KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 15 (Bernama) -- Yanggu County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province is a millennial ancient city, where the Yellow River culture, canal culture, Water Margin culture, and Dongyi culture are blended, providing a cultural soil for folk art and traditional crafts.
In addition to this is the deposits of various traditional folk arts, among which Yanggu wood carving has a history of more than 200 years. Wood carving is an important part of the traditional Chinese carving art.
Wang Chuancheng, 68, is the representative inheritor of Yanggu wood carving in Shandong Province where his representative works include Confucius, the Founder of the Thought of Great Harmony, and Nine Phoenix Screen.
In his exhibition hall, the wood carving works embody smooth and simple cutting techniques, lively characters, and vivid natural shapes.
In 2013, Yanggu wood carving was selected as an intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province, according to a statement by the Information Office of YangGu District People’s Government.
The local wood carving works mostly originate from the story of Water Margin and local folk customs, with extremely complex production processes from design, material selection, cutting, and woodworking, to carving, assembly, polishing and waxing.
-- BERNAMA
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