The Bamboo Articles and The Wood Carving in China
1 min readBamboo Articles
The styles of bamboo articles vary from place to place.The bamboo articles in Zhejiang have superb forms，made with slender bamboo strips as the body and wider bamboo strips as handles.
Not only are they strong and durable，but also their different tints and widths produce diverse artistic effects.The bamboo articles in Fujian province have more than ten different patterns including the cross pattern and the flowering crabapple pattern，often tinged with gold or other colors to make it look more pretty.
Wood Carving
Wood carving refers to a folk handicraft involving carving decorative patterns or designs by hand on wood or wood ware；it also refers to the wood or carved wood ware.The famed wood carving technology today in China is mostly inherited from the Qing Dynasty，of which Dongyang wood carving in Zhejiang，mahogany carving of Suzhou，gold lacquer wood carving，palace lantern of Beijing and carved wood ship are the most representative carved wood ware today.The current wood carving technology is not only used as decorations on furniture and architecture，but also used as visualartistic handiwork such as statues of Buddha and arhats，animals，wall hangings，etc.
