Jinxian Wengang Microcarving

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Microcarving is a kind of art work that uses the smallest blade to create the smallest relief, three-dimensional carving, seal carving, and flat graphic carving in the smallest space. It cannot be seen with the naked eye and requires the help of a high-power magnifying glass to see clearly. Microcarving art is a highly difficult comprehensive art that integrates multiple skills such as carving, calligraphy and painting, fine work, and static work. Microcarving artworks are drawn from a wide range of materials and are highly arbitrary. They can be seen carving objects. Microcarving artists must first be calligraphers, painters, and sculptors, and they also reflect the author's will and intention. Microcarving art is the essence of the excellent traditional skills of the Chinese nation. It has always been cherished by the world, repeatedly ranked first in national gifts, and is often collected by knowledgeable people at home and abroad. Microcarving is widely distributed throughout the country, and the Maogan microcarving in Wengang Town, Jinxian County is magnificent and unique, "the first to create the purple bamboo pen microcarving art" (World Guinness). The "Wengang Microcarving" represented by Zhou Xinxing includes not only bamboo, mahogany, ox horn, bone, large brush, ivory and other materials of hair-shaft microcarving art, but also bamboo slips, forest slips, gold and stone, seals, jade seals, ivory seals, ivory products, teapots of various materials, pendants, ceramics, hair inlaid seals, rice grain ivory and other microcarving art. Its artistic characteristics of "one micro, two auspicious, three unique" have become a golden signboard of "China's Pen Capital". Many classic works created by Wengang Microcarving over the past decades have been collected by the National Museum, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, the Beijing Lu Xun Museum and collectors at home and abroad, making important contributions to the development of Chinese folk art, especially microcarving art.

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