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Human likes to carve wares since the ancient time. It
was during the spring and autumn and the Warring States
period more than 2000 years ago that the bamboo-made
wares had been used among common Chinese people, but
until the middle period of Ming Dynasty, the bamboo
engraving had come into a specialized art division.
Long favored by Chinese people, bamboo, together with
pine and plum blossom, is praised as one of the three
friends in cold season. Poets describe it, painters
portray it, and craftsmen carve it, which has endowed
the plain and unostentatious bamboo with the beauty
of detachment. Consequently, the bamboo engraving products
have been cherished by Chinese people for hundreds of
years.
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