Shell painting (Ganyu shell carving) (expanded), a traditional art project of the fifth batch of Lianyungang City-level representative expansion projects of intangible cultural heritage. Shell carving is a handicraft carved from shells, with natural color, pearly crystal, simple and elegant, and rich marine charm. The use of shells was strung into chains as decoration as early as the period of the Upper Cave Man 5,000 years ago. From the Shang Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, a kind of shellfish was used as currency for a long time. After the Han Dynasty, artists of successive generations used the color of shells to carve various patterns and inlay them on bronzes, mirrors, screens, tables and chairs for decoration. Shell carving is one of the local folk arts of Ganyu. The county's coastline is winding and up to (meters), and it is rich in various shellfish. After being washed and washed by the waves for a long time, the shells are colorful and of various shapes, which are exquisite and translucent. From the shell strings and shell piles in the six coastal towns to the large-scale shell carving paintings in Qingkou Town, after hundreds of years of development, the folk artists of Ganyu have continuously discovered, forged, inherited and innovated, making the shell carving art into the treasure house of Chinese traditional culture and becoming a wonderful flower of folk crafts. It has won national and provincial awards many times. In the early 1990s, Lianyungang shell carving was one of the five major production bases in the country. The craftsmanship of Ganyu shell carving is complicated. It is necessary to conceive and design patterns, line drawing combination diagrams, material decomposition diagrams, shell raw materials selection, first grinding and rough blanks with grinding wheels, and then rough carving of face blocks, followed by fine carving with various techniques such as line engraving, dotting, splitting, etc., and it also needs to go through water grinding before entering the polishing (can also be pickled) and coloring processes, and matched with wooden frame glass. The colors are bright and the three-dimensional sense is strong. Mother-of-pearl inlay is a form of shell carving. It uses the Qiqi casting process to create various shapes, combined with Qihua art and cloisonné craft to create shell round sculptures. The work breaks through the limitation of the original shell carving painting attached to the bottom frame. Focusing on the overall shape of the shell, it uses inlay decoration and other creative techniques, and is meticulously carved to present a three-dimensional all-round artistic beauty. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)