Donghai bamboo carving has a long history and is an excellent folk traditional craft in Lufeng. It carves a variety of decorative patterns and texts on bamboo utensils, or various furnishings. Its works are simple and elegant, meticulously crafted, with dense patterns and endless changes. It can be called a gorgeous wonder in the history of Lufeng arts and crafts. It has been included in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage lists of Shanwei City. Donghai's bamboo carving art has a long history. It is said that it has a history of more than 200 years. Its predecessor was the production of simple bamboo products for daily bamboo packaging such as baskets and bamboo furniture. Later, after several generations of exploration and innovation by artists who inherited gold lacquer wood carving, it gradually became an art and has been appreciated and loved by people. Donghai bamboo carving technology is mainly reflected in the carving and engraving in the sense of reduction. That is to say, from the outside to the inside, step by step by subtracting waste, the shape is gradually excavated and revealed. In the subtraction modeling again and again, people can not only experience the pleasure of the work "coming out of the shell". Even because of the characteristics of bamboo or excessive force, it may be thrilling to cut off the places that should not be cut off, but if handled properly, it may also be joyful because of the dangers. At the same time, you can also feel the special charm produced in the process of using various knife techniques. Some accidental effects can give the work a new meaning. Therefore, in the traditional Donghai bamboo carving art creation, it is a psychologically changeable, complex and meaningful process. The formation of beautiful knife techniques is the performance of the skill reaching maturity. It is something that is difficult to embody in any imitation. Therefore, the bamboo carving art of Donghai can only achieve the ideal knife technique that truly belongs to oneself by mastering skills and constantly accumulating experience. After the founding of New China, the party and the government founded the Donghai Bamboo Craft Factory and established a carving innovation group in order to continue and inherit this traditional carving skill. At the same time, mechanized equipment was added, a large number of skilled carving craftsmen were absorbed, and a group of artists were hired as craftsmen and designers. In the early 1980s, Donghai bamboo carving entered its heyday, and the skills were superbly surpassed, which promoted the great development of the traditional bamboo carving industry. There are three main categories: palace lanterns, jewelry boxes, and bamboo tea boxes, with a total of more than 3,000 art appreciation and practical items, which are exported to 48 countries and regions in five continents, including the United States, Britain, France, Japan, New Zealand, and Mauritius. Product processing radiates to Luhe, Wuhua, Meixian, Heyuan, Haizhou, Shantou, Haifeng, Huiyang and other places. It has promoted the development of bamboo processing industry in these areas. Dongguan, Foshan, Heyuan, Meizhou, Shantou, Huiyang and other places often send people to visit and study in the factory. Former provincial party secretary Xi Zhongxun, Ren Zhongyi and other leaders have visited the factory for personal guidance. In 1979, Yu Rong, a bamboo carving artist from Donghai, was sent by the country to the Republic of Seychelles to teach bamboo carving technology. He was highly valued by the Seychelles government and a personal exhibition of bamboo carving crafts was held for him. The spread of Donghai bamboo carving art and culture, which represents the country, in Seychelles is a historical influence of China's promotion of bamboo culture, development of bamboo products, development of bamboo economy, and going to the world. Donghai bamboo carvings are colorful, exquisite in style, and wonderful. It is to carve a variety of decorative patterns and texts on bamboo utensils, or to carve bamboo roots into various decorative ornaments. Its expression techniques include negative lines, positive carvings, round carvings, openwork carvings, deep and shallow reliefs or high reliefs. Its production is refined by drawing on the depth and shallow outline techniques of wood, jade, ivory carvings and Chinese paintings. In the early days, figures, landscapes, flowers and birds were usually carved on utensils. Nowadays, some bamboo carvings are simple, simple and generous, while others are finely crafted, with dense patterns and endless changes. It highlights the visual and texture charm of the works and gives people a beautiful artistic enjoyment. Donghai bamboo carving not only has a deep cultural heritage, but also has high ornamental value, collection value, and important artistic value and economic value: Donghai bamboo carving not only inherits the bamboo carving art ecology of the ancestors, but also pushes the bamboo carving craft to a new level, and also promotes the social and economic development of the Donghai region. In recent years, the market for bamboo carving artworks in Donghai has been active, collection and investment have become hot, and prices have also been rising. At the China Export Commodities Fair, bamboo carvings such as three-dimensional dragon and auspicious cloud lanterns, jewelry boxes, pen holders, pendants and other various bamboo carving products were favored by foreign merchants from the United States, Britain, France, Japan, New Zealand, Mauritius and other countries, contributing to the country's export earnings. Source: "Lufeng Intangible Cultural Heritage"