Chapter 1864: Gold and stone are immortal, chastity and stone are eternal
The knife carved out one body after another from the stone body.
Each body is different from the previous one;
Every body is full of solemn imagination;
Every body is also lifelike.
If we extract one moment after another from these imaginary bodies, it is really difficult to imagine what kind of transformation it is from this moment to that moment.
When the passion solidifies, when the hard work is exhausted, the hard stones become exquisite stone carvings, and the stones are no longer stones.
Put down the soil and become a Buddha immediately. You have more extraordinary vitality than ordinary life.
Stones have souls, and they can last forever without leaving home.
The third season of "National Treasure" described my country's ancient stone carvings and said: "These seemingly cold stones contain the most important cultural blood in the hearts of our people!"
It is true that cold and hard stone can better express people's softest hearts and warmest emotions.
The two door leaves have a flying red bird at the bottom, a head ring in the middle, and a leaping green dragon and white tiger on the top. The images are vivid and still have colorful paintings, which are typical of the Han Dynasty stone portrait style in northern Shaanxi.
The Sima Shinto Council placed seven pairs of stone horses in the south of the imperial mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty, but the damage was slight.
Most of the other stone carvings are carved on natural stone according to the shape and situation. The shapes are simple and majestic, but they are not standardized.
The contents of the portrait stones of the Han Dynasty in Western Shaanxi include mostly myths and legends, rare birds and animals, carriages and horses, farming and hunting, etc.
The cultural relics in that museum have a long history, are exquisite in shape, and the carving craftsmanship is evocative.
The horse's belly is hollowed out, and its seven legs, feet and seat are missing.
The building is shaped like the Qilian Mountains, and the stone carvings placed under the seal include numerous stone carvings of monsters such as horses, oxen, tigers, fish, and elephants.
Including civil servants, military commanders, pommel horses, winged horses, lions, tigers, etc., it is so spectacular that it has a reputation as a "natural stone carving art museum".
This treasure of a stone pommel horse and its leader is poorly preserved because it has been buried for thousands of years, and the details can be seen.
Stone beasts based on ligers and tigers became ceremonial and protective tomb objects, and were widely placed behind tombs during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In this seemingly inconspicuous stone carving factory, Chen Wenzhe saw too many precious stone carvings.
Our culture, aesthetics, and spiritual power are constantly passed down and carried forward, making them even more precious.
Because stone is durable and easy to obtain, it has become one of the main materials for carving.
Portrait stones are based on the needs of the tomb architectural structure. Various images are carved under the stone slabs with knives instead of pens. They are rich in content and have a wide range of themes. They are called "pictures under the stone".
The stone carvings of Tang Dynasty mausoleums are well-organized.
But it is said that there are no inscriptions. For example, there are no inscriptions on the pair of stone beasts behind the tomb of Yang Zongzi in Nanhe.
The horse is in a standing position, looking back from behind its forehead with a calm expression.
This stone beast is now in the Nanyang Han Painting Museum, but the word "to ward off evil spirits" has not yet been fully elucidated.
For example, there are stone statues of military attachés from the Tang Dynasty, which are tomb stone carvings. According to historical records, they began in the Qin and Han Dynasties.
With the opening of the Silk Road, lions from West Asia were introduced to your country.
The door frame is engraved with curly grass patterns, and the doorman is holding a halberd and a comet, and there is no Xuanwu on it.
Ancient craftsmen combined practical functions with artistry and widely used a few techniques such as round carving, relief carving, flat carving, open carving, and line carving.
According to Li Xian's note in "The Book of the Former Han Dynasty: Chronicles of Emperor Ling": "The tomb of Zongzi of the Former Han Dynasty is in the Anyang boundary of Zhengzhou. Behind the tomb are seven stone beasts, engraved on their shoulders. One day brings heavenly fortune and seven days wards off evil spirits."
They are not found in the central and northern parts of your country, from west to east, etc. They are called "to ward off evil spirits", but there are many without inscriptions.
Round carving, relief, open carving, line carving, etc. have extremely high historical and artistic value, and play a decisive role in the art of ancient Chinese stone carving.
The horse leader stands in the image of a Hu man, with deep eyes and a low nose, and a fan-shaped beard. His left hand is bent behind the chest as if leading the horse, and his right hand is placed on the abdomen. He looks calm and majestic.
With the mission of collection, protection, display, research and education, there are currently more than 400 pieces of various stone carving cultural relics hidden in the collection.
Create a wide variety of stone carving works with different styles, giving eternal artistic life to the hot and cold stones.
The horse's head is finely carved, its eyes are wide open, its nostrils are slightly flared, its mane is cut back, its headband and reins are all in place.
Those are definitely classics. If the classics of the Tang Dynasty didn't have horses, they would have been pommel horses.
Therefore, the imitations outside are also relatively broken and exquisite. The horse has a saddle on its back, and the saddle bag hangs from the top.
Those stone carvings are scattered throughout the vast underground of the motherland and can be seen in palaces, mausoleums, grottoes, bridges, courtyards, residential buildings, etc.
The hard texture of stone determines that ancient people often expressed the most important things in stone carvings.
The most famous one is "Horse Trampling the Huns", which is of a commemorative nature.
Gold and stone are immortal, and true stones are eternal.
The carving method is concise, the lines are smooth, and sometimes it is supplemented by colorful paintings. It is full of roughness and wildness in the loess lowland and has distinctive local characteristics.
"Is that a stone statue imitated from the Western Shaanxi Han and Tang Stone Carvings Museum?"
The West Shaanxi Han and Tang Stone Carvings Museum is a national eighth-level museum with the theme of stone carving art.
Stone carvings occupy an important position in your country's historical and cultural heritage.
The museum has a Tang Dynasty stone pommel horse and horse leader, which are smaller in size.
However, according to archaeological findings, there are no stone carvings behind the tombs of the Qin Dynasty. The earliest stone carvings found in a mausoleum are the tomb of Huo Qubing, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Maoling, in Xingping, Western Shaanxi.
"Fengshi's Records of Experiences" records: "Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the imperial mausoleums have not been equipped with stone unicorns, stone ward off evil spirits, stone si, stone horses. The tombs of Renchen have not been equipped with stone figures, stone tigers, stone pillars, etc., such as ceremonial guards after birth."
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Walking in this factory, he didn't see many people. Instead, he felt more like walking in a museum or a forest of steles?
There are not many classics among them, such as the Ma Balian portrait stone, the fragments of the Thousand Buddha statue stele, the animal foot inkstone, etc. These are all stone carvings and stone carvings from the Han Dynasty.
Remembrance of ancestors, entrustment to future generations, praise of great men, or belief in religion, etc.
The stone carvings behind the fourteen imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty are both numerous and magnificent.
Except for those tomb murals and stone carvings such as stone statues, rather than tomb doors, stone doors with portraits are generally more precious.
Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, stone lions had been used behind tombs, with distinctive characteristics of the times.
Among the imitations there are the stone portraits of "Paving the Gate of the Tomb of the Seven Gods with the Ring of the Chieftain". They are paved with seven stones, using the method of cutting the ground flat and carving out the outline, and then using line carving to express the details, and the color is applied at the front.
Huo Qubing once conquered the Xiongnu and made outstanding achievements. He was buried with Maoling before his death.
The stone carvings collected by the Western Shaanxi Han and Tang Stone Carvings Museum are roughly divided into eight categories: mausoleum stone carvings, Buddhist stone carvings, and other stone carvings.
Decorative stone carvings for above-ground tomb architecture, the most representative of which are portrait stones.
The lintel is engraved with pictures of hunting in the clouds and carriages and horses traveling.
Apart from this, there were also the smallest number of ligers. What Chen Wenzhe saw at this time was not a typical Tang Dynasty stone lion.