KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 5 (Bernama) -- As a handicraft of Yucheng, Shandong, Deyuan charcoal carving is a harmonious mix of the traditional art of carving and painting with the intangible cultural heritage of the legend of Yu the Great Who Tamed the Floods.
According to a statement, these works materialise folklore into charcoal carvings, turn audible folklore into visual arts for reflection, and bring the culture of Dayu (Yu the Great) to life.
It embodies the success of the creative translation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture in the new era.
Despite the small size, the charcoal carving conveys a profound message. It is made of high-quality coconut shell carbon, mineral carbon and other powdered activated carbon through over ten procedures from high-pressure forming, activation, carving, polishing to drawing, among others.
Designed with simple and natural colours, the small-sized charcoal carving artworks mostly draw on traditional Chinese cultural themes such as Confucius, Yu the Great, "five cows", and Peking Opera masks, to highlight the 5,000 years of Chinese civilisation.
Yucheng, named after Yu the Great who succeeded in flood taming, is the birthplace of Chinese farming civilisation and one of China's 100 millennia-old ancient counties.
In 2021, the legend of Yu the Great Who Tamed the Floods was included in the fifth batch of intangible cultural heritage in Shandong Province.
-- BERNAMA
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