Hunan Province is also known as "Xiang". The Xiang Opera, a major local opera in Hunan Province, formed during the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644) and is popular in parts of Hunan and Guangdong rovinces in southern China. The opera was based in the capital Changsha and in Xiangtan, hence the name Changsha Xiang
A technique appearing in the Ming Dynasty, hundred-treasure inlays introduced a new lacquer species with distinctive characteristics of that time.
Hundred-treasure inlays originated from the traditional technique of mother-of-pearl inlays, in which process people make the thin grinded lustrous slices of mussel conchs into patterns of human figures, flowers, grasses, birds and animals, embed the patterns into the concave patterns carved in advance, apply a l
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