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Chinese traditional arts chinese paper cut Root Carving（根雕） Root carving is a traditional art in China. Integrating ingenuity and craftiness, root carving not only employs ways of expressions similar to wood carvings, sculptures and stone carvings, but also demonstrates the unique features of root carving by absorbing the techniques exhibited in the creation of other carving arts. History China has a long history of root carving: Primitive people began to make effigies out of wood for ornaments. In 1982, when cleaning the No 1 tomb of the Chu state excavated in Mashan, a local museum employee in Jingzhou County, Hubei Province discovered a root carving believed to have been made between 340 and 270BC in the late Warring States Period - 2,300 years ago. It featured a four-legged animal with a tigers head, a dragons body and a rabbits tail; its manner was full of verve and simple and elegant in hue. By the Sui and Tang dynasties, root art was very prosperous. Records from The Biography of Li Mi present a root carving entitled Dragon-shaped Claw made from a crude tree root for the emperor. Root carving artwork from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), such as the Phoenix and Jade Dragon have been on display in Yuyuan in Shanghai until today. These works thoroughly exhibit the verves of root carving. Types 1. Applied root carving. Root carvings of this type have a practical utility as well as ornamental value. Some common examples include home accessories, such as chairs, stools, tea tables, sofas, screens, flower shelves, and some stationeries, including brush shelves, ink slabs, etc. 2. Ornamental root carving. This kind of carving is primarily for decoration purposes and accounts for a large proportion of root carvings. Based on their respective shapes, they can be further classified into many types, such as root carvings featuring characters, animals, flowers, etc. 3. Aesthetic root carving. This refers to root carvings that cannot be named easil