Yangjiang lacquer art, which is distributed in the urban area of Yangjiang City in southwest Guangdong, began in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. It was already well-known in China in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. It was most prosperous in the 1930s, and its products were exported to Southeast Asia and even Europe and the United States. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, many skilled craftsmen were displaced in the war. By 1949, the lacquer art industry was dying. In the 1950s, Yangjiang County in the Central Plains successively established lacquerware production cooperatives and lacquerware craft factories. Yangjiang lacquer art has gained vigorous vitality, and the lacquerware produced has reached more than 500 varieties, which are exported abroad and are very popular. There are many types of Yangjiang lacquer art, including leather-based lacquer, wood-based lacquer, hemp-based lacquer, metal-based lacquer, paper-based lacquer and porcelain-based lacquer. Yangjiang lacquer art mainly uses natural raw lacquer. Later, because raw lacquer could not meet the demand, cashew lacquer, a substitute coating called "Yangjiang lacquer", was developed. The process of lacquerware production is extremely complicated. The main techniques include inlaying colored surfaces, mother-of-pearl, shells, gold-painted lacquer, flower-painting, and printing. The surface lacquer decoration is traditionally black and vermilion. After the use of cashew lacquer, the lacquer decoration process has undergone new changes, adding a variety of decorative techniques such as grinding, gold, silver, copper, and tin, making the lacquerware more colorful. Traditional Yangjiang lacquerware is mostly practical products, such as suitcases, tea cups, jewelry boxes, seal boxes, and glasses cases. They are light, strong, moisture-proof, heat-resistant, alkali-resistant, and long-lasting. The leather-based lacquer products have the most traditional characteristics. One of the representative works is the leather-carved "Longevity Golden Flower Lacquer Box", which is exquisitely made, simple and elegant in shape, and beautifully embossed with flowers and birds. It won the gold medal at the 1936 Nanyang International Goods Competition. Yangjiang lacquer art attaches great importance to lacquering. Many practical products are carefully painted, inlaid, covered with gold, and polished, which are colorful, elegant, and dazzling, and have appreciation and collection value. In the 1950s and 1960s, Yangjiang lacquer art developed the traditional flower-drawing lacquer craft and produced a new variety of wood-panel lacquer painting. Lacquer painting requires the use of specially configured paints, pigments, and foil materials. The production combines multiple techniques such as painting, inlaying, lacquering, carving, filling, and grinding. The works have a strong Lingnan style. The representative work "Goshawk" was selected as a national gift to foreign senior dignitaries, "Claw Leaf Plum" is collected by the National Art Museum of China, and the lacquer mural "Sunflower Township" is displayed in the Great Hall of the People. With the rise of various new materials and daily necessities, practical lacquerware products have been severely impacted, production has been shrinking, and artistic lacquerware has gradually been neglected. Today, there are only a few old masters still engaged in lacquer art, and most of them have no successors. Yangjiang lacquer art is on the verge of being lost.