Yellow poplar woodcarving, Sandal woodcarving, camphor woodcarving, Chinese date woodcarving and pear woodcarving etc. are called by a joint name wood carving. Among them the heaviest one is yellow poplar woodcarving, which started from Leqing period and was used for decoration on the framework of dragon lantern when festival of lantern came. In around 1840, The handicraftsman named Ye Chengrong made the figure of Laotse which is the first artwork handed down from ancient times. Later, the handicraft has been devoluted from Family Ye. In late Qing dynasty, another handicraftsman named Zhu Zichang proved the handicraft of yellow poplar woodcarving and made it a separate artwork on the desk. His works "Jidian monk" won the excellent prize in the first international match of Nanyang in 1909.

In 1915, another works "hide-and-seek" won the silver medal in Panama Exposition. Since then, more and more people paid attention to the yellow poplar woodcarving, and more and more people entered into this field. The yellow poplar woodcarving in Wenzhou area started from Song and Yuan dynasties, and were poplar during Ming and Qing, which together with Dongyang wood carving and Qingtian stone carving called "three carvings in Zhejing". Leqing wood carving is in complete category, and under the base of tradition and the origin style keeping, breaking through the origin, it was from "single carving" to "combined carving", "multi carving", from "round carving" to "chip carving", "root carving". The technique was tend to excellent, the works were more and more perfect.