ivory carving

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: ivory carving

Applicant: Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Project No.: 326

Project No.: Ⅶ - 27

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Guangdong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Protection unit: Guangzhou Daxin Ivory Craft Factory

Introduction to ivory carving:

Applicant: Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Ivory carving refers to the carving process and its finished products with ivory as the material. Ivory carving in Beijing and Guangzhou has different artistic styles.

The history of Beijing ivory carving can be traced back to at least 2000 years ago. In the process of historical development, excellent craftsmen who migrated from other places or were recruited to Beijing constantly exchanged views with local craftsmen in Beijing. After hundreds of years of practice, Beijing ivory carving has a graceful and elegant court artistic character and formed unique craft characteristics. Beijing ivory carving once declined in the late Qing Dynasty, but with the efforts of Yang Shihui and his descendants, this ancient craft was revived.

Ivory carving has become a part of China's special arts and crafts because of its high quality. Beijing ivory carving technology is complex and difficult, with a wide range of subjects, and the skills are handed down by oral and psychological teaching. Since the 1980s, in order to protect the elephant population, the international trade in Ivory was once banned, which made the ivory carving process in Beijing, which was totally dependent on imported Ivory materials, in a dilemma, facing a situation of no raw materials and no young successors. In recent years, the international community has begun to abandon the rigid trade ban and allow the trade of ivory stocks. Even so, there is no way to solve the problem that no one inherits Beijing ivory carving as a special craft. We should establish a protection mechanism as soon as possible to explore and rescue this ancient characteristic craft.

Guangzhou ivory carving is also known as Guangzhou ivory carving. Carved ivory ball, flower boat and micro carved calligraphy and painting are all representatives of Guangdong ivory carving. Guangdong ivory carving products are mainly divided into three categories: first, appreciation products, including ivory balls, flower boats, crab cages, flower towers, vases, birds and animals, figures, stone mountain scenery, etc.; second, practical products, including folding fans, table lamps, cigarette cups, cigarette holders, pen holders, powder boxes, seals, combs, chopsticks, toothpicks, bookmarks, paper knives, chess, etc.; third, decorations, including bracelets, necklaces, earrings, rings, rings, etc Pins, etc.

Guangzhou dental heavy sculptors are famous for their hollow and deep carving techniques. In the long-term practice, they have gradually formed a complete set of exquisite carving techniques. Guangzhou dental carvings are delicate and exquisite. They are exquisite and exquisite. They pay attention to the bleaching and color decoration of dental materials. Works with teeth Yingrun, fine carving, the overall layout is complex and lively, leaving no blank. Ivory carving and other materials such as red sandalwood, rhinoceros horn, hawksbill shell and green feather are cleverly inlaid on one vessel, which makes the pattern more hierarchical and the knife technique is gorgeous and beautiful.

Guangzhou dental carving has a long history. It had a certain development in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Its craft and production scale reached a historical peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Since the Republic of China, its craft level has become increasingly exquisite, and it is unique in the national dental carving industry. The inheritance mode of Guangzhou ivory carving is mainly apprentice inheritance and family inheritance, which adopts the production mode of manual workshop. Famous inheritors include Chen Zuzhang, Weng Zhao, Weng Rongbiao, Feng Shaoxia, Li dingning, etc.

Guangzhou, which is located in the South Gate of China, has close economic and trade exchanges with overseas countries, and the handicraft market with national characteristics has a considerable development prospect. However, there is no family style handicraft workshop in the dental carving industry in Guangzhou, and the relationship between master and apprentice has changed greatly. The handicraft technology has been lost or mutated unconsciously, and the handicraft process of precision work has also been impacted No one is willing to make a living with traditional ivory carving techniques, which greatly affects the development of Guangzhou ivory carving industry and the inheritance of traditional techniques. It is necessary to make plans to change the current unfavorable situation as soon as possible.