Wood carving is an important part of the traditional Chinese carving art. 
Yanggu County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province is a millennial ancient city, 
where the Yellow River culture, canal culture, Water Margin culture, and Dongyi 
culture are blended, providing a cultural soil for folk art and traditional 
crafts, as well as the deposits of various traditional folk arts, among which 
Yanggu wood carving has a history of more than 200 years. The local wood 
carving works mostly originate from the story of Water Margin and local folk 
customs, with extremely complex production process from design, material 
selection, cutting, woodworking, to carving, assembly, polishing and waxing. 
Camphorwood, nanmu, sandalwood and other precious woods are often used as raw 
materials. In 2013, Yanggu wood carving was selected as intangible cultural 
heritage of Shandong Province, according to the Information Office of YangGu 
District People's Government.

68-year-old Wang Chuancheng is the representative inheritor of Yanggu wood 
carving in Shandong Province. In his exhibition hall, the wood carving works 
embody smooth and simple cutting technique, lively characters, and vivid 
natural shape. His representative works include Confucius, the Founder of the 
Thought of Great Harmony, Nine Phoenix Screen, Screen with Mountains, Waters, 
and Saints, etc.

Source: The Information Office of YangGu District People's Government

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   Caption: Yanggu wood carving still maintains the tradition of handicraft