Cantonese hardwood furniture making skills are an important representative of Guangzhou's traditional folk handicrafts. More than 300 years ago, in the Chongzhen Palace of the late Ming Dynasty, there were already Cantonese furniture iron pear tilted head tables. In the Qing Dynasty, Cantonese furniture became the main source of palace furniture. The Palace Museum in Beijing still has a Qing Dynasty red sandalwood inlaid with kingfisher feathers and inlaid ivory figures. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with the frequent foreign trade in Guangzhou and the increase in cultural exchanges between China and the West, Cantonese furniture also entered its heyday and widely absorbed the expression techniques and styles of European Rococo and Baroque art. Its products are popular in Hong Kong and Macao, and are exported to Japan, Southeast Asia and many European countries. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out in the last century, Guangzhou was occupied by the Japanese army, and Cantonese furniture fell into depression. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it gradually recovered and developed. The inheritance continues to this day. It is now distributed in various districts in Guangzhou and surrounding areas, especially concentrated in Shangxiajiu Road, Xiguan, and Xinsheng Street in Liwan District. Its production has the longest history. Cantonese furniture is mostly made of precious hardwoods such as red sandalwood, rosewood, and rosewood. The main production area is Guangzhou, so it is called "Cantonese hardwood furniture". The materials used are extremely exquisite. The hardwood used must be dark in color, dense in texture, and fine in grain. A piece of furniture only uses one type of wood, never mixed with each other, and even only one piece of wood. The production process includes design, cutting, blanking, decoration, polishing, waxing, assembly and other procedures. Each process must be precise and meticulous, and carefully carved and polished. Blanking pays special attention to the overall shape and structure to reflect the unique style of Cantonese furniture. The decoration process is the most distinctive, with both Baroque-style carving, inlaying, and painting, and Rococo-style combining multiple techniques and methods. The carving techniques include relief, round carving, line carving, etc., especially openwork carving, with refined knife skills, strong sense of layers, and exquisite whole body; the inlay is more exquisite, and many new techniques have been created, including marble inlay with marble in the table top or chair back, mother-of-pearl inlay with colorful thick slices of mother-of-pearl as the material, amber, agate, coral, gemstone, gold, silver, ivory, horn, wood, porcelain, etc. as the material of treasure inlay, and bone inlay with different styles of high inlay, flat inlay, high and flat mixed inlay, etc. In addition, there are decorative techniques such as gilding, painting, yellow pasting, and cloisonné enamel, and they are often used together, bringing the inlay craft to the extreme. The carefully decorated furniture is finally polished and waxed. Generally, no paint is applied to expose the wood to show its natural color. Cantonese hardwood furniture includes cabinets, beds, tables, chairs and stools, etc. The decoration patterns are rich and colorful, including dragons, phoenixes, lions, seasonal flowers, pastoral scenery and stories of ancient heroes. The decorative effect is bright and bright, brilliant and beautiful, the shape is vigorous and steady, the style is complicated and elaborate, elegant and brilliant. Li Yu, a famous dramatist in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, was amazed by the "excellent manufacturing method and extremely skillful craftsmanship" after visiting red sandalwood and rosewood furniture in Guangdong. As an important branch of my country's traditional furniture system, Cantonese hardwood furniture, with its unique manufacturing skills that integrate Chinese and Western cultures, occupies an important position in the history of furniture craftsmanship and was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008. Due to the increasing scarcity of precious hardwood raw materials, the fierce impact of modern new material furniture, the difficulty of mastering traditional manufacturing skills, and the low success rate, Cantonese hardwood furniture has faced the crisis of business difficulties and inheritance discontinuity, and urgently needs to be supported and protected. Yang Xia Yang Xia, born in 1937, is a national intangible cultural heritage project, inheritor of the Cantonese hardwood furniture making skills, a member of the China Arts and Crafts Society, and a member of the China Ming-style Furniture Society. Yang Xia's ancestors made rosewood furniture for four generations. The first generation was Yang Ge; the second generation was Yang Guang; his father Yang Yu was the third generation, but he died early. The brothers Yang Xia and Yang Guanghai inherited their father's business, which is considered -. In 1958, Yang Xia entered Shengli Aurora Furniture Society (the predecessor of Guangzhou Woodcarving Furniture Factory). In just a few years, he changed from a carpenter to a craftsman. Later, he served as the director of the design studio, responsible for product design and technical transformation. Over the years, Yang Xia has been constantly interested in rosewood furniture......more>>> Yang Xia Yang Xia, born in 1937, inheritor of the Cantonese hardwood furniture making skills, a national intangible cultural heritage project, a member of the China Arts and Crafts Society, and a member of the China Ming-style Furniture Society. Yang Xia's ancestors made rosewood furniture for four generations. The first generation was Yang Ge; the second generation was Yang Guang; his father Yang Yu was the third generation, but he died early. Yang Xia and Yang Guanghai inherited his father's business, which is considered to be -. In 1958, Yang Xia entered Shengli Aurora Furniture Society (the predecessor of Guangzhou Woodcarving Craft Furniture Factory). In just a few years, he changed from a carpenter to a craftsman. Later, he served as the director of the design studio, responsible for product design and technical transformation. Over the years, Yang Xia has been constantly interested in rosewood furniture......more>>> Yang Xia, born in 1937, is a national intangible cultural heritage project Cantonese hardwood furniture making skills inheritor, a member of the China Arts and Crafts Association, and a member of the China Ming-style Furniture Association. Yang Xia's ancestors made rosewood furniture for four generations. The first generation was Yang Ge; the second generation was Yang Guang; his father Yang Yu was the third generation, but he died early. Yang Xia and Yang Guanghai inherited his father's business, which is considered to be -. In 1958, Yang Xia joined Shengli Rosewood Furniture Company (the predecessor of Guangzhou Woodcarving Craft Furniture Factory). In just a few years, he changed from a carpenter to a craftsman. Later, he became the director of the design studio, responsible for product design and technical improvement. Over the years, Yang Xia has been constantly......more>>>