壹苹派生活美语　走访三义寻觅木雕之美

　　Sanyi, a town located in central Taiwan’s Miaoli County, is famous for woodcarving. Sanyi’s woodcarving industry dates back to the early 1900s, when the Japanese colonial government began harvesting camphor trees in the area. After the harvest, the Japanese government decided to use the area to plant tea trees. However, workers first had to remove huge roots that were left in the ground from the old camphor forest. These roots provided artists with natural materials to carve all sorts of amazing things. Woodcarving in Sanyi broke new ground in the 1940s thanks to a man named Liu De-chun.

　　三义为台湾中部苗栗县的一座小镇，其以木雕闻名。三义的木雕产业可追溯至二十世纪初期，当时日本殖民政府开始在该地区采伐樟树。采伐后，日本政府决定将该地区用于种植茶树。然而，工人们首先必须移除先前樟树森林遗留在地底的巨大树根。这些树根为艺术家提供天然的材料来雕刻各式各样令人惊艳的物品。在 1940 年代，三义木雕有开创性的突破，这归功于一位名叫刘恴春（编按：「恴」音同「德」）的男子。

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