Excuse me, where can I find a nice wooden hairpin in Jinan?

Boxwood carving is a kind of sculpture art.

It adopts the natural form of boxwood, with smooth wood, delicate texture, solemn color and materials. Boxwood carving is milky yellow. The longer it takes, the deeper the color will be, giving people an ancient and elegant aesthetic feeling. Yueqing County in Wenzhou City is the birthplace of boxwood carving in Zhejiang Province. It is also called "Three Carvings in Zhejiang" with Dongyang Wood Carving and Qingtian Stone Carving.

According to legend, boxwood carving was invented by a cowherd named Ye at the end of Qing Dynasty. Ye is from Yueqing, Zhejiang. One day, he was playing in a temple at the head of the village and saw an old man carving a Buddha statue in the temple. He was immediately attracted by the old man's skills. He simply ran out of the temple, tied the cow to a tree, dug up a sticky piece of mud, sat at the door of the temple and secretly learned to make plastic. The old man is a famous local folk artist. Seeing that Ye is clever and studious, he accepted him as a disciple and taught him five skills, such as round carving, clay sculpture, painting, gilding and relief. He made rapid progress, and a year later, he mastered this skill. One day, Ye saw the plastic Buddha statue in Baotai Mountain, Yueqing County. A Taoist in the temple broke a boxwood and asked him to carve a wishful hairpin out of boxwood. In the process of carving, Ye found that boxwood is tough, delicate in texture and inferior in color to other wood, so it is a good material for carving. From then on, he began to carve works with boxwood. In this way, boxwood carving in China Folk Art Garden was born.

Woodcarving tools include mud hammers, sculpture stands and clay plastic boxes, as well as calipers, scrapers and various forms of plastic knives. Tools used for rough machining include saws, wooden hammers, hammers, etc. The main tools for carving are chisels, which have various types and complete functions, and are divided into oblique chisels, triangular chisels, flat chisels, round chisels, steel chisels, reverse chisels, reverse chisels, oblique chisels, needle chisels and hand saws. Its operation is more detailed, and it is divided into more than ten processes, such as sketching, molding clay draft, selecting wood, operating rough blank, carving solid blank, carefully trimming, grinding and polishing, finely carving hair lines, waxing and polishing, and matching foot basin.

Among them, the wisp carving technique is the most exquisite skill in wood carving, which can make the work ethereal, exquisite, elegant, beautiful and dynamic.

Ye Runju, a master of arts and crafts in China, is good at carving skills and integrates the strengths of sister art; In particular, he absorbed the techniques of penetration, line drawing, scraping and hollowing out, and innovated the old techniques to make the works vivid and unique. And it should be three-dimensional, static and dynamic, giving people a real and cordial feeling.

In the past, wood carvings were mostly used for carving Buddha statues, building temples, carving dragon lanterns, carving plaques, making screens and furniture. Through the efforts of artists of all ages, it has now become a handicraft that people appreciate.

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Boxwood carving

Boxwood carving is named after the carved wood is boxwood. Boxwood grows slowly, with a diameter of only about 1.5 cm in forty or fifty years, so it is said that it is difficult to grow boxwood for a thousand years and it is difficult to play boxwood (a kind of beat in musical instruments) for a thousand years.

According to legend, it was first discovered by a folk artist who carved statues and Buddha statues. By chance, boxwood is tough and smooth in texture, delicate in texture, yellow and ivory in color, darkened with age, simple and beautiful, and moderate in hardness. It is the best material for carving small round carvings.

Boxwood carvings are mainly produced in Wenzhou and Yueqing, Zhejiang Province. Yueqing is the birthplace, with a history of about 150 years. Boxwood carving originated from a small carved Buddha statue decorated with carved dragon lanterns on the popular Lantern Festival. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, it had developed into an exquisite craft appreciation product known for its exquisiteness, which was used to decorate people's desks. Influenced by the modeling style and lines of literati paintings in the late Qing Dynasty, the works have the characteristics of simple and round knife work, fine and smooth, both physical and mental description of characters, realistic structure and poetic. Most of the contents and themes show the characters in China folk myths and legends, such as: Eight Immortals, Shouxing, Guan Gong, Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin and so on. Because Wenzhou is close to the mountain forest, artists can draw materials nearby, which greatly facilitates and promotes the development of boxwood carving. Through the continuous efforts and research of artists from generation to generation, excellent traditional styles and techniques of boxwood carving have finally been formed, among which the hollowing-out technique is the most typical one, which is the main technique to form vivid and exquisite boxwood carving works. Among Astronomical Scattering Flowers, Red Silk Dance and Ina, at the beginning of this century, the famous artist Zhu Zichang's excellent works such as Hide and Seek won prizes at the Nanyang Persuasion Meeting and the Pacific World Expo, making boxwood carvings famous all over the world. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, boxwood carving developed rapidly and outstanding works emerged constantly. On the basis of inheriting and developing excellent traditional skills, he created a variety of round carving skills such as "platter carving", "group carving" and "mosaic carving", and skillfully combined relief with round carving to produce many excellent works. Boxwood carvings are produced in Fujian and Shanghai in addition to Wenzhou and Yueqing in Zhejiang. On the basis of traditional carving techniques in China, Shanghai boxwood carving absorbed the anatomy, proportion, structure, center of gravity and lines of western sculpture. Most of his works are based on children's life and folk customs, full of life flavor, humorous, vivid and natural, and known as the "Shanghai style" boxwood carving characteristics. The formation of boxwood carving in Shanghai was initiated by Xu, a famous artist who was engaged in western religious sculpture in his early years. His representative works, such as Naughty Doll, Playing Tortoise with Five Children, Raising Camels, Lara L, and Giving Food to the Public, are full of life, accurate anatomy, appropriate exaggeration, clear carving and interesting.

Boxwood carving's famous artists include Feng Wang, Ye Runzhou and Wang Jiachun. Their works have different styles, some pay attention to simplicity, simplicity and vividness, and their artistic techniques are more realistic. Some are good at carving techniques, exquisite and delicate. Gao Gongbo in Yueqing, as a new generation of woodcarving artists, engaged in the creation and research of boxwood carving and tree root carving, but also developed a brand-new boxwood carving technology, which is called "getting out of the embarrassment of boxwood carving for hundreds of years". Boxwood carving's technological characteristics are mainly manifested in his skills of expressing art with wood according to materials. Although it is a three-dimensional small round carving, it is good at single round carving. The carving process of boxwood is complicated, including: conceiving sketch, making mud draft, selecting wood, operating rough blank, carving fine blank, carefully trimming, grinding and polishing, fine carving and hairline, waxing and polishing, and matching base. Every working procedure is strictly controlled. General products are divided into assembly lines, and special works are independently completed by people who can engrave and paint. Artists with superb skills and high self-cultivation can often carve directly without molding clay manuscripts. Sometimes, in order to enrich and stretch the works, the method of assembly and combination is often adopted.