In China Palace's factory in the Shihlin district of Taipei City, workers in the woodcarving department use mechanical fretsaws to first cut out all kinds of decorative openwork designs in wooden panels, while craftsmen with dozens of carving tools laid out beside them carve out one lifelike magpie after another, completely by hand. The walls of the work area are festooned with hundreds of stencils of auspicious motifs.
在台北士林的工廠裡，刻花部門的工人忙著用機器線鋸割出種種鏤空的木頭裝飾圖案，有的師父則攤開數十把雕刻刀，以手工雕著一隻隻栩栩如生的鵲鳥，工作區的牆面則掛滿了數百種吉祥圖案的版型。