Calabash handicraft reason for being people’s favorite, because it has varied shapes and craftsmanship. After working through the natural gourd, the surface can produce complex patterns, but also by changing the gourd shape, to achieve a wonderful artistic beauty.
Gourd
Hundreds gourd crafts made of bowls, pots, bottles, pots, boxes, cans, stove and so on. Gourd can be used for daily necessities, can charge, containing tobacco and feed insects, it can also be used as a simple ornamental ornaments. Special texture and color gourd has, filled with a fresh and natural gas, gives a simple, dignified aesthetic sense. Mature gourd yellow like gold, the longer the time, the color grows. Plus a few decades or even centuries of stroke play, including pulp and finally to the extent of smooth purple fountain, antique, very enjoyable.
Calabash handicraft, gourd device, is a natural beauty and craftsmanship into one traditional crafts. The earliest is a water palace with the tools, then gradually developed into aristocratic palace play with decorative items, prepared by the Royal gourd craft also will pay attention to, the production of increasingly sophisticated, Pao is the development of technology in the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi to the peak, there has been pen , flowers inserted, cups, bowls, Grasshopper cage, new style cricket cans, gourd is rich ornamentation. Some of the court system is further Pao as a precious gift to reward the nobility and foreign guests envoys. After the mid-Qing Dynasty, fire painting, embossing, and other system Daoke gourd craft after another, these works are based on the natural waist gourd Asia-based, gesture occur, the state is different, highly ornamental value.
