[Ancient Art] Picking red lacquerware incense box

Tihong is a craft of East Asian lacquerware. It is the most popular type of carved lacquer, also known as "carved red lacquer" or "red carved lacquer". Its techniques had a considerable scale in the Tang Dynasty, matured in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and developed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the national power declined, and many schools of lacquer art could not afford the cost of picking red, so they continued to shrink. The method of picking red is to first use gold, Silver, tin, wood and other materials as tires, and apply red paint layer by layer on the upper layer of the fetal bone, ranging from eighty or ninety layers to as many as one or two hundred layers. When the lacquer is half-dry, the drawing is drawn, and then part of the red lacquer is "picked off" to form a pattern. Tihong lacquerware does not need to be vermilion all over the body, as long as the carved part of the pattern remains red, it can be classified as Tihong lacquerware.