The masters must also have high artistic taste and imagination, so that with only a hammer and a chisel, they can shape the lifeless wood into animated and lifelike figures or animals.
隨著木料形狀來雕刻的師傅，都具有很高的藝術眼光和豐富的想像力。他們面對著木頭，上下左右仔細端詳，腦中靈感即來，拿起棒槌和鑿刀，東挖一塊，西削一刀，就在他們敲敲打打、鑿鑿刻刻中，把一塊塊沒有生命的木頭，蛻變成一個個栩栩如生的人像或是一隻隻唯妙唯肖的動物。