At present, the bamboo carving seen earlier in the Han and Tang Dynasties is a bamboo spoon with dragon patterns unearthed from the Western Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province. This embossed dragon painted bamboo spoon is 65cm long, made of bamboo and painted with black and red. The part near the top of the spoon handle is red and embossed with a black dragon, which is vivid and concise.

The image carving process of bamboo ware began in the Tang Dynasty, among which the most famous is the bamboo shakuhachi engraved with Hua Niaowen. Shakuhachi is a vertical wind instrument, named after the length of the pipe is about one foot eight inches. The existing bamboo shakuhachi of Tang Dynasty in China in Zhengcangyuan is 43.6 cm long, and its mouthpiece is 2.32 cm in diameter, with three knots and full ornamentation. There are 5 pressure holes on the front and 1 on the back. This shakuhachi is carved in blue with a shallow inscription, and there are patterns around the pressure L and above and below the node. Images of ladies, trees, flowers, birds and butterflies are distributed on the pipe, which are extremely exquisite and have the style of Tang Dynasty.

Throughout the history of bamboo carving, bamboo carving in Han and Tang dynasties is still in the primary stage of art, which is basically a single expression technique-line carving. It is characterized by paying attention to external modeling.