainly of flat relief carving art. Its multi-level relief, scatter perspective composition, retaining flat decoration, formed its own distinct characteristics. Compounded by color, light and texture to retain the natural wood color, elegant style, also known as "white wood" (showing the natural wood color, unlike the painting), has been since the Tang Dynasty over a thousand years of history of the Chinese nation's best folk One process, known as the "National Treasure."
Produced in Dongyang, Zhejiang Dongyang wood carving because of the name, "Dongyang wood carving" and "Qingtian stone" "boxwood carvings" "plastic cup" and that "Zhejiang three birds with one plastic one." According to legend, as early as more than a thousand years ago, Dongyang wood carvings of people began their history, their generations, and create numerous masterpieces through the ages and has created thousands of wood artists, thus becoming the famous "carved township."
Dongyang Dongyang wood carving are mainly distributed in the various townships, the extension and the surrounding counties and cities, and into Jiangsu, Shanghai, Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hubei, Henan, Jilin, Sichuan, Chongqing, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, as far as to Singapore, Thailand, Mongolia, Albania, Canada and other countries.

[Traceability]
Dongyang wood carving about Tang and Sheng Yu Ming and Qing dynasties began, since the Song Dynasty onwards already have a high standard of workmanship. According to Dongyang, "Kang Xi Xin-Zhi" contains, Tang Tai-year period, high-rise village, Dongyang Feng Feng Su, Feng Ting-two brothers, who were sub-board of civil chancery, and Industry chancery office, which houses "high-rises draw bar stunning eyes, its next step Gallery few and a half years. " Lu's tomb and Tang Yuan-chin-shih-year period, the prime minister Shu Yuan Yu's tomb with the theft of the 20th century, are buried with carved wooden figurines unearthed, showing the Tang Dynasty Tai Dongyang wood carving years ago has grown to a certain extent. Sung Chien-lung of the existing two Thai and Shan Cai Guanyin Bodhisattva Boy Modeling quaint modesty, Dongyang wood carving illustrates the level and style of the time.
When the Ming dynasty carved wooden Indian popular book, Dongyang wood carving craft gradually developed into a famous Ming Dynasty origin. A major producer Rohan, statues and palaces, temples, gardens, residential and other architectural decoration. To the Qing dynasty Qianlong, Dongyang wood carving has been known throughout the country, there were about more than 400 craftsmen Beijing to repair the palace, and some artists have been selected seek the palace carved lanterns and dragon bed, Throne, which a few and so on, and later developed into In the folk carving flower beds, cabinet and other furniture items. Dongyang wood carving is widely used in construction and furniture, decoration, form a comprehensive set of skills and perfect style, the existing house has Lu, "Su-Yong Tong" and the white Tanzania, "Works of the Church," immediately bridge "a Jing-tang" and the Ming and Qing ancient architecture and the "1000 Public-bed, "" ten-mile red makeup "and other furniture.
After the 1911 Revolution, turned commodity Dongyang wood carving, wood carving crafts produced by artists and cabinet furniture is exported to Hong Kong businessmen bought the United States, Southeast Asia and other places, the formation of Dongyang wood carving products, hatching time. Opened in 1914 in Hangzhou, "Jen Arts Factory" is the earliest manufacturers of Dongyang wood carving, after gradually to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and other development. Anti-Japanese War and the Revolutionary War, Dongyang wood carving was once dying out, the product unmarketable, artists unemployment. After the founding of New China, the Party and Government to scattered in various places woodcarvers organized, set up a cooperative for. Also set up in 1954, Dongyang wood carving factory, products are exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia more than 80 countries and regions. Dongyang wood carving so far has grown to seven major types of three stem more than 600 varieties. One wood screen, hanging screen and three-dimensional art sets a higher appreciation of artistic screens goods in recent years, Dongyang wood carving industry in the traditional craft forms of relief on the basis of an innovation. With the development of the times, Dongyang wood carving in the combination of the traditional wooden craft, antique, and create a modern architecture and decoration there are many successful aspects of work.

[Features] Arts
Dongyang wood carving are the traditional decorative carving, to the main flat relief, there is a thin relief, bas-relief, deep relief, high relief, multi-layered eagle, double eagle air permeability, saw an empty eagle, Montreal, carved, inlaid carved wood color , logs and other types of relief, rich layers but without losing the basic characteristics of flat decoration, and the color of light, not dark paint facilities to retain the natural wood color, texture, elegant style, known as the "white wood." Dongyang wood carving and strict material selection, multi-use linden wood, white myrtle, Xiang Zhangmu, gingko wood and other materials. Dongyang wood carving works of art generally do not add coloring, multi-purpose color transparent varnish coated cover, to preserve the white wood's natural color, so that people can better appreciate the superb carving skill. Whether its process type of painting sculpture and artwork design carved into two categories, both focus on creativity and "art" of, with a high artistic value.
Dongyang wood carving in process operation of "artwork design", "Beating blank", "repair light" division of labor. But the good can be carved paintings, with rich experience, skilled artist but you can not draft old, direct carving. When creating a new work, they can also relying on memory and dictation, listening to people read the content side of the artwork to draw, and then carving, this particular skill can be, and now very few people can be competent.
Dongyang wood carving types of raw materials, mainly Xiangzhang Mu, pine, mountain poplar-based, it also uses cedar, rosewood (rosewood), Ash, Metasequoia, spruce, yew, pine in Taiwan. Dongyang wood carving works of art generally do not add coloring, multi-purpose color transparent varnish coated cover, to preserve the white wood's natural color, so that people can better appreciate the superb carving skill.