What is the development status of Dongyang woodcarving technology?

As the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects, Dongyang woodcarving has developed rapidly, becoming the business card of Yoichi Higashi Zhang Liangli. On the one hand, the shaping of Dongyang woodcarving brand is attributed to its enduring artistic charm, on the other hand, it is due to the continuous release of industrial development kinetic energy.

In order to promote industrial development, Dongyang City has held more than ten consecutive China Wood Carving and Bamboo Weaving Technology Expositions, and successfully held the first China Masters Fair in 2020, which will build a larger exchange and exhibition platform for industrial development and lead all kinds of resources to gather in Dongyang. At the same time, Dongyang woodcarving mahogany industry explores and improves the industrial chain, optimizes the market structure, takes "Internet plus physical market" as a breakthrough, builds a new retail smart mahogany market, and opens up new retail channels for online and offline mahogany markets, effectively promoting the development of mahogany furniture enterprises.

In addition, Dongyang also relies on Zhan Yun and other online platforms to build a never-ending exhibition, revitalize the traditional craft industry, and accelerate the transformation of cultural advantages and brand advantages into development advantages.

Characteristics of Dongyang Woodcarving

Has a long history: Dongyang woodcarving originated in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1000 years. It is one of the important representatives of traditional woodcarving in China.

Exquisite skills: Dongyang woodcarving is famous for its exquisite carving technology and rich layering. It uses flat chisel, round chisel, triangular chisel, butterfly chisel, oblique chisel, carving knife and other tools to form relief, hollow carving, round carving, semi-round carving, sawing empty carving and negative carving, with mature technology.

Rich themes: Dongyang woodcarving mostly shows opera stories, myths and legends and historical allusions. The characters are round and full, with delicate expressions, elegant costumes, pavilions, flowers and trees, complete composition, agility and harmony.

Ingenious composition: Dongyang woodcarving mostly adopts scattered perspective and multi-layer overlapping in composition, which has both three-dimensional sense and flatness, forming a sense of transparency, fullness and roundness.

Natural materials: dongyang woodcarving is strictly selected, using basswood, white peach wood, camphor wood, ginkgo wood and other materials, retaining the natural texture and color of logs, with elegant style.