| As local characteristic handicraft with several hundreds of years’history, Fuzhou Bodiless Lacquerware has glorious past. It had been the top of the lacquerware handicraft in China since it was born in late Qing dynasty, representing the highest technical level in the industry, which once could compete with Japanese lacquer craft. And plenty of its products had been exported overseas. But with the changing of the age, it gradually faded out people’s eyes and was suffering in business. Nowadays, the present management of Fuzhou Bodiless Lacquerware industry can not be compared with the past. There are a few large-scale enterprises in the whole field and most of the merchants are bad in business. So what caused the recent decline of Fuzhou Bodiless Lacquerware?In hundreds of years, the changes of industry environment brought by constantly changing of government policy was the key influence to the vicissitude of Fuzhou Bodiless Lacquerware. As a kind of folk handicraft, it can be developed steadily only with the powerful support of government. However, this kind of support and intervention is not unlimited, since over control will result in gradual decline of the industry vitality and competitiveness. To a great extent, the current predicament of Fuzhou Bodiless Lacquerware industry attributes to the long-term production pattern of base sales on production and unified purchase and sale.As a kind of handicraft industry, the making process of Fuzhou Bodiless Lacquerware is very complex and its technical requirement is also very strict, no matter in the extraction of lacquer, the shape technique or the decorating skills, it maintains the forefront high level in the whole nation and contributes to the heritage of modern Chinese lacquer craft education. The important value of this craft is not only in the exquisite and complicated characteristics, but more in its great contribution to the development of modern Chinese lacquer craft, which promote Chinese lacquer craft level to a new height. |
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