Bone-and stone inlaying technique, which is a traditional kind of Yangzhou lacquer ware, was created by a native of Yangzhou, Zhou Zhu of the Ming Dynasty. This decorative technique uses ivory, ox bones, mica, pearl shells, abalone, Shoeshine stones, Qingtian stones, etc. As materials to make products with artistic features of rich colors, equisite carving, beautiful designs, strong plastic effect and vividness by means of relief, circular engraving hollowing-out, surface inlaying, inlaying, golden drawing and other techniques.

Mother-of-pearl dotting technique is protected specially by our country as a high-grade technique. "Dotting" means technique and "pearl" means material. The process of this technique is selecting green snails, peal shells, abalone and other high-grade materials to cut into many pieces as thin as cicadas wings, as small as pinpoint and as dainty as autumn hair. Then they are dotted onto the smooth surface of the lacquer ware base with special tools one by one. By means of delicate lacquer-coating technique, the product has artistic style with gorgeous colors and can change with light.

 Lacquer carving technique was created during the Tang Dynasty. The first procedure of the technique is coating about one hundred to hundreds of layers of the Chinese raw lacquer on the object and then carving various patterns and beautiful decorative designs with full knife technique. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, on the basis of lacquer carving technique, the craftsmen used jadeite, agate, lapis, white jade, coral, green jade, pearl shells, ivory and other high-grade materials to carve different relief designs and then inlaid them onto the lacquer carving decorative patterns.