It's better now. Looking at the stone carving factory in front of me, there are stone carvings everywhere. It can be said that all kinds of classic stone carvings from all over the country are gathered together.
Encountered this kind of opportunity, Chen Wenzhe really wanted to take it in his pocket.
However, it shouldn't be too simple, because the stone carvings here are so complete and the carvings are so good.
Not to mention other things, the stone carvings of the tower building in front of you are definitely not simple.
There are many stone pagodas built in the past dynasties in our country, among which those decorated with stone carving art are common.
The stone carvings in the pagoda inside the temple are mostly related to various religious cultures.
For example, the Three Pagodas of Dali from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, the Yunju Temple Pagoda and Stone Sutra built from the Tang Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty, the Sakyamuni Pagoda from the Song Dynasty, etc.
There are often some stone book carvings in these pagodas and temples.
Stone carvings are a type of inscriptions. The types of stele include monuments, memorial stele, merit stele, temple stele, palace character stele, mausoleum stele, etc.
Except for a few steles without words, they are generally steles with words.
Usually the body of the stele is engraved with text, and sometimes it is accompanied by engraved patterns.
The stele base and stele cover are often engraved with patterns, birds, animals, flowers, and mascots. The stele cover of the emperor's family is also engraved with dragons and phoenixes, etc.
Most of the stones used to make stele are marble, but sandstone and granite are also commonly used.
Some of the stone monuments are huge individually, and some become a forest of group monuments.
Stone writing uses stone instead of paper, and engraving instead of writing, which is an ingenious workmanship.
There are many famous stone tablets and stone calligraphy sculptures. For example, "Chang'an Forest of Steles" contains more than 3,000 historical stone tablets from the Han to the Qing Dynasty, and is the largest collection of stone books in the country.
Together with the "Hanlin Forest of Steles" under construction in Kaifeng, it can be said to be a sea of steles.
These two places collect the masterpieces of regular script, running script, cursive script, seal script, official script and Wei style calligraphy by famous calligraphers of past dynasties.
In addition to large-scale carvings such as stone tablets and cliff carvings, there are also other stone books and stone carvings.
Such as mourning books in emperors' tombs and modern finely carved small stone books.
For example, more than 100 white marble mourning volumes were unearthed from the tomb of the prince of the Tang Dynasty. In modern Sichuan, there are six stone books of "Thirty-six Stratagems" carved in tile slate, with a total of 26 pages and 1,278 words. They are bound into volumes with eyeliner and each page is thick.
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In addition to these stone carvings, there are the largest number of stone lion carvings.
Among the stone animal carvings in my country, stone lion carvings are unique, produced in countless quantities, and have a wide range of decorative uses.
Such as the stone lion carvings on both sides of the gates of palaces, residences, government offices, temple-shaped mausoleums, and modern large-scale commercial buildings, hotels, and restaurants, as well as the stone lion decorative carvings on bridges, monuments, squares, etc.
The body shape of stone lions changes in various ways, such as standing, squatting, lying, etc., and there are often regional differences.
The stone lions are carved from a wide range of materials, mostly made of sandstone, marble and granite.
There are many types of stone paintings, handicrafts, stone paintings, and life art supplies.
Such as stone cliff paintings, natural colored stone paintings, inlaid stone murals and stone screens and other stone painting carvings;
Duanxiyu, Lu, Taohe, Songhua, Temple of Heaven (or Pangu) and Helan inkstone sculptures;
Paperweights, stationery and stone carvings;
Tea sets, wine sets, smoked stone sets, lamps and daily necessities such as tables, chairs, stools and coffee tables, crafts and stone carvings, etc., which are large in quantity and exquisitely made;
Inkstone carvings and other unique styles have become a wonder of Chinese stone culture, and inlaid stone murals are a new unique feature of contemporary stone carving art.
For example, the colorful stone landscape paintings and carvings in the first floor hall of the newly completed Central Television Tower are magnificent and the skills are amazing.
In modern times, stone carving has not become history, but has become more common. Because the processing tools are more advanced and it is easier to process stone carvings, commemorative stone carvings have begun to rise.
In order to beautify the city, improve the material and spiritual life of the people, and commemorate martyrs and heroes, our country has built some urban gardens and commemorative stone sculptures.
Especially since 1978, urban sculptures, garden sculptures and commemorative sculptures in large and medium-sized cities across the country have developed rapidly.
During this period, marble and granite carvings were unprecedentedly popular, and a number of them are rare and precious stone carvings.
As mentioned before, there are white marble reliefs in Tianmen Square, white marble and Shu white marble statues in the Memorial Hall and Renmin South Road in Sichuan, and the white marble statues of Tianjin Nankai University.
The above various stone carving arts often include two or more in a large building.
For example, temple stone carvings often include steles, squares, towers, lions and other stone carvings.
They set off each other and the decoration is integrated, forming a complete set of stone carving group art, and its comprehensive cultural and artistic value is extremely high.
These are the Chinese stone carving culture. Since it exists in China, it also exists abroad, and its artistic level is also very high.
In the West, stone carving practitioners are called stone sculptors, and they are considered to be in the same group as painters and artists.
In our country, stone carving practitioners are called craftsmen. Their social status is low and they are only called ordinary practitioners or even rough workers.
With the influx of Western stone carving, these stone carving practitioners were recognized, and stone carving was listed as an important part of fine art.
At this time, the status of stone sculptors in our country was elevated, and the public's recognition of stone sculptors increased.
This is one of the reasons why Western stone sculptures differ from Chinese stone sculptures.
From a practical perspective, in modern times, although Chinese stone carving craftsmen and Western stone sculptors are very similar in their creative forms.
However, the social responsibilities they shoulder are quite different.
In our country, stone carving personnel are still part of the traditional division of labor.
Its main duties are to build statues for temples and carve stones for buildings.
On the one hand, they do not have the freedom to create independently.
In terms of the objects of expression and the space in which the works are located, their works lack the ability to intervene in social reality.
In the West, stone sculptures created freely in the "studio" can express one's own observations of society through works, and the power of the works is no less powerful than that of painters of the same generation.
Western stone sculptures that accept custom orders from all parties and profit from them can enter various public spaces in modern society.
For example, in squares, streets, and parks, his works will naturally attract public attention.
This is another reason why Western stone carvings are different from Chinese stone carvings.
"Is this a foreign temple? The Temple of Baalbek?"
It was because he saw a foreign-style building that Chen Wenzhe thought of Western stone sculptures.
He really didn't expect that he would see a miniature temple building next.
Thinking about it at this time, there is a reason to imitate this temple, because it is one of the most magical ruins on the World Heritage List.
However, why do these scaled-down versions of Western buildings that Chen Wenzhe saw not taste right?
"It's actually a bit ironic? Like fake? Or does he mean that these buildings are fake?"
Chen Wenzhe laughed as he looked at them. Each of the scaled-down versions of ancient Western buildings here looked a little wretched.
If you zoom in to the real version, you may feel shocked when you look at it, but when you zoom out, it really doesn’t look good.
Maybe this is the author's original intention? He just doesn't like these Western buildings?