Secondly, put it indoors and often wipe the handle with hands or cotton cloth to make the gourd size, so that the branding will not fade after sizing. Then put it in a paper box to prevent moisture, chemical erosion, bump and moth when it is not placed. When maintaining insect tools, you can wrap a little pepper in a small cloth and put it in a gourd.
The gourd itself has different shapes and beautiful shapes, and it will give people a happy and peaceful aesthetic feeling without artificial carving.
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Gourd crafts have been recorded in writing since the Ming Dynasty, and the gourd has a beautiful shape, which gives people a happy and peaceful aesthetic feeling without artificial carving. In the Qing Dynasty, Lanzhou's "carved gourd" and "model gourd" reached a high artistic level and became court tributes.
At that time, the "fire stewing process" was adopted to combine the wooden materials of gourd with the traditional techniques of hot stamping in China, using a soldering iron as a ghostwriter, and using techniques such as simple drawing, meticulous brushwork and freehand brushwork in Chinese painting;
Works such as figures, landscapes, flowers, birds and animals are created on the smooth and hard wooden skin of the gourd. With the artist's understanding of art and skillful use of soldering iron, the picture presents a variety of levels such as coke, black, brown, yellow and white, and the rendering effect of Chinese painting is very rich.