A few days ago, at an intangible cultural heritage exhibition in Lanzhou Old Street, a vase made of walnut aroused visitors' onlookers.
The vase is made of wild pecans produced in Hui County, Longnan City, Gansu Province. It uses its unique texture, natural hollowing effect and hard texture. It is washed, sliced, dried, bonded, shaped, polished, and finely divided. Carving and other more than 20 processes, making various kinds of bottles, tubes and other handicrafts.
Since the entire processing process is purely manual, the product retains the original shape and natural pattern of walnut intact.
It is understood that the folks have said walnuts to ward off evil spirits since ancient times. As early as 1778, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty used walnut handicrafts as objects that "exorced evil spirits and blessed peace."
(Reporter Li Yalong)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]