The essence and prime characteristic root artworks are the combinations of practicality and aesthetics, which can meet people's living needs and culture-art appreciation need. When people pay attention to the aesthetics of root artworks, the more important point is to realize its practicality. Root artworks have to be practical first, then beautiful. All arts can not be created without material. Only after roots of exotic shapes are founded can root artists create perfect root artworks with their wisdom, imagination, and original creation. The process of finding the root is that root artists rely on life experience and artistic cultivation as well as acute and unique insight to discover all kinds of strange roots in nature. The making process of root artwork can be generally divided into six procedures: barking, creating, anti-bacterial treatment, anti-insect treatment, drying, polishing, painting, and waxing. The root wood of modern root carving creation mainly are rosewood, chicken wing wood, camphor wood, fir, boxwood, etc. all those hard, smooth, delicate roots of clear grain are in natural exotic shapes due to diversified climates. They are suitable for root enthusiasts to reshape them. After a combination of strange nature and artful carving skills, those root woods exert integration of nature and man effect. Root wood drying aims to meet quality requirements by removing moisture from the wood. As most root woods is pith wood, much attention should be paid to eliminating or lightening additional stress and internal stress generated during the drying process, thus reducing the probability of crazing and deforming, which can guarantee dry root wood's quality.
