Wood products are mainly divided into the following categories: furniture wood products, office wood products, craft wood products, garden wood products, living wood products, and now high-tech wood products. Wood carving is just a branch of craft wood products.
The Chinese woodcarving art can be traced back to the primitive society, at that time there were many handicrafts that took shape. By the Warring States period, the wood carving process had been developed by the Shang Dynasty for simple engraving in the pottery making process and the intaglio engraving of the carved plate, and developed into a three-dimensional circular carving process.
The animal wood carving of the Han Dynasty was made of whole wood, which pushed the art of Chinese wood carving to a peak. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, woodcarving crafts became more and more perfect. The wood carvings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were the times when Chinese classical wood carving art was mature, and the works are very rich, in addition to animals and characters.