Hainan Crafts - Coconut Carving

The carving techniques of Hainan coconut carving include plane relief, three-dimensional relief, Tonghua relief, and brown type three-dimensional sculpture and shell sculpture. The varieties of coconut carving handicrafts have grown to more than 300 varieties, including cutlery, tea sets, wine sets, smoking sets, vases, and various types of hanging screens and screens. Its style is novel, elegant picture, simple shape, light texture, beautiful and practical. Coconut carving is a handicraft made of coconut shells. It is novel and diverse in shape. Its elegant tone has a unique artistic style and a strong Hainan color. In addition to the plane sculpture relief, there are three-dimensional relief, Tong carving, Shen carving, mosaic, paternity, shell and other kinds of shellfish. There are hundreds of varieties carved in coconut color. Especially popular coconuts, coconut monkeys, etc. use the original coconut engraving, lifelike, full of natural beauty of simplicity. Coconut carvings have a variety of ornamental ornaments, hanging pieces, and articles of daily use that are both artistic and practical. In recent years, coconut carvings have been produced. Their ancient styles, conceived ideas, and interesting shapes are traditional coconut carvings. Added spring colors.

The coconut carving process is divided into three categories:

One is coconut shell carving. In the natural form of the coconut shell, the coconut shells and the shells are embedded and spliced ​​into handicrafts according to the design. Products include coconut bowls, tea boxes, toothpick holders, ashtrays, vases, erhu, collage paintings, and more.

The second is coconut palm carving. The natural texture of coir is used to produce various handicrafts such as coconut monkeys, coconut pigs, coconut girls, and animal models using cutting, cutting and ironing.

The third is coconut wood carving. Coconut palm has always been used by Hainan folk to process wooden beams to build houses. After the 1980s, the craft factory began to use coconut wood to produce products such as chopsticks and hairpins. By 1996, the variety of coconut carving crafts had grown from more than 30 to more than 400.

The coconut carving handicraft won the National Tourism Excellence Award in 1984. In 1987, four sets of coconut brown carvings participated in the domestic twentieth sector tourism products domestic crafts fair and won the first prize for outstanding tourist souvenirs. In 1990, the palm brown series of handicrafts won the Tianma Silver Award for the tourism product shopping festival in China. In 1990, five sets of tea bottles, ashtrays, etc. won the National Tourism Tourism Product Award. In 1994, the coconut carving embedded "Dance" vase was awarded the Tianma Silver Award by the National Tourism Administration, the Ministry of Domestic Trade, the General Assembly of Light Industry, and the General Textile Association. At present, coconut carving products have been exported to the United States, Israel and many other countries.

Coconut carving is a handicraft made by a hainan island carving artist using coconut shells. Art processing with coconut shells, coconut palms, coconut trees and other materials is now 300 years old. As early as the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, coconut carving crafts reached a very high artistic level. Over the next 300 years, the coconut carving artists of the past have made the coconut carving techniques perfect and gradually formed a unique national style and local color arts and crafts. The style is novel and varied, and the tone is simple and elegant with a unique artistic style and a strong Hainan color.

Hainan coconut carving has a long history. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people began to use coconut shells to make wine glasses. The late Tang Dynasty poet Lu Guimeng already had a poem titled "Drinking with a glass of coconut milk." For the Ming and Qing dynasties, the coconut carvings were used as "Tiannan tributes" to pay tribute to Beijing. Hainan Province is located in the south of China and is the second largest island in China. The climate here is hot and rich in coconuts. The local people use coconut shells as raw materials to engrave them into various exquisite handicrafts. Officials in ancient Hainan often paid tribute to the center of the coconut carving, so it has the nickname of “Tiannan tribute”.

As early as 1,000 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, there was a record of coconut carving. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasty (middle of the 17th century AD), the production process of coconut carving had a very high artistic level. Since then, the coconut carving artists of all ages have boldly innovated on the basis of inheriting traditional crafts, making the coconut carving technique perfect and gradually becoming a local characteristic craft with a unique ethnic style. In recent years, Hainan coconut carving technology has been further developed. The carving process has been increasingly innovative, and a large number of new products such as coconut carvings and paintings have emerged, making the coconut carving process a flourishing scene. The coconut carving handicrafts are novel in style, simple in shape, elegant in appearance, light in texture, and plentiful in the style of Hainan. The carving process includes plane reliefs, three-dimensional reliefs, and flower-embossed reliefs, as well as various methods such as brown-in-three-dimensional carvings and shell-inlaid carvings. The variety has grown to include more than 300 dishes, tea sets, wine sets, smoking sets, vases, and various types of hanging screens and seat screens. Coconut carving handicrafts are deeply loved by people of all countries and are sold in more than 20 countries and regions in the world.