The decorative techniques used in Tianshui Qi Diao are mostly stone inlays. People, flowers, birds, animals and cultural relics are assembled and carved with colored stones, ivory and jade, embedded on screens or desktops, and decorative methods such as silver inlay, gilding, brocade printing, fetal flowers, gold painting and painting are alternately used to make them more stereoscopic, vivid and realistic.

In addition, a small number of products are used for color painting and sculpture. Lacquer painting screen's painting is to use paint pigments in daily life to make detailed and heavy color paintings directly on the paint surface. Although the viscosity of raw lacquer is high, it should be as smooth as a brush.

Carving and filling is to carve patterns on the paint surface and then fill the paint with pigments. The two are integrated, and no matter which decoration method is adopted, the layout is generally full.