Hu Jian's bluestone carvings in Hui'an are famous for their architectural decoration and stone lions.
Among them, the stone lion's mouth contains stone beads that can roll freely, which is famous in Southeast Asia.
Nanyun's marble carvings use marble from Diancang Mountain as raw materials.
The patterns are like colored landscapes, dangerous peaks and ravines, or waterfalls and clouds, and the inlaid furniture is unique.
White marble carvings from Quyang, Beihe, Fangshan, Shendu and other places were mainly used for palace architectural decoration during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Such as Chinese watches, stone lions, railings, etc.;
In modern times, it is used for the decoration of public and memorial buildings, such as meeting halls, monuments, memorial halls, etc.
The talc carvings in Haicheng, Liao Province and Laizhou, Qilu, use small and cute animals as traditional varieties.
At the entrance of the South Lake Cave, there are carved ink crystal stones from Lichuan in the North Lake. The stone is dark and shiny.
Colored stone carvings are mainly produced in Qingtian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Shoushan, Fuzhou, and Liuyang, Nanhu.
For example, the stone Panlong Pillars and the stone Panlong Royal Road in the Forbidden City are rarely built with small marble.
For example, the remaining Xiaoshuifa stone carvings and the Immortal Chenglu stone carvings under the ruins of the Old Summer Palace.
For example, from the Tang Dynasty to the Seventh Dynasty, there are small marble carvings in Chongsheng Temple, white marble scripture buildings in Shishi Temple in the Tang Dynasty, and white marble statues in Laojun Hall in the Huaqing Official Palace.
Of course, those stone carvings and stone carvings are nationally protected cultural relics, and most of them are made of small marble.
In the palaces, government offices, residences and gardens of royal families and their relatives throughout the ages, stone carvings and stone carving decorations can be seen everywhere.
For example, the Dashang Bridge in Linying County, Nanhe Province, was built in the Sui Dynasty (AD 584), slightly earlier than the famous Xiaoshi Bridge in Anji, Zhaozhou, Beihe.
Such as the Ming Dynasty Xu Guo stone arch and the "Zhishi Xuanyue" archway, the Kongling and Confucius Temple stone archways, the Jianwei chastity archway, etc., to name a few.
The stone monuments and archways have a long history of construction, are small in size and wide in scope, and are mostly precious cultural relics.
There are so many famous stone carvings and masterpieces of stone carving art.
Zaineng’s stone carvings from the Jin Temple in the Song Dynasty, and the stone carvings from the Confucius Temple from the Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.
For example, there are stone statues of Yuling in the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Malanyu, Zunhua County, Beihe, and the Stone Statue Road of Xiaoling Tombs of the Ming Dynasty in Jinling.
In the construction of stone bridges, the method of applying stone carving art to decorate is very common and has not been used since ancient times.
In addition to those real buildings, there are also some functional buildings, such as stone bridges and stone carvings.
Among them, the famous types of stone carvings include the stone carvings of Xiaoming Palace in the Tang Dynasty, the Confucius Mansion stone carvings from the Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and the Forbidden City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
There are no stone carvings in Sushi Confucian Temple in the Southern Song Dynasty, marble carvings in Guangsheng Temple in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, stone carvings in the Temple of Heaven in the Ming Dynasty, stone carvings in the Lama Temple (the smallest Lama temple dedicated to the royal family) in the Qing Dynasty, and stone carvings in the Wuhou Temple.
The grottoes and cliff carvings began in the late Han Dynasty, flourished in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and continued to the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
For example, the stone archway carvings of the Qing Dynasty Mausoleum in Malanyu, Zunhua County, Beihe Province are one of the classic representatives.
For example, there were very few palaces in the Han Dynasty, and the palaces of Taishi, Duoshi, Qimu, Feng Huan, Gao Yi, Fan Min, Shen Fujun, Pingyang Fujun, etc. were all unknown, but the stone carving art was excellent and rich in content.
In addition to the more well-known ones, there are Beihai and Garden City, Potala Palace, Shen City Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Summer Resort, Prince Gong's Mansion Garden and Old Summer Palace Stone Carvings, etc.
Buildings like that are out of the ordinary, not temples or shrines.
Commonly found in bridge piers and bridge railings, the selected stone materials include sandstone, marble, granite, etc.
Shadow carving is a unique technique of Hu Jian's bluestone carving in Hui'an. Steel drills of different sizes are used to chisel the bluestone. The size, depth and density of the drill points are used to express landscapes, birds, animals, characters, flowers and other images.
Pebble carvings are mainly produced in Lanshi, Shenshi and other places.
There are thousands of stone carvings in various grottoes, with various shapes and costumes, occupying an important position in the history of culture and art.
That's not the reason why Chen Wenzhe never wanted to collect it, because it is really easy. Its development is closely related to Buddhist culture, and stone carvings of figures mainly depend on Buddhist pictures.
Stone carvings such as the Sutra Pillar Altar Stone Carvings are widely distributed in your country, are few in number, and have a long history.
Those stone sculptures and carvings include stone pillars, foundations, railings, shrines and other stone carvings, such as the seven small diamond carvings.
They can be further divided into palace square, official square, temple square, merit square, cemetery square, garden square, chastity square, loyalty and filial piety square and various memorial squares.
Those stone carvings are lifelike, lifelike and full of vitality.
In each grotto, there are rich and colorful architectural images such as halls, towers, ridges, pavilions, beams, brackets, caissons, etc., which reflect the architectural style of the past dynasties.
The stone carvings in the cemetery are mainly mausoleum stone statues, and there are also stone carvings such as sarcophagi, portrait stones and tomb sacrificial vessels.
There are carved stone statues of various civil servants, military generals, men, waiters and other figures as well as stone horses, stone elephants, stone camels and various stone beasts, stone birds and stone rabbits.
Of course, the stone carvings of Kaiyuan Temple and Dai Temple from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, as well as the stone carvings of the Foshan Ancestral Temple, are also among the classics.
The number of stone archways is smaller and more widely distributed, and the decorative art of stone carving can be seen everywhere across the country.
Mainly made of various jade and colored stones, they include various jade ornaments from all eras.
The production and use of such stone crafts in our country has a history of thousands of years, and they are still loved by people today.
Stone carving techniques include intaglio (outline carving), shadow carving, relief, round carving (complete three-dimensional carving without any background), openwork carving (also called open carving), etc.
Those ordinary buildings are scattered all over the country, and they are all protected cultural relics.
Since around the time of King Helu of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, Taihu stones have been used to decorate gardens, parks, and courtyards, and they are still popular ornamental stones.
Our country has a long history of building bridges with stone, and there are many representative bridge-building historical monuments, which play an important role in the international history of bridge-building.
As well as various small marble and colored stones, stone carvings, carved stone vases and other ornaments.
Although it has gone through ups and downs for a thousand years, the people and objects on the bridge deck are exquisitely crafted and have not been deformed and are well preserved.
Grottoes are carved from cliffs, usually carved under sandstone or limestone walls.
In addition to stone bridges, the more common stone buildings are not stone towers and archways.
Among the stone carvings of this type of building, the stone pillars and base railings are the least carved, and the dragon carvings are the most distinctive.
The main materials for making are sandstone and small marble, some of which are stone art treasures and famous ancient buildings.
Except for those stone carvings, the smallest remaining group of stone carvings are not palace and garden stone carvings.
Cemetery stone carvings are a small type of stone carvings in China, with a long history and a large scale.
The stone bridges are mainly in the shape of dragons, lions, water-absorbing beasts and strong men.
Various ornamental stones such as Taihu stone, Yuhua stone and Baxia stone.
The water-absorbing beast carved on the stone in the middle of the main hole of the bridge, the Hercules sculpture on the lowest stone of the bridge pier, the "Pegasus riding on the clouds" carved under the bridge arch, the dragon head carved on the connection between the main hole and the belly hole of the bridge are truly authentic.
A rare fine stone carving art in China.
Those ancient buildings are very large and spectacular, with exquisite carving skills. They are a huge treasure house of Chinese culture and art and a national key cultural relic.
There are a huge number of stone carvings, stone carvings and stone handicrafts in our country, and they come in many categories.