The production process of Pingyao lacquerware is complicated. It takes five to six times to scrape the ash. Each time, you must wait until the scraped ash is completely dry before you can start the next scraping. Pingyao lacquerware uses exquisite materials. Pingyao Tuiguang lacquerware uses lacquer, a natural lacquer that flows out after scraping off the bark of lacquer trees that are widely distributed in the Loess Plateau.

Pingyao lacquer art has a superb set of skills, and its production process mainly includes the following steps:

(1) Refining lacquer using special formulas, techniques and facilities;

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(2) The overcoat is made from lacquer and natural tung oil;

(3) The wooden body is covered with linen and ash, the ash of raw lacquer must be covered with cloth, the ash of pig blood must be covered with linen, and loess Glue requires paper;

(4) Make lacquer plugs (painting tools) from human hair and ox tail;

(5) Dry the lacquerware in the shade in a specially designed shady room;

(6) Gold painting, including traditional techniques such as flat gold and black, piled drum cover paint, hook gold, gold cover and eggshell inlay;

(7) Use sandpaper, Charcoal, hair, brick dust, sesame oil, etc. are pushed successively to make the lacquerware as bright as a mirror;

(8) Use techniques such as inlay, engraving, gold covering, and ash carving for decoration.

The production of lacquerware in Pingyao is divided into five processes: wooden tire, gray tire, lacquer worker, painter and inlay. After the wooden tire workshop uses pine wood to make wooden tires for various furniture, the gray tire workshop wraps the wooden tires with white linen and applies a layer of brick mortar mixed with pig blood. This is called "draping hemp and hanging ash".

The process in the paint shop is very detailed and complex. Every time you apply a coat of paint on a gray tire, you must first wipe it with sandpaper dipped in water. After wiping, push and rub it repeatedly with your hands until it feels smooth. Then paint, seven times at most and six times at least. The final push and rub is even more detailed. First use coarse water sandpaper to push, then use fine water sandpaper to push, use cotton cloth to push, silk paper to roll up a strand of human hair to push, dip your hands in sesame oil to push, dip your hands in soybean oil to push, and push with your palms repeatedly. With eyesight, carefulness, feeling, and frequency, the paint surface will be shiny and smooth.

Painters and inlay workshops have higher technical requirements. Painters must study painting for more than four years and master the basic skills of painting before they are allowed to draw red and green dots on the paint surface and operate independently. The cutting edge of a carving worker needs to be like the edge of a pen, with alternating thickness and thickness, moderate depth, and free ups and downs. On the production table where the original inlays are made, there are clouds of purple smoke and tinkling sounds. The workers process mussel shells, mother-of-pearl, ivory and colored stones into various original pieces. The inlay workers skillfully set and glue them firmly according to the requirements of the pattern. . Before the Qing Dynasty, polished lacquerware was painted with gold on a plain background. In the early Qing Dynasty, gold lacquerware was mainly used. In the middle period, new techniques of thickening the lacquer layer and applying luster were invented. The unique craftsmanship style combined with painting. The paint surface should be as bright as a mirror. It will become brighter and brighter after polishing, making it suitable for long-term display. Paintings and decorations depict landscapes, flowers and birds, pavilions, pavilions or people's stories, with meticulous and complex processes. It has the characteristics of fine structure, smooth paint surface, gorgeous painting, moisture-proof and heat-proof.