Root carving is made by the author according to the natural shape, texture, texture and color of roots, bark, branches, scars, bumps, holes and decay marks of bamboo roots. Give full play to the artistic imagination, through clever conception, a little carving and artistic processing. Root carving pays attention to vividness, not similarity and realism, and shows better natural interest. Root carving production is generally divided into material selection, modeling, splicing, carving and post-processing. Root carving works have a wide range of themes. The specification of the work depends on the size of the root pile. There are several kinds of practical products, such as tables and chairs, screens, crutches, etc., as well as appreciation products, which are used for elegant play and display in the living room.

Root carving, also known as root art or root carving, is to carve the root piles of various trees or bamboos into figures, animals and other images, usually referring to sculpture crafts carved from root piles.

It is said that Emperor Gao of Southern Qi once gave the hermit the best bamboo root carving. Han Yu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote poems describing root carving figures. In the Song Dynasty, the art of root carving was more mature. "Tai Ping Guang Ji" describes a lion carved with tree roots, whose claws, eyes, ears, feet and tail are known.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dai's "Tao An Meng" also recorded that the root carved wooden dragon was shaped like a dragon, rippled like scales and weighed 500 kilograms. During the Ming Dynasty and Jiajing period, Zhu, a bamboo carving artist in Jiading, Jiangsu (now Shanghai), and his sons Zhu and Sun Zhu Sansong were also good at carving figures and toads in the natural form of bamboo roots.

Famous root carving artists came forth in large numbers in Qing Dynasty, and their works were widely circulated all over the world. Jo Yeo-jeong, a modern scholar, recorded more than 50 famous root sculptors from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty in the Antique Guide. There are many Qing Dynasty root carvings in the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Since 1980s, China root carving has made great progress. From 65438 to 0986, China Arts and Crafts Society established the Root Carving Art Research Society to organize and guide the creation of root carvings. China's root carving works have been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Japan and China.