Beijing's characteristic arts: cloisonne, Beijing carved lacquer, jade carving, inner painting pot, palace moving painting, palace lantern, Deng Sha, silk flower, glass feeder, woodcut watermark, veneer, jacquard cloth, Beijing woven carpet, hardwood furniture.
Cloisonne, a specialty of Beijing
Cloisonne is a unique traditional handicraft in Beijing. Named after the cloisonne period in the Ming Dynasty, it is characterized by blue glaze. Beijing is the birthplace of cloisonne technology, and the earliest existing cloisonne is the product of the Yuan Dynasty, which has a history of nearly a thousand years. To make cloisonne, we should first use red copper as a tire, then stick a pattern on the tire with flat and thin copper wire, and then embed the pattern with different colors of enamel glaze. After this process is completed, it is repeated sintering, polishing and gold plating. It can be said that the production process of cloisonne not only uses the bronze craft, but also uses the porcelain craft, and at the same time introduces a lot of traditional painting and carving skills, which can be regarded as a master of China's traditional crafts.
BeiJing Carved Lacquerware
Beijing Lacquer Carving was founded in the Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1400 years. Emperors and concubines of past dynasties loved and appreciated it, and it belonged to court art. 1949. After that, Qi Diao went from court to society and became a national handicraft for cultural exchange with people all over the world. Carved lacquer is unique, with brass as the inner tube, with bodiless (cloth tire) and wooden tire. Natural paint should be applied to the tire shape. Generally, at least 70 layers of carved paint should be applied, while the high-grade carved paint with hollowed-out carving should be applied with more than 500 layers of paint, with a paint thickness of about 300 mm, and then finely carved on the paint layer. Traditional carved lacquer is mainly red, black and yellow, while modern carved lacquer is mainly red and black, and various colors such as green, blue, brown, white and orange have been developed. Traditional carving methods are only relief and shallow carving, but today's artists have created round carving, semi-hollow carving and full hollow carving. After Qi Diao, there are dozens of processes such as polishing, lining and baking, all of which are manual operations. It takes at least 3 months to complete a Qi Diao, and at most 1 to 2 years.
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Beijing specialty
Beijing Carpet, Beijing Carved Lacquer, Cloisonne, Beijing Jade, Inner Painting Pot, Beijing Wine, Beijing Baifenglong, Angong Niuhuang Pill, Tiger Bone Wine, Beijing Embroidery/Beijing Noodles,