China bodiless lacquer is blessed with a long history, its based technique is derived from the ancient Dry Lacquer. With the development of the traditional paint process, dry lacquer is one of the inner tube skeleton structure.After spread to Japan and Southeast Asia. With the weakness of traditional lacquer art in modern China, the Ming and Qing Dynasties lacquer make only limited "tick rhino", "inlaid with mother" and several other varieties, hence, many old techniques gradually lost. On the basis of reviving the traditional art, Fuzhou Shen Shao’an improves the production process and become the fathers of modern China bodiless lacquer. After the Shen family for several generations of painstaking efforts to develop, Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware finally become master of modern China, Fujian become the center of an important foundation lacquer.
The biggest characteristic of Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware is slim. Since Fuzhou lacquerware came into being in the hands of Mr. Shen Shao’an, it has hereafter been enjoying well-known fame in and outside China for its magnificent colors, light and thin bodies, and ingenious designs. Early bodiless lacquerware only showed statues, longevity, etc., and later developed into fruits, animals and all kinds of utensils. Late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, With the opening of the door Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware went out of China, bodiless boutiques sent by Shen's family repeatedlyreceived awards abroad, and it further promoted the development of Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware industry. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, on the basis of Shen's lacquerware shop, Shen’s established a bodiless lacquerware companies, later transformed into bodiless lacquerware production cooperatives. In 1957, the first state-run Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware factory established and then the second. So far, Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware entered the most glorious period of history, the production scale greatly enhance, the artistic style is more diverse, and it become a national lacquerware industry leader.
The production of Bodiless lacquerware is a complex process, the raw material is extremely demanding, it requires more time and more labors, and its production process determines the specificity of the high cost. In China's reform and opening up to the market economy, the export orders reduce substantially, the first factory and the second were bankrupted in the 1990s, bodiless lacquer production was into the trough. In recent years, increasing the degree of social respect to handicrafts and supporting for traditional crafts by country, Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware ushered in the spring. Through field surveys and literature research, grasping the operating conditions of Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware industry, deeply analysing the current situations and discussing the way out is an important issue. As the lacquer industry base of China, the current problem of Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware also represents China’s situation, and to explore the road of change about Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware means to explore the Chinese lacquer revitalization of the road.