Yanggu Wood Carving: Carving Everything on Good Wood, Seeing All Life in Small Space
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LIAOCHENG, China, Nov.8, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--
Wood carving is an important part of the traditional Chinese carving art.
Yanggu County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province is a millennial ancient city,
where the Yellow River culture, canal culture, Water Margin culture, and Dongyi
culture are blended, providing a cultural soil for folk art and traditional
crafts, as well as the deposits of various traditional folk arts, among which
Yanggu wood carving has a history of more than 200 years. The local wood
carving works mostly originate from the story of Water Margin and local folk
customs, with extremely complex production process from design, material
selection, cutting, woodworking, to carving, assembly, polishing and waxing.
Camphorwood, nanmu, sandalwood and other precious woods are often used as raw
materials. In 2013, Yanggu wood carving was selected as intangible cultural
heritage of Shandong Province, according to the Information Office of YangGu
District People's Government.
68-year-old Wang Chuancheng is the representative inheritor of Yanggu wood
carving in Shandong Province. In his exhibition hall, the wood carving works
embody smooth and simple cutting technique, lively characters, and vivid
natural shape. His representative works include Confucius, the Founder of the
Thought of Great Harmony, Nine Phoenix Screen, Screen with Mountains, Waters,
and Saints, etc.
Source: The Information Office of YangGu District People's Government
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Caption: Bamboo Sculpture of the God of Longevity
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Caption: Yanggu wood carving still maintains the tradition of handicraft
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