- Derong learns Qiang - - Mold furniture skill -

  This is a special craft for making all kinds of wooden living utensils, which has a history of one thousand years. The folk car model technique of Derong County originated from Zishi village, Waka town, about thousands of years ago. The wood product breed here is more, basically have tableware, articles for daily use, adornment to wait more than 50 kinds. The car model technique is unique and exquisite. It is a national handicraft combining traditional and modern, with unique artistic value and practicality. With the continuous improvement of the wooden skills of the car model artists and the growing material and cultural needs of the surrounding Tibetan compatriots, the colorful wooden products have been gradually spread in 18 counties of Ganzi Prefecture, Qamdo of Tibet and Diqen prefecture of Yunnan, and exported to Tibet, India and other places, deeply loved by the masses. However, with the development of modern handicrafts, wooden living utensils have been replaced by other materials. In folk handicraft workshops, derong folk woodwork making skills, which rely on the inheritance of masters and disciples, are on the verge of being lost.
  Car model production is the first to mount material selection. At the altitude of 3000 meters above sea level, the selection of large knobby, knobby trees as raw materials. There are no more than 20 kinds of trees that can be used as raw materials. After the material is selected, it is soaked in water for nearly a day. After soaking, the tree segments and tree segments should be dried in a sunny place for about 10 days to avoid breakage after finished products. When making a car model, it is necessary to make blanks manually from wood, followed by fine grinding. This process requires seiko to do it carefully, so that the thickness around the symmetry, the line is accurate, and the bottom is smooth. It is coloring finally, daub evenly at finished product surface with five-color transparent earth paint, in order to increase its smooth degree.