Bai Ethnic Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience in Dali | Jianchuan Woodcarving

Explore the beauty of Dali's intangible cultural heritage and visit Xingyi Woodcarving in Jianchuan. Enjoy the wonderful time of carving between hammers, axes, planes, and chisels! 🖼️ Visiting the Woodcarving Exhibition Hall: Located in Jianchuan Ancient City, Xingyi Woodcarving is our destination for this Trip Moments. In the exhibition halls and pavilions on the second floor, I was completely amazed by the woodcarving artworks inside. Inside the three large exhibition halls, there are collections exhibition halls, boutique exhibition halls, and antique collections halls. There are too many exquisite wood carvings in the exhibition hall. After a simple lunch of a large bowl of Ersi with two toppings for 12 yuan, I hurried back to continue my Trip Moments. In the exhibition hall, there are representative woodcarving works of many intangible cultural heritage inheritors and masters, various certificates, as well as antique wood carvings and exquisite wood carvings. 📸 Trip Moments of Craftsmen Carving: After going down from the second-floor exhibition hall and walking further inside, I entered the carving workshop of the craftsmen on the right-hand side and saw them all concentrating on carving. From their eyes, I saw the perseverance and persistence of the craftsmen, and the unique beauty of "hammering, axing, planing, and chiseling." I didn't dare to speak loudly, for fear of disturbing the carving precision of the craftsmen. I quickly changed the shooting angle to record the beautiful woodcarving life I encountered at this moment. After the wood goes through the craftsmanship of material selection, cutting, blank making, polishing, grinding, and painting, ordinary wood is carved into exquisite paintings in the hands of Jianchuan craftsmen. Using techniques such as flat carving, relief carving, three-dimensional carving, and openwork carving, even decayed wood can become carving material when it meets Jianchuan craftsmen. Between the carving and chiseling of wood, after thousands of hammers and hundreds of planes, the perfect transformation process from ordinary trees to woodcarving works is completed. ✨ Visiting the Woodcarving Heritage Learning Center: After hurriedly bidding farewell to the craftsmen's woodcarving workshop, we went straight out and arrived at the quadrangle-style heritage learning center. Facing the "threshold" of the gate, two women in ethnic costumes were concentrating on carving crafts. After a while, an elderly man came and gave carving guidance to the two carving craftsmen. After careful and patient guidance, the students' sudden enlightenment and smiles were written all over their faces. Later, I learned that this old master was the famous master Duan Guoliang. He is the father of Duan Sixing and a national-level inheritor of woodcarving intangible cultural heritage. 🌹 Summary of Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience: ◆ Jianchuan travel, Trip Moments of woodcarving intangible cultural heritage skills, enjoy the wonderful time of carving between hammers, axes, planes, and chisels! If you are traveling to Jianchuan, Dali, it is worth experiencing it yourself! ◆ There are many other fun places in Jianchuan, such as: Jianhu Lake, especially the small woods area of Jianhu Lake, is a place with beautiful scenery. Sangling Ancient Village on the east side of Jianhu Lake is at its most beautiful in April when the fringe trees are in full bloom, like April snow. ◆ There are also many delicacies in Jianchuan, such as: "Shanlao Tui" hot pot, the popular snack "Wangji Liangfen," Diannan "Three Dishes," and Ersi with two toppings.