Huizhou wood carvings are mainly brick carvings, with vivid two-dimensional and three-dimensional features, and are mainly used in ancient buildings.

Huizhou wood carvings cover a wide range of themes, including figures, landscapes, flowers, animals, fish and insects, cloud heads, fretwork, eight treasures, ancient text couplets, and various auspicious patterns. Those that focus on characters include celebrities' anecdotes, literary stories, opera librettos, religious myths, folk customs, folklore and social life; those that use landscapes as materials are mainly Huizhou scenic spots, such as Huangshan, Xin'anjiang and counties in Huizhou Representative landscapes; those with animals, flowers, trees, and patterns as the content are generally in the form of continuous patterns, and can also be independent paintings.

Huizhou wood carving adopts expression techniques such as round carving, relief carving, and openwork carving based on the needs and possibilities of the components of the building object. Wood carvings are usually used on beams, corbels, eaves, floor railings, Chinese boards, behind windows, railings, etc. on Huizhou Ji buildings to create rich and prosperous carvings. The borders of wood carvings are generally carved with entangled branch patterns, graceful and flowing, and are dazzling. Wood carvings consider both aesthetics and practicality. Generally, relief carvings are often used under windows and on upper railings and eaves around patios; round carvings are often used on beams, brackets, bridges, and even moon beams.

In terms of furniture, beds and wardrobes are most commonly used in wood carvings. These furniture are generally made of high-grade wood, and the surface of the wood carvings is decorated with vermilion lacquer and gold foil to make it more vivid and vivid.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Hui-style wood carving had begun to take shape, with a simple and rough style, mainly using plane bas-relief techniques. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, as the financial resources of Huizhou merchants increased, the awareness of Juyao rural areas became increasingly strong, and the art of wood carving gradually transitioned to fine carving, with multi-layer openwork carving replacing flat and shallow carving becoming the mainstream. After entering the Qing Dynasty, the pursuit of decorative beauty of wood carvings became more intense. They were painted with gold and carved through, and they were poor and gorgeous. Although they were exquisite workmanship, they were sometimes too cumbersome.

Today, fine wood carvings can still be seen everywhere in the counties under the jurisdiction of ancient Huizhou. A private house in Huangcun, Jianxian County, has all the beams, imitations, arches, brackets, and sparrows carved with exquisite detail, and is decorated with spiritual animals, birds, bats, and palindrome patterns. The layout is rigorous and the shape is beautiful. The 24-story carved back door surrounding the patio downstairs has a continuous patterned window in the upper half, a relief partition with flowers and birds in the lower half, and the middle horizontal panel connecting the upper and lower halves is engraved with opera stories, all of which are from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" drama. Above the entrance to the stairs on the right side of the hall, there is a wood carving painting that combines relief and engraving. The background is mountains, rocks, hills, and winding paths in bamboo forests. In the painting, a young woman leans on the bed and looks out, and there is a man holding an umbrella and holding an umbrella on his back. Carrying baggage and walking up the mountain road, this is a picture reflecting the "return to the country" of Jianjian's distant ancestors who were doing business abroad and then returned to their hometown. The characters in the painting are only a few inches long, but their features are vivid and lifelike, especially the woman leaning against the bed, gazing into the distance with a sad and focused expression, showing her longing for the return of her relatives; the traveling man, on the other hand, is dusty and busy In a hurry, returning home is like an arrow. With its exquisite composition and vivid shape, it can be regarded as the top hat among the existing Hui-style wood carvings. Huizhou woodcarving art has produced numerous famous craftsmen in the past dynasties. Liu Tiebi, Wang Sheng, Wang Laowu, Huang Yiren and Zhang Lifu are all recorded in local chronicles. Their wood carving art has been passed down from generation to generation and is even more popular today.