How many years has China used raw lacquer?
Raw lacquer is a unique forest product in China with a long history. It has been recorded for thousands of years. In the first chapter of Yan in the Yuan Dynasty, "Learn from the ancients" said: "There is no pen and ink in ancient times, and bamboo is used to draw books on bamboo." Han Feizi wrote in more than a dozen stories: "Yao Zen is the world, adapting it, cutting it for eating utensils and logging ... still as a black device, ... is the world, following it, being a ritual vessel, painting outside and Zhu inside." The cultural relic lacquerware unearthed in China has a history of more than 2000 years, and its color is as bright as new, far from the beauty of modern synthetic lacquer, so it is called "the king of coatings". As early as the Han and Tang Dynasties, China's exquisite lacquerware and lacquer-making skills spread to Japan and Korea. Thailand, Myanmar, India, France, Germany, Italy and other Eurasian countries. For example, Masakura Academy in Japan has a collection of clay figurine paintings, gold and silver paintings and so on in the Tang Dynasty. Another example is the lacquerware made by the famous Robert and Martin in continental Europe. Their mode of production is just like our country. This is what Europeans call the "Rococo" artistic style of blending China and Europe. The production and utilization of raw lacquer in China has a long history and rich experience in cultivation, cutting and production. However, under the long-term feudal rule, imperialist plunder and the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang for nearly a hundred years, the production of raw lacquer has always been in the mode of scattered wild resources and small-scale production and management, and its development is very slow. After liberation, the party and people's government attached great importance to the production of raw lacquer. With the development of national economy, the state has formulated the development plan of raw lacquer production and the management, purchase and distribution methods of raw lacquer, which not only developed the mountain economy, but also supported the needs of socialist construction and foreign trade.