stone carving

   
Hangzhou Mei Museum exhibition of Qingtian stone carving

11 new opening of the Museum of fine arts in Hangzhou, is currently undergoing an Qingtian stone carving show. Qingtian stone carving, pitching tool taken away ghosts, who skillfully than natural, known as "embroidery on the stone" of art. Its origins can be traced back to more than 6,000 years "songze culture" during the "Shi Huang". To the five dynasties and song, through the height of the medium-term development of feudal society, techniques have reached a certain level. By the middle of the Ming dynasty, Qingtian stone carving began underperforming in the world, and in the Qing dynasty and early Republic of China as the Jiangnan famous product is selected as the tribute. In 2006, the State Council released the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, Qingtian stone carving techniques listed. Museum of fine arts in Hangzhou held in conjunction with Museum of Qingtian Qingtian stone carving boutique exhibition,

Stone window mainly

Stone window mainly in China's Yangtze River, as with brick carving featuring South of folk characteristics. The so-called "stone window", that is, with stones carved out of the window, it can both unventilated light, but also with security features. Hunan native stone of the Hall window pattern, one is "outing" another is "wind and rain late." The stone window selection in the Zhejiang region of blue stone carved into left and right edges on both sides using large area of space techniques commonly used in traditional Chinese painting, only to low relief decoration with traditional Lotus Leaf stems, a few pens, Lotus live together. As a background pattern, stone carving artists also make full use of embossed and hollowing carving, engraving and line engraving process, such as, alternating each other and flexibility, building huts, in the ancient architecture, window lattice Portal cornices Erythroculter angle, ancient tree qiuzhi, heighten the role of environment, with great stereoscopic effect. It will the Yangtze River in the town of ancient life, were evident, stunning.

So, whether it's brick carving, still stone, not only in art left for posterity a valuable asset, and hosted at the national culture of folk and cultural essence of ancient Chinese for thousands of years. Everything's eventual, however, these exquisite carving, not many today remains down, hence more and more precious.

though after storms

Although after storms the vicissitudes, fortunately preserved many beautiful "three carvings", with brick carving most eye-catching Medal, one of the most pleasing. Such as in fourth into stalls of rooms on both sides of, has two block high 2.3 m, wide 1.1 m around of landing through carved screen brick, East for "Samsung birthday" figure, West for "Eight Immortals tour mountain" figure, are composition ingenious, carved workers fine, stereoscopic effect very strong, around not only carved has flowers, and back sheath, and milk nail and Xiangyun, and its symbol lucky rich of national traditional culture also is strong. In addition, there is on the gate tower of brick carving in component "xibochang White River to visit Xian" plans, "Zhou Mu dynasty saw the Queen Mother" figure, "" Laozi riding a green cow letter off "figure, and so on, South of brick carving art of Ming and Qing dynasties to the extreme, amazing.

Stone carving: characterizations and detailed exquisite stone carving. Stone carving is also a Shi Yi on the stone art, also as "three carvings", but because of hard stone carving material, selected materials such as marble, granite and blue stone, hence carving is not easy. But relatively speaking compared with brick carving easy Save.

Stone carving from the materials and technology, such effects on the solid rock art of the process, it is stone carving category. The exception contents and subject matter of rich and colorful stone carving, historical figure, Buddha story, war, hunting, farming, and so on, all is modelling simple vivid, characterizations and detailed subtle. For example, Shanghai Lao Chengxiang District park there is a name of the ancient city of Qing dynasty in Hunan native Association building, it is said that the site of Zha bei, its brick carving on both sides of the gate tower on shine, inlaid with rustic refined "stone window".