Top 10 Chinese Jade Carving Masters

1. Yuan Xingen (Shanghai-style jade carving master)

Yuan Xingen was born in 1954. He is known in the industry as the "King of Flowers and Birds" and the "King of Skillful Carving". He is the first Chinese contemporary jade carving art to enter the international auction stage. His works have achieved great success in Sotheby's and Christie's auctions in Hong Kong. He is also an advocate of the development of gold jade, the emerging raw material for jade carving in Xinjiang, my country. Currently, he is also interested in and researches the emerging Taishan jade.

2. Yang Dazhao (senior arts and crafts artist)

Yang Dazhao’s works have a quaint style and a plain interest. They mostly use intaglio techniques, using knives as pens and knives as ink. , using jade as a carrier to express the author's literary thoughts, feelings and insights. Dedicated to creating works with a literati brushwork style, he has developed a distinctive and recognizable style. At the same time, he himself has become one of the creators with a strong literati taste in the Suzhou jade carving circle.

3. Zhao Guoan (Jade Carving Master of Henan Province)

Zhao Guoan: Born in Xinmi City, Henan Province in 1953, he engaged in jade carving design and production in 1973. In 1999, he won the "China "Folk Arts and Crafts Artist" title; in October 2001, he was awarded the title of "Henan Province Arts and Crafts Master"; in January 2005, he was awarded the title of "Henan Province Jade Carving Master"; in March 2007, he was awarded the honorary title of "Henan Province Technical Expert"; in 2008 In November, he was awarded the title of "Master of Chinese Jade Sculpture"; in December 2008, he was awarded the title of "Outstanding Arts and Crafts Artist of Henan Province".

4. Wang Guanjun (Master of Chinese Jade Carving Art)

Started working in 1975. In November 1976, he was transferred from the original Mi County Construction Company to the local state-owned Mi County Jade Carving Factory and founded in 1996. Xinmi Hualong Jade Factory. He is currently an art master in the Chinese arts and crafts industry, a master of Chinese jade carving, a master of traditional Chinese crafts, an inheritor of intangible culture in Henan Province, a technical expert in the Central Plains of Henan Province, and the deputy director of the Henan Arts and Crafts Art Museum. Henan arts and crafts master, senior arts and crafts artist, senior technician, the fifth generation successor of Henan Province's "Dense Jade Sculpture".

5. Wang Guolian (Senior Technician of Chinese Arts and Crafts Engravers)

He started the design and engraving work of jade and agate in 2004. He was fortunate to learn from the four major jade carving experts in the Beijing Jade Factory in the 1980s. Master Guo Shilin, the designer and carver of the national treasure "Joy to the Four Seas" and a representative figure of the Northern School of jade carving, systematically and in-depthly studied and researched the creative design and carving production of traditional Buddhist statues and portraits such as Guanyin, and gained great achievements in the inheritance of jade carving skills. Received careful guidance and teaching.

The improvement in understanding of the art of skillful jade carving has been recognized by the jade carving community. The works have won gold and silver awards from the Jade Hundred Flowers Award, the Jade Dragon Award, the Divine Works Award, the Jade Crown Award, and the Lu Zigang Cup. Now he is a representative figure of jade carving in the contemporary Academy of Fine Arts.