Xinjiang Cloud Carving（新绛云雕）,also called Jiangzhou Cloud Carving（绛州云雕）, produced in Xinjiang County(新绛县) of Shanxi Province's Yuncheng City, is a type of lacquer carving products with pictures of colorful fortune clouds. It is designed in an antique and elegant style. The lacquer is shiny; the carving is very exquisite and the pictures have very clear-cut structures. Take the cloud carving table for example, if you stare at the table for more than 10 seconds, you will feel as if the colorful clouds were flying slowly.

 

Xinjiang Cloud Carving, which can date back to the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, has formed a unique style after a series of modifications for so many dynasties. The procedure of making cloud carving is as below: firstly, paint red and black lacquer layers on the wooden models, generally 70 to 80 layers and more than 100 layers at most sometimes. Then carve the cloud waves with a sharp burin, which is 5 millimeters deep, wide in the upside and narrow in the downside with patterns of different colors and layers which seem like colorful clouds of different shapes. 

 

Jiangzhou cloud carving features its delicate structure, shiny and smooth surface, clear-cut layers and antiqueness. It can be found in the decoration of the palace of Qing Dynasty.

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