Dongyang - The Chinese Art Of Wood Carving

Dongyang City is located in the center of Zhejiang province, near Shanghai and is famous for its elaborately carved woodwork. 

This is one of the largest centers of wood carving of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to the present time. Wood carving in Dongyang city has a long history, so in honor of the city it was like-named.

Dongyang once earned a reputation as one of the best commercial centers of China. Today the city is the center of one of the four main schools of woodcarving in China: There has traditionally been strengthened: carving gilded wood, in boxwood carving, wood carving, wood carving and Logan.

Izumetelnaya wooden carvings found in the Beijing Imperial Palace in the city of Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Anhui province. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1711-1799), about 400 craftsmen carving wood arrived in the capital to decorate wooden delights imperial palaces. The works of that period until now kept in the National Palace, the imperial palace in the capital.

After 1910, many woodcarvers from Dongyang gathered in the cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou to produce furniture and utensils for export, combining western and Chinese styles. In 1983 th, Dongyang China's State Council awarded the status of "City of Chinese wood carving.

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