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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.

Shanghai bamboo bark carving

Bamboo carving has been collected by loyal families and litterateurs since ancient times. Bamboo carving skills fall into four categories of circular carving, openwork carving, bark carving and shallow carving. Among the four techniques, bark carving, also known as the green-left carving, is the most difficult one. Bark carving is to carve designs out of the surface bark of bamboo. During the carving procedure, craftsmen can choose how much the surface bark should be left in order to present the different levels as well as darkness and brightness of bamboo. Bark carving can work out more tridimensional products than shallow carving. Up to now, bark carving has become a specialty of Changzhou. Hence the hometown of the Xu family, Mingfeng County, is honored as the ‘hometown of bamboo carving’ by Jiangsu Province. At the first Chinese Souvenirs Designing Contest, the bamboo pen container series and the bamboo paperweight series produced by Xu Bingyan Bamboo Studio won the second place and the prize for excellent works respectively.

Huangyan bamboo carving

Huangyan bamboo carving is a kind of bamboo arts and crafts with refined sculpture, elegant modeling, and bright yellow color. It can be used for both pure artistic appreciation and decoration.

The carving skills for Huangyan bamboo carving are very special: first, craftsmen should choose the best bamboo produced in Huangyan (these bamboos should be cut in winter), cut off the green bark, put the inner bamboo ring into boiling water, flatten and agglutinate the boiled bamboo, then decorate the bamboo by carving various landscape, flowers, birds, and figures, and finally shape and wax the carving.

At present, Zhejiang Huangyan bamboo carving is not only very popular all over China, but also is exported to more than 80 countries or areas overseas.

Source: topchinatrip.com