Whenever she immerses herself in creating lacquer artwork, Xiong Yali, a student of the art, gets a sense of inner peace. She has been practicing lacquer art since 2021, when she began a course in it in the Department of Art and Cultural Tourism at the Chongqing Vocational Institute of Tourism in Jinjiang District in Chongqing Municipality.
Painted lacquer is very sticky and thus must be applied slowly with a brush, giving rise to thought-out brushstrokes and often elegantly curvilinear designs. Xiong enjoys the art and the mindfulness that accompanies its creation.
Dating back more than 3,000 years, to the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.), the creation of lacquer art requires dozens of complicated processes.
