The green bamboo carvings of Wuxi's "Shuangqixuan" have been passed down through family inheritance. The first generation inheritor is Zhang Ruizhi (1885-1978), the second generation inheritor is Zhi Ci'an (Zhang Ruizhi's brother-in-law, 1904-1974) and Zhang Qizhi (Zhang Ruizhi's daughter, 1913-1976), and the third generation inheritor is Qiao Jinhong (Zhang Ruizhi's grandson , born in 1947), Zhang Yingyuan (granddaughter of Zhang Ruizhi, 1950-2001), and the fourth generation inheritor is Qiao Yu (great-granddaughter of Zhang Ruizhi, born in 1974). Artists engaged in Wuxi Liuqing bamboo carving include Hu Ruikang, Xu Yan, etc. The representative works of Liuqing bamboo carving in Wuxi include "Landscape Brush Holder" with shallow carvings, "Wu Changshuo's Calligraphy and Painting Fan Bone" with shallow inscriptions, "Armrest with Horses" with shallow carvings, "Armrest with Bronze Inscriptions" with shallow carvings, and relief sculptures. "Fruit and Vegetable Ornaments", "Fan Bones of Zhang Daqian's Calligraphy and Paintings" with shallow inscriptions in inscriptions, "Armrests with Bamboo Bamboo Shoots" with shallow inscriptions in green, open-carved "Plum and Bamboo Fan Bones", relief "Autumn Cicada", "Sakura Birds" with shallow inscriptions in green, and "Harvest" in relief ", the relief "Pure", the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection" with green and shallow inscriptions, and the "Xinhuang" with shallow inscriptions on green.
The representative figure of Wuxi Liuqing Bamboo Carving is Qiao Jinhong, who was named by the Ministry of Culture as the representative inheritor of the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects. Xu Yan's works are mainly green and shallow, and he is good at calligraphy, plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos, chrysanthemums, flowers and birds, etc., and is especially characterized by his small regular script. He used a combination of green and intaglio carving, which was unique in expressing themes such as "orchid" and "bamboo" and was well received. Because Xu Yan's home is currently being renovated, the reporter only saw part of his masterpiece: "Tengwang Pavilion" carved in green bamboo. The entire work is 11 cm wide and 32 cm long. In addition to showing the beautiful scenery of Tengwang Pavilion, a famous building in the south of the Yangtze River, most of the work is It was used to carve Wang Bo's famous poem "Preface to the Pavilion of Tengwang". It took Xu Yan four months to carve the entire "Preface to the Pavilion of Tengwang" written by Zhang Lei, which contains about 800 small regular characters in one moment; it was collected by the Museum of Montélimar in France. A replica of "Dragonfly Rose" carved on green bamboo; an inscribed bamboo slip "Taishang Inspiration", composed of seventy or eighty bamboo slips 30 cm high and 2.5 cm wide, with a total length of 180 cm and 1,200 characters engraved on the bottom; In addition, there are "Lanting Preface" and "Heart Sutra"... His works have won various awards such as the Hundred Flowers Award for Arts and Crafts, and have been collected by many celebrities and museums in France, Japan and other places, making the traditional Wuxi Liuqing Bamboo Carving famous. Spread far and wide.