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A carved Chinese olive pit at the Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum A carved peach pit at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Fruit pit carving (Chinese: 核雕; pinyin: hédiāo) is a Chinese folk handicraft in which the pits of peach, apricot, walnut, Chinese olive, yumberry and other drupes are used to create minute patterns of the Buddha, nature, or the Chinese zodiac that are said to ...
Fruit carving. Fruit carving is the art of carving fruit, a very common technique in Europe and Asian countries, and particularly popular in Thailand, China and Japan. There are many fruits that can be used in this process; the most popular one that artists use are watermelons, apples, strawberries, pineapples, and cantaloupes.
Sculpture. Medium. Olive pit. Dimensions. 1.6 cm × 1.4 cm × 3.4 cm (0.63 in × 0.55 in × 1.3 in) [1] Location. National Palace Museum, Taipei. The Boat Carved from an Olive Stone (Chinese: 雕橄欖核舟) is a fruit pit carving of a boat made out of an olive pit. It is part of the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
The site is renowned for its impressive array of Buddhist art, which includes intricately carved statues, inscriptions, and reliefs. The Longmen Grottoes reflect the high point of Chinese stone carving, and the Fengxian Temple, with its colossal statue of Vairocana Buddha, is among the most celebrated of these carvings.1003
Yaodong. A group of yaodongs in a village in Lingshi, Shanxi, some for humans, others for livestock. A yaodong (natively 窰 [iɤ] in Jin Chinese, [1] or 窰洞 [jɑʊ tʊŋ] yáodòng in Beijing Mandarin) is a particular form of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in China 's north. They are generally carved out of a hillside or ...
Genesis Carving Knife. A 10-inch knife is a happy medium between a light 8-incher and a hefty 12-incher. This comfortable carving knife has a sharp pointed end that’s useful for breaking cartilage.
Pyrena. A pyrena or pyrene (commonly called a "pit" or "stone") is the fruitstone within a drupe or drupelet produced by the ossification of the endocarp or lining of the fruit. [1] It consists of a hard endocarp tissue surrounding one or more seeds (also called the "kernel"). [2][3] The hardened endocarp which constitutes the pyrene provides a ...
The Thousand-Buddha Cliff ( Chinese: 千 佛 崖; pinyin: Qiānfó Yá) is a historical site of mostly Tang dynasty rock carvings in central Shandong Province, China. Along a cliff face of 63 meters length, over 210 statues and 43 inscriptions have been reported. [1] Most of the statues were carved during 618–684.