portant; float: none;”>Root carving (根雕gēn diāo)（根雕艺术 gēn diāo yì shù）"portant; float: none;”>The process of creating root art includes four steps:
1. Root selecion (选材xuǎn cái). 2. Conception（构思gòusī). 3. Processing（雕刻diāokè). 4. Coloring and lacquering（涂色túsè与上漆shàngqī).China has a long history of root carving: Primitive people began to make effigies out of wood for ornaments. In 1982, when cleaning the No. 1 tomb of the Chu state excavated in Mashan, a local museum employee in Jingzhou County, Hubei Province discovered a root carving believed to have been made between 340 and 270BC in the late Warring States Period – 2,300 years ago. It featured a four-legged animal with a tiger’s head, a dragon’s body and a rabbit’s tail; its manner was full of verve and simple and elegant in hue. By the Sui and Tang dynasties, root art was very prosperous. Records from The Biography of Li Mi present a root carving piece entitled "Dragon-shaped Claw" made from a crude tree root for the emperor. Root carving artwork from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), such as the "Phoenix" and "Jade Dragon", have been on display in Yuyuan in Shanghai until today. These works thoroughly exhibit the verves of root carving.
1. Root selecion (选材xuǎn cái). 2. Conception（构思gòusī). 3. Processing（雕刻diāokè). 4. Coloring and lacquering（涂色túsè与上漆shàngqī).China has a long history of root carving: Primitive people began to make effigies out of wood for ornaments. In 1982, when cleaning the No. 1 tomb of the Chu state excavated in Mashan, a local museum employee in Jingzhou County, Hubei Province discovered a root carving believed to have been made between 340 and 270BC in the late Warring States Period – 2,300 years ago. It featured a four-legged animal with a tiger’s head, a dragon’s body and a rabbit’s tail; its manner was full of verve and simple and elegant in hue. By the Sui and Tang dynasties, root art was very prosperous. Records from The Biography of Li Mi present a root carving piece entitled "Dragon-shaped Claw" made from a crude tree root for the emperor. Root carving artwork from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), such as the "Phoenix" and "Jade Dragon", have been on display in Yuyuan in Shanghai until today. These works thoroughly exhibit the verves of root carving.
The number of root-art factories continues to climb in provinces such as Sichuan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian and so on, with root-art works reaching new levels. Thanks to its originality and unique artistic appeal, Chinese root art is winning the hearts of more and more people.
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