What are the artistic features of Dongyang woodcarving crafts?

The themes of Dongyang woodcarving are mostly historical stories and folklore. Screen design is closely related to China traditional painting, with rich and varied decorative patterns. "Full of flowers" is also interspersed with rich sculptures, including figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, animals and so on. In terms of artistic techniques, Dongyang woodcarving deals with the scattered perspective relationship of height, distance and plane, with the scattered perspective or bird's-eye perspective of China traditional painting as its composition feature. Can fully display the content of the picture, without being bound by the western sculpture painting laws such as "near the big and far from the small", "close-up view is clear" and "horizon is empty". The carving techniques of Dongyang woodcarving are mainly relief, which combines more than ten techniques, such as deep hollow carving, hollow carving, hollow double-sided carving, semi-circular carving, three-sided carving, cylindrical carving, struggle carving, shadow carving, tree root carving, colored wood mosaic carving, hollow sticking carving and so on. Exquisite carving, fine washing, not hurting the whole, strong. For example, "through-the-air double-sided carving" is a technique of carving flowers on both sides after cutting them. The overall pattern, compact structure, good air permeability and durability are often used for carving on hanging corridors, doors and windows, palace lanterns, screens and cabinets of houses.