Yangzhou lacquerware painting technique

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Yangzhou lacquer painting skills

Applicant: Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Project No.: 402

Project No.: VIII - 52

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Jiangsu Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Protection unit: Yangzhou lacquerware Factory Co., Ltd

Brief introduction of Yangzhou lacquerware painting technique:

Applicant: Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Yangzhou lacquerware is a traditional Chinese special handicraft. It has a long history, complete varieties, exquisite skills, unique style, and is famous at home and abroad.

As early as more than 2300 years ago in the Warring States period, Yangzhou lacquerware painting techniques began to appear. From the unearthed objects, we can see that the modeling and painting techniques of lacquerware at that time had a high level. In the Han Dynasty, lacquer ware was widely used in many fields, and its modeling and decoration techniques were more exquisite and varied. There are no less than ten thousand pieces of Han Dynasty lacquerware unearthed in the suburbs of Yangzhou, most of which are painted lacquerware with various types and rich patterns. In the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou's techniques of bodiless dry lacquer, gold and silver flat off, mother of pearl inlay and so on were quite mature, and lacquerware was listed as one of the 24 tribute items. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yangzhou's lacquer art reached its peak, with the emergence of such famous varieties as carved red lacquer, flat ground mother of pearl inlay, soft mother of pearl inlay and Baibao inlay, forming a unique local style. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, there were many streets named after the production of lacquerware in Yangzhou.

There are nine kinds of modern Yangzhou lacquerware making techniques: snail, carved lacquer, carved lacquer inlaid with jade, carved lacquer, flat grinding mother of pearl, painted painting, bone stone inlay, nanmu carved lacquer sand inkstone, and polished lacquer painting. They are complete in variety, exquisite in skill, colorful, fresh in style, and full of oriental charm. The "lacquer flower" brand lacquerware produced by Yangzhou lacquerware factory is the most famous. It has won many international and domestic gold awards, and many representative works have been selected as national ceremonies or displayed in the Great Hall of the people, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and other important places in Beijing.

Due to the long training period and low income of lacquerware practitioners, there is a talent gap in Yangzhou lacquerware industry under the condition of market economy. In modern life, great changes have taken place in people's aesthetic concepts. The social demand and aesthetic value of lacquerware are gradually weakening, which leads to the shrinking of lacquerware market and the crisis of the survival of lacquerware industry. Therefore, it is necessary to protect Yangzhou lacquerware technology, so that it can continue to be inherited in modern society.