Introduction to Guangfu Nuclear Carving: Guangfu Nuclear Carving has a long history and exquisite skills. The Ming Dynasty writer Wei Xuezhen's prose "The Story of the Nuclear Boat" describes the scene in which Wang Shuyuan of Changshu carved "Dongpo Tour to Red Cliff" on a peach stone less than an inch long during the Ming Dynasty. It was praised as a "spiritual material". In the early years of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Du Shiyuan, a miniature carving artist from Suzhou, also carved "Dongpo Tour of Red Cliff" using peach stones. He added carvings of boatmen on the small boats, which was called "ghost work" at the time. Nuclear carving is a unique folk art in Suzhou, and Guangfu is the birthplace of modern nuclear carving.

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