Inlay (bone wood inlay)

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: inlay (bone wood inlay)

Applicant: Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 867

Project No.: Ⅶ - 91

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province

Protected by: zilinfang Art Museum, Yinzhou, Ningbo

Introduction to inlay (bone wood inlay)

Applicant: Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province

Chinese mosaic art has a long history and unique style. In the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the decorative patterns of inlaying gold and jade appeared in bronze casting. With the continuous improvement of the technological level, natural colored stone, pebble, shell, mother of pearl, gem, jade, artificial glass, ceramics, wood and so on have become the raw materials for inlaying. In the long-term development process, mosaic art has accumulated many important technical means, mainly including direct mosaic method, prefabrication method, reverse mounting method, positive mounting method and so on. In addition to plane inlay, it can also be inlaid on relief, which can further enhance the stereo sense of the inlaid object. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the method of relief inlay was widely used in the decoration of various handicrafts. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, there were also relief inlay methods of inlaying opera characters on different "dizi", such as inlay porcelain and bone wood inlay. Inlaid handicraft has the advantages of firmness, light resistance, moisture resistance and not easy to change color. The texture of materials and the resulting shape, color and light effects add artistic charm to the inlaid handicraft, showing the beauty of ruggedness, richness and gorgeous.

Bone wood inlay is a kind of traditional decorative art popular in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. It has a long history. In the long-term development process, it has gone through the stages of wood inlay, bone wood inlay and so on, and finally formed a stable craft tradition and style. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the application of copper wire saw played an important role in promoting the formation and development of Ningbo bone wood mosaic art. Bone wood inlay is widely used in furniture and architectural decoration. Its products are not only popular in Zhejiang Province, but also widely distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and southeast coastal areas. Ningbo bone wood inlay has three kinds of Technology: high inlay, flat inlay and high flat mixed inlay. In the process of production, it usually takes cow bone, wood chips and other raw materials to prefabricate certain patterns, then makes grooves on the wood, and then uses yellow croaker glue to bond the embedded patterns, and finally carries out carving, polishing and painting. Ningbo is rich in bone and wood inlays, which mainly show historical stories, folklore, customs, plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and other auspicious patterns with strong black-and-white contrast, rich in decorative and regional characteristics.