1 Materials(best Platanewood )
2 Plenty of designs, sizes and colors
3 Decoration & nice gift
4 Chinese Fork Art

1. Totally handmade from high quality wood as raw material; 

2. Perfect hand-drawing technique with chromatic colors on the surface, attractive and elegant design, high culture value;

3. Represent distinctive local culture features of Shaanxi;

4. Suitable as home decor, collection and gifts, etc;

5. Made by Ma Yazhou-----a master folk craftsman;

 

Historic Significance:

A special folk art form only available in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi province (China, mainland)

As early as Xia dynasty (2070 B.C.-1600 B.C.) and Shang dynasty (1600 B.C.-1300 B.C.), ladle was used as a kind of life appliance by ancient Chinese. It’s regarded as the "live fossil" of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties’ decoration. Also, it’s the record and inherence of the 5000 years’ splendid Chinese civilization.

 

Facture:

People choose superior wood material, carve with hand knife and then paint unique images with bright colors on the surface.

 

Functions:

It’s hanging up on the wall in house or doorframe in order to avoid bad spirits and pray for good luck.  

Our products have great ornamental effects since they are all made from the hands of experienced artists and painted with strong contrasting and bright colors.

It’s still treasured by Chinese today and people always hang it in house as a house décor to bless good fortune. It can be send to your friends as presents from overseas or keep as a collection for its high art value.

 

We provide Mr. Ma Yazhou’s traditional wooden ladle masks.

Mr. Ma Yazhou’s unique works give people a sense of original freshness. His ladle masks, as a rare heritage of fork art, are welcomed as collections in lots of museums and galleries.

 

Mr. Ma’s ladle masks:

Sep 4 - 10, 2010: Mr. Ma, will demonstrate the painting process of the folk ladle mask in Sunshine Life Center of Shanghai World Expo.

Sep 6, 2010: Mr. Ma was the only person in Baoji City being invited to attend the “Shanghai World Expo” by CDPF in Shaanxi Province. Dec 2008: An article about Mr. Ma and his works was published on Hong Kong Wen Hui DailyDuring 29th Olympic Games: Collected and selected as the representative works of All-China Women's Federation and exhibited in China Millennium Monument.June 2008: Displayed in Ministry of Agriculture, PRC.         Collected by China agriculture Museum2004: Collected by Technology Center of Shaanxi Province and Shaanxi Provincial Art Gallery2003: Ladle mask with the theme of “Eight immortals crossing the sea” was collected by Taiwan's National Palace Museum