Posted 2016/11/18
To appreciate gem and jewelry is mainly to focus on appreciating the molding and the color. And the Chinese jade carving craftwork brings the artistic conceptions of beauty. Chinese jade carving is an art craftwork with deep ethnic characteristics, which is a dazzle treasure in the world of sculpture. It is a collection and implicaition of Chinese culture as well as religious notion.
Wood carving is very common in China. It is widely distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hubei, and Shandong. The famous wood carvings are Dongyang wood carving, Chaozhou wood carving, and boxwood carving.
Because the places to the south of the Yangtze River (Kiangnan area) are rich in bamboos, so bamboo carving art prevails in the following provinces as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, and Sichuan and so on.
