Bodiless lacquerware production process

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The production process of bodiless lacquerware in Yuanzhou District, Yichun (the first batch at the provincial level) The production of bodiless lacquerware in Yuanzhou District, Yichun, relies on pure manual operation and has complex processes. Generally, there are dozens of processes such as modeling, bodiless, painting, polishing, and decoration. The main materials are raw lacquer, tung oil, summer cloth, etc. During production, raw lacquer, tung oil, gypsum powder, etc. are mixed into a paste according to a certain proportion, and then evenly applied on the summer cloth, and then the summer cloth is mounted on the mold with a good shape. After the embryo is dried in the shade and fixed, the embryo is taken off, and the bodiless lacquerware is named after this. After the embryo is processed, it is painted, polished, decorated, and dozens of other complex manual operation procedures are carried out, and finally polished and decorated. The traditional decoration method is mainly lacquer engraving, such as line engraving and tinning, which is one of them. This process is a unique decoration method in the lacquerware industry nationwide. The bodiless lacquerware technique in Yuanzhou District, Yichun is a traditional handicraft with a strong national style and local characteristics. Its products are famous for their lightness, exquisiteness, beautiful colors, and economical affordability. Lacquerware is also popular because it is strong and easy to carry. There are more than 200 varieties of traditional bodiless lacquerware products in Yuanzhou District, Yichun, which are divided into eight categories, namely boxes, bottles, plates, sculptures, antiques, canes, religious utensils, lions, birthday stars, Guanyin, fruit boxes, tea bottles, canes, etc. The products are beautiful and have strong ethnic characteristics. In recent years, pure artworks such as hanging screens, sculptures, lacquer paintings, etc. have been developed, forming three series of practical, packaging, and decorative arts, with a total of 680 varieties of colors. The works created by technicians Yang Zengyan, Xiong Liyong, Liu Youfa and others have been selected to be exhibited in the Great Hall of the People and at home and abroad. In the past 10 years, the bodiless lacquerware of Yuanzhou District, Yichun has won 15 awards at the provincial and ministerial levels. In 1990, it also won the "Quality Product Award" in the Ninth National Hundred Flowers Award for Handicrafts and the third place in the national industry evaluation. The products are exported to more than 20 countries and regions in Europe, America and Southeast Asia. As a folk handicraft, the bodiless lacquerware production skills of Yuanzhou District, Yichun have added a beautiful landscape to Chinese civilization. As early as the Qing Dynasty, it won the silver medal in international competitions, which brought honor to the Chinese nation and has historical value. This kind of handicraft product with ethnic characteristics has beautiful shapes, bright colors, diverse patterns and decorations, and simple and elegant style. It is deeply loved by the masses and is a treasure of Chinese folk handicrafts with high cultural and artistic value.

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