Bamboo carving (Huangyan fanhuang bamboo carving)

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

Applicant: Huangyan District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 345

Project No.: Ⅶ - 46

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Huangyan District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Huangyan hope technology factory

Introduction to bamboo carving (Huangyan fanhuang bamboo carving)

Applicant: Huangyan District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province

Huangyan fanhuang bamboo carving is a traditional folk craft in Huangyan Area of Zhejiang Province. It was founded in 1870, the ninth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, and has a history of more than 100 years. Huangyan is one of the earliest areas in China to create reed bamboo carving, and also one of the areas with the most complete preservation of this handicraft process.

It is also called "stick spring" and "counter spring". After boiling, pressing, planing and sun drying, the bamboo is glued or inlaid on the wood and bamboo, then polished and matched with other decorative materials such as mahogany to make vases, tea boxes, pen containers, tablescreens, elegant fans and other handicrafts, and then carved with various landscape, figure, flower and bird patterns, finally forming a finished product with smooth color similar to ivory. Light relief and line carving are the main decoration methods of spring products. The combination of thick and thin lines can show different levels of the screen on the spring surface with a thickness of less than half a millimeter.

Huangyan fanhuang bamboo carving has a distinctive national style and strong local characteristics, which is unique in China. It is a unique skill of Huangyan reed carving to keep the slub and turn out the reed with a three edged carving knife.

With the development of market economy and the change of people's concept of employment, Huangyan fanhuang bamboo carving has fallen into the embarrassing situation that old artists are old and young people are not willing to learn to inherit. It is in urgent need of support from relevant parties to protect the inheritance.