竹木雕刻作为艺术创作兴于明代中期,而盛于清代,尤以雍正、乾隆最著。其时,雕刻技艺已十分成熟,名家辈出,以至当时不少嘉定竹刻艺人在官中当差,直接为皇上服务。虽然我们从《竹人录》、《嘉定三艺人传》及清代档案等史料中可以查到部分竹雕艺人的生平传记,但是,常常因为缺乏实物与之比较,以致不能全面了解和确认这些人的艺术成就。最近,笔者研究发现,久藏民间的一件木雕笔筒 Bamboo carving as an artistic creation in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, especially Yongzheng, Qianlong most. At that time, carving skills have been very mature, famous artists, and even when many Jiading bamboo artist in the official poor, direct service for the emperor. Although we can find the biographies of some bamboo carpenters from the historical records of The Bamboo Manuscript, The Three Chivalries of Jiading and the Qing Dynasty Archives, we often can not fully understand and confirm these people because of the lack of physical comparison with them Artistic achievement. Recently, the author found that a long wooden Tibetan pen holder