How beautiful can lacquerware in China be?
Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware is one of the four largest lacquerware in China, and it is an artistic treasure with unique national style and strong local characteristics. Together with Beijing Cloisonne and Jiangxi Jingdezhen Porcelain, it is also known as the "Three Treasures" of China's traditional crafts, and has enjoyed a good reputation at home and abroad for more than 200 years. Fuzhou lacquerware began in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the painter Shen Shaoan found in a temple that the plaque at the gate was rotten, but the bottom embryo of the lacquered gray summer cloth was intact. The careful Shen Shaoan got inspiration from it and has been pondering the experiment since he returned to China? Inheriting and carrying forward the traditional lacquer art, the earliest bodiless lacquer ware was created. Therefore, Shen Shaoan became the originator of Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware. A remarkable feature of Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware is that it is "magnificent in color and bright as a mirror", and people's love for it depends on the richness and diversity of decoration to some extent. Second, Yangzhou Lacquerware Since the 1950s, as many as 10,000 pieces of lacquerware and its fragments have been unearthed in many Han tombs in the suburbs of Yangzhou. Most of its fetal bones are made of wood, so some scholars call Yangzhou the birthplace of China wooden fetal lacquerware. There are also many dry paint clips, also known as bodiless paint, and a small number of bamboo tires, copper tires and leather tires. By the Yuan Dynasty, Yangzhou had become the national lacquerware production center. Qi Diao is particularly exquisite. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the "point snail" technology appeared. Ming and Qing Dynasties are the heyday of Yangzhou lacquerware history, with many famous artists and various products. At the end of Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou lacquerware was exported to Europe and America, with an annual sales volume of more than 20,000 pieces and an annual income of 32,000 pieces. Third, Pingyao push light lacquerware according to historical records? Pingyao Tuiguang lacquerware began in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1200 years. Push-gloss paint comes from the plant lacquer tree and is called "old paint" and "big paint". The production of push-light lacquerware has a unique process. First, select the wood, make the tire, then sew it with pig blood and brick powder, then start to color with natural old paint, polish and repaint it several times, and finally dip your palm in sesame oil to brighten the paint surface. Then, after deliberation, gold painting, painting and other processes, various patterns such as landscape figures, birds and beasts, pavilions, exotic flowers and grasses were displayed respectively. Push-light lacquerware, the paint color is sparkling, and the reflection is like a mirror, also known as "golden lacquer furniture". Fourth, Chengdu lacquerware Chengdu lacquerware is also called halogen lacquer. The world-famous lacquerware of the Han Dynasty unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province, engraved with chromium records of "Stone Becomes Grass" and "Stone Becomes Man", was exported to Pyongyang (Gulelang County) during the Warring States Period.