It is generally believed that Chaozhou woodcarving originated in the Tang Dynasty. Because Kaiyuan Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, there is no wooden structure now, but the wooden fish of that year was lucky enough to be handed down and can be seen by future generations, so there is this saying. In fact, with the scale of Kaiyuan Temple at that time, wood carving should have a heavy weight. If it is still in the "origin" stage, I am afraid it is difficult to be competent. So it is entirely possible to push the "origin" to at least the previous era.

Gold lacquer wood carving is a form of wood carving art, based on wood carving and coated with gold, which gradually formed a pattern from the Ming Dynasty. Most of the woodcarvings in the early Ming Dynasty were plane carvings, and they began to develop into single-layer carvings during the Wanli period. The Qing Dynasty was the heyday of this art form, and many dignitaries had a special liking for "resplendence", so the ancestral halls and mansions built were decorated with gold lacquer wood carvings. The earliest existing representative works of gold lacquer wood carving are Kaiyuan Temple niche and round carved golden stupa. A relatively complete building is the "Huanggong Temple" in Chaozhou in the late Qing Dynasty.