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Rice carving is to carve some calligraphy (even the whole preface to Lanting) or draw pictures on a grain of rice by hand with the help of a magnifying glass or even a microscope. Of course, you have to put it under a magnifying glass to see and appreciate the work.
I think those rice carvings that only win by small and enjoy with a magnifying glass are of little artistic significance. Because with the help of modern industry and technology, laser technology can be mass-produced, which is inconvenient to show and appreciate, and has little market value and practical value.
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Nuclear carving is much more interesting. It uses the hard olive core, through ingenious design and thinking, and creates various artistic images on the small olive core by means of round carving, hollow carving, through carving or deep relief. The classic "The Story of the Nuclear Ship" has also entered the students' textbooks.
After a long time of touching and playing, the hard material of the olive core carving will become shiny black and red, forming a layer of patina with a sense of vicissitudes of life. Nuclear carvings can be displayed for viewing, and can also be used as toys or pendants, which are rich in art and collection value. The market value of some excellent nuclear carvings far exceeds that of ordinary jade carvings.
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Mini-crafts are far more than the micro-carving and nuclear carving mentioned above. China's traditional famous painting snuff bottle can also be said to be a mini-handicraft.
It is not easy to draw the whole bottle with a special small hook pen on the inner wall of such a small bottle. A craftsman who paints snuff bottles can be called a master of micro-carving.
Broadly speaking, those small and small handicrafts can be called mini-handicrafts. ("mini" is a transliteration of English mini, which means tiny, tiny. )
In addition to rice carving, nuclear carving and various exquisite snuff bottles made of pottery, porcelain, glass, cloisonne and jade carving and painted in transparent glass bottles, there are also various mini car models, ship models and plane models; Various mini jade carvings; Miniature landscapes, miniature building models, miniature shoes and clothes samples, rings made of tiny pearls, brooches, earrings and pendants.
Even people who knead dough can make various tiny figures, animals and plants from maltose, which can be called mini-crafts. There are buttons and pendants made of crystal flowers. Micro-framed landscape in landscape stump bonsai. , too numerous to mention.