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Chinese wood Carvings
The Chinese wood carving contained two branches: wood carving of art, and wood furniture sculptural.
The wood carving of art is an old-line art in China; it can be traced back to the New Stone Age. Our ancestors mad the articles for daily use with the simple stone tools, and the primitive art of wood carving accordingly appeared. Although wood works were hard to be preserved, especially after thousands of years, we are handpicked some of them, in order to give you a contour of this storied arts of China.
Chinese sculptural art, while differing greatly from its western counterparts, has thrived in a long historical process of development in many aspects. Chinese stone carving enjoys a long history and was famous for its outstanding achievements all over the world as early as in Han and Tang dynasties.
The four significant kinds of stone Carvings which are prominent in the Chinese stone craving history are the following: QinTian stone carving, ShouShan stone carving, ChangHua stone craving and BaLing stone carving. Many of the works have become precious artistic pearls in the treasure house of Chinese art. The craftsmen made full use of the different colors of the stone materials and sculpted them into various masterpieces through adroit skills. Stone carving is one brilliant page in Chinese cultural and civilization history.
Chinese sculpture has its origins in the Xia Dynasty (21st-16th century BC). During the Qin Dynasty, lifelike terracotta burial figures of soldiers and horses were created for the tomb of Qin Shihuang, the First Qin Emperor. Due to nature's inconceivable works and mankind craftsmanship our predecessor had left behind for us the historical seal, which enhance the appreciation, admiration and sensation that follow the locus of beauty. The discovery and excavation of thousands of these figures from the Emperor's tomb in Xi'an shook the world, and they were hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by foreign archeologists.
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