The art of root carving has a long history in China. As early as the primitive society, people carved wooden statues as decoration. During the period of 1982, the Jingzhou Regional Museum in Hebei Province discovered the root carving art work Exorcism in the Warring States Period while cleaning the No.1 Chu Tomb in Mashan. According to the research of the national cultural relics department, the cultural relic was made in the late Warring States period, about 340 BC to 270 BC, 2300 years ago. Its shape is a four-legged monster with tiger head, dragon body and rabbit tail, full of dynamic charm and simple color. By the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the development of root art had tended to be prosperous. It is recorded in Biography of Li Mi that Li Mi made "Dragon Claw" from natural tree roots and presented it to the emperor. Yu Linglong, Kirin, Phoenix and other Qing Dynasty root carving works have been exhibited in Shanghai Yuyuan Garden. These works are "three points artificial and seven points natural", which shows the charm of root art works incisively and vividly. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the country has been revitalized, the economy has been prosperous, and the cause of root arts has also flourished. After 1983 filmed the documentary "The Art of Roots", 1985 held the "Art Exhibition of Chinese Roots" in China Art Museum, and the Roots Art Research Association of China Arts and Crafts Society was established, which made Chinese Roots Art embark on a standardized and academic development path. 1994 Approved by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it was promoted from the second-level society of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles to the first-level society-China Genyi Fine Arts Society. And more than 40 root art groups have been developed throughout the country. The number of root carving art producers in Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces is increasing, and the production of root carving art has formed a certain scale, and the level of root carving art creation has reached a new level. And because of its originality and artistic appeal, it is favored by more and more people.