Literati sneered upon crafts Among the scant scholarship on Chinese crafts, research into lacquering techniques is particularly sparse. Even in the Complete Collection of Graphs and Writing of Ancient and Modern Times, the largest of ancient Chinese encyclopedias, lacquer and lacquer ware barely get mentioned.
工藝的研究在中國少，其中漆器的研究更是鳳毛麟角；即使在我國最大的百科全書﹘﹘古今圖書集成裡，有關漆工的資料也少的不成篇章。