Inlay (porcelain inlay)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Inlay

Applicant: Puning City, Guangdong Province

Project No.: 867

Project No.: Ⅶ - 91

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Guangdong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Puning City, Guangdong Province

Protection unit: Puning Cultural Center

Introduction to inlay (porcelain inlay)

Applicant: Puning City, Guangdong 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.

Inlaid porcelain, also known as "jurao", "sticky Rao" and "buckle Rao", is a kind of folk architectural decoration art popular in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. Based on painting and sculpture, it uses specially fired colored glaze tiles to stick and inlay figures, flowers, birds and animals, and decorate the roofs, walls and other parts of temples and buildings. Chaoshan inlay porcelain has a unique technology, which mostly adopts semi relief or round carving style. It is vivid, colorful, solid and stable, and can withstand the sun and rain without fading. In Chaoshan area, porcelain workshops often cooperate closely with inlay craftsmen to make low-temperature porcelain of various colors. These porcelains are carefully cut by craftsmen to form the pieces needed for inlay, and then the pieces are assembled into local components with adhesive. Finally, the components are combined into various patterns or statues showing folk customs, folktales or auspicious and festive themes. Daliao inlaid porcelain and Puning inlaid porcelain are the outstanding representatives of Chaoshan inlaid porcelain. Daliao inlaid porcelain has a history of more than 100 years, which is dominated by Chaoshan style and has the characteristics of Southern Fujian. Puning inlaid porcelain has a longer history, which can be traced back to the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty.