What is the best wood for woodcarving?

Generally speaking, Huang Huali, Huang Huali, lobular rosewood and rosewood are better.

Woodcarving is particular about the choice of wood. Wood that is too hard is not easy to carve, and wood that is too soft is not easy to preserve. Straight wire wood is easy to be damaged, so we should give consideration to both hardness and softness, and choose delicate, tough and solid wood for it.

China woodcarving has a long history. As early as the primitive society, many woodcarving handicrafts had been formed. During the Warring States period, wood carving technology has developed from simple clapper carving and engraving gravure carving in Shang Dynasty to three-dimensional circular carving technology, which has achieved a leap.

The animal woodcarving unearthed from Han tombs has vivid shapes, and the whole woodcarving system is the innovation of woodcarving technology in Han Dynasty. From the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China's woodcarving technology has been very mature and exquisite, and its theme has also expanded to life customs, fairy tales, auspicious flowers and so on, and it has been widely used in the fields of architecture, furniture, daily necessities and so on.

There are many unique schools in the development of woodcarving art, among which the most famous ones are Dongyang woodcarving in Zhejiang, Golden Lacquer woodcarving in Guangdong, Boxwood woodcarving in Wenzhou and Longan in Fujian, which are called "Four Famous Carvings in China" by later generations.

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