Traditional Zhejiang arts and crafts are well known for their long history, wide variety, vast range of subjects, and exquisite workmanship. They are available from jade ware, bronze ware, silk fabrics, and bamboo ware to ivory ware. Artworks of lacquerwork, bamboo caving and “three types of carvings” are grantly shown to people, which represent several tidemarks of Zhejiang artwork development history.
　　Lacquerware finds its hometown in Zhejiang. As early as 7000, Humudu people of Zhejiang Yuyao began to use lacquerware. And Wenzhou and Hangzhou became two important production center of lacquerware of Song Dynasty. Especially that of Wenzhou ranked “No.1 in the Country”. And “invisble lift” is the most characteristic local lacquer technique of Zhejiang. It stacks patterns with paint ash upon priming. Lacquerware displayed here is of high appreciating value and practical value.
　　Another artwork full of Zhejiang local characteristics is Huiji bronze mirror, which are cast from bronze. It's generally fixed on the rack for use. The mirror surface usually is grinded smooth and bright, while the back cast with mirror knob and pattern, which of exquisite structure and reflects custom and technique levels of the time. In Eastern Han Dynasty, Huiji of Zhejiang (Shaoxing Now) is the mirror casting center of the country since it produces extremely beautiful bronze mirror. According to different back figures, it can be divided into portrait mirror, immortal animal mirror and dragon-tiger mirror. Looking at these elaborate bronze mirror, you'll feel that it's not a piece of daily commodity, but an artwork with extremely high appreciating value.
　　In middle and late Qing Dynasty, Zhejiang also rose to bamboo carving art. Especially bamboo carved readingroom articles even reached perfect combination of technique and utility. For example, the exquisite carved bamboo pen holders, paper presses and arm rests, as well as bamboo root carving for decoration of reading table, which are made to nature shapes of the bamboo root, uniquely, dramatically, primitively or delicately. Till late Qing Dynasty, Zhejiang bamboo carving gradually becomes mainstream of the entire bamboo carving art.
　　And to modern times, Zhejiang's “three types of carvings”--- “Dongyang wood carving, boxwood carving and Qingtian stone carving with regional features”became another milestone of Chinese Art development history. Dongyang woodcarving has had a history of more than 1200 years, named after its important origin Dongyang of Zhejiang. It's a sort of decorative embossed art, more fequently as deep embossed. It's particularly suitable to present the content storylike, such as historic tales, folk legends and so on. And Qingtian stone carving, said to begin from Soutern Song Dynasty, has nearly a thousand years' history till now. It selects Leaf-wax stone as carving materials, by through carving mostly, and a touch of round carving and embossed carving, to produce artworks of extremely high appreciating value. Qingtian Stone Carving's feature is carving subject to materials, the inborn shape and color of the stone and create lifelike figures with bold and skillful innovation.
　　Among artworks exhibition of the past dynasties, the most noteable one is “gold strip plate”of official dress, one of important signs to indicate official posts. There are strict regulations on number and material of strip plate, the more, the higher the post. And top down, materials are jade, gold, silver, bronze and rhinocerotic. The better the material, the higher the post. “Gold strip plates”displayed by art gallery are unearthed in Wang Shiqi tomb of Ming Dynasty, as many as more than 20 and all made of pure gold exquisitely. You can know that the owner has had remarkable position at that time. Of course, the saying goes that “gold is valuable while jade invaluable”. Maybe only the emperor is noble enough to wear jade strip plate.