Chaozhou Gu Liuxi Woodcarving Boutique Museum: A piece of woodcarving is a story

time:2023-03-29 08:08:15 source:kilakilavilla.com author:Outdoor cuisine
Chaozhou Gu Liuxi Woodcarving Boutique Museum: A piece of woodcarving is a story

A whole piece of wood, under the carving of a carving knife, lobsters and crabs are lifelike and vivid, and the changing carving techniques have created a thousand-year-old Chaozhou woodcarving. This long-standing Chaozhou folk traditional art, together with Zhejiang Dongyang and Anhui woodcarving, is known as the three major woodcarving schools in China. Chaozhou woodcarving is widely used in ancestral halls, temples, doors and windows of buildings, plaques, pillars, screens, tables, tea cabinets, etc. on household utensils all over Chaoshan. Sedan chairs, candlesticks, hanging screens, etc. are also decorated with Chaozhou woodcarving, which makes woodcarving have a wide range of social needs and also creates generations of skilled craftsmen. Gu Liuxi is the inheritor of China's intangible cultural heritage Chaozhou woodcarving project and a master of Chinese arts and crafts. He has devoted himself to woodcarving for more than 40 years and has won many national awards. Coming here can not only taste Chaozhou carving craftsmanship, but also a cultural journey. There are so many Chaozhou craftsmanship behind all kinds of sculptures, which is really dizzying. For folk handicrafts, Gu Liuxi, who is hailed as a "ghost talent" by the industry, has taken a different approach. He has changed the tradition of Chaozhou wood carving with camphor wood carving, and challenged the difficult hard woods such as rosewood and lobular rosewood, and became famous in the arts and crafts circle.

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