Is the wood carving in Dali good?

The most famous woodcarving in Dali is Jianchuan woodcarving.

Jianchuan woodcarving was produced in Jianchuan County, Dali Prefecture, and began in 10 century. After absorbing the culture and production technology of the Han nationality and other nationalities, the Bai people have gradually formed unique and exquisite skills. Wood carving is mainly used for architectural decoration, mainly in relief. Now it has developed into a woodcarving handicraft with high artistic value, especially the cloud woodcarving with marble furniture. Traditional patterns such as dragon, phoenix, lion, peacock and plum blossom are carefully carved from high-quality hardwood and used to make tables, chairs and coffee tables. And then inlaid with Cangshan specialty colored marble, simple and elegant, novel and elegant, full of national characteristics, practical and gorgeous, exported to Europe and America.

Jianchuan woodcarving can be used for carving and decoration of ancient buildings and houses, such as bucket arches, lintels, lattice doors, square tables, living room tables, coffee tables, beds, stools and so on. National musical instruments, such as taps and sound windows on the three strings of taps; Daily necessities, such as cabinets, pen containers, tea trays, dough molds (for making cakes), etc.

The content of wood carving is mainly flowers and animals, and there are also fairy tales such as "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and "Eight Immortals' Birthday".

Woodcarving patterns include vanilla, dragon, phoenix, lion's head, phoenix's head, moire and so on, which are varied, original and brilliant.

The most distinctive feature of large building decoration is the lattice door, which is usually composed of 4 or 6 doors, placed in the main hall and living room, with 2 to 4 floors to hollow relief. The contents include "the foundation of wealth" (peony rooster), "the magpie is on the plum blossom", "Yuanyang is playing in the water", "the white crane is flying", "the deer and crane are in the same spring" and "the Eight Immortals are crossing the sea". Exquisite carving and distinct space. Relief and three-dimensional sculpture are ingeniously integrated and lively.

Jianchuan County is known as the "hometown of carpenters". Carpenters are good at carving various figures, flowers and birds, landscapes, dragons and phoenixes, and auspicious patterns to decorate doors, windows and furniture. Jianchuan woodcarving inherits and develops the excellent national woodcarving art, and the products are made of high-quality mahogany, Betula alnoides, Burmese mahogany, natural plant paint, world-famous colored marble and other materials, which makes the products have high practical value, technological value and collection value.

Jianchuan woodcarving is exquisite in craftsmanship and exquisite in materials, which combines the essence of Ming and Qing woodcarving. Its beautiful and elegant shape, elegant and unique, hard and flexible, corrosion-resistant and non-deformable, reproduces the excellent national wood carving art, Jianchuan wood carving has luxurious, elegant and national living room furniture; Simple and elegant restaurant furniture inlaid with stone; Vivid murals of Kowloon, Nine Lions and Flowers and Birds; Various types of seat screens, hanging screens and screens; There are hundreds of kinds of lattice doors, windows, draperies and various ethnic tourism products in ancient garden buildings.