3-D version of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival” comes!

Have you seen the 3-D version of the painting, "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival”? It took Fan Daocai and his two apprentices two and a half years to complete the work. They have successfully carved a work of 3.27 meters long, 2.07 meters high and 0.99 meters wide on a section of wood from the thuja sutchuenensis tree.

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Fan Daocai, 54 years old, from Fujian province, has been studying wood carving since he was about 10 years old. In March 2017, Fan came across a complete thuja sutchuenensis in Xi’an. "The thuja sutchuenensis weighs 1.5 tons and is a whole piece of wood. It is very suitable for carving "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival”, he said. He decided to put the rest of his work aside, and the sculpture was officially finished on Nov. 29.

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The 3-D version of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival” is carved on one piece of wood. Streets, houses, bridges, flowing water, carriages and shops can all be seen on this piece of wood, and each little figure is very different and vivid. "The heads of the characters were the most difficult part to carve. Sometimes it took an entire day just to carve a person's head," Fan said. The most time-consuming part of the work were the characters, and there are 288 figures in total.

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Since March 2017, Fan has been working with two apprentices for 10 hours a day. A bridge, a street, a cloud, and thousands of local details made up the entire work, and the more subtle the part, the more time it took to carve.

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Now, Fan has carefully covered the completed 3-D version of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival” with glass. "If it's left open, it gets dusty and can be a real hassle. It’s covered with glass to ensure its ornamental value, and the fragrance of the thuja sutchuenensis can be kept," he said.