Why is it called "the hometown of stone carving"

Because this area is rich in stone carvings, it is called "the hometown of stone carvings".

The four major stone carving towns in China are Wenling, Zhejiang, Hui 'an, Fujian, Qingtian, Zhejiang and Quyang, Hebei.

Fujian Huian 1

Hui 'an stone carving can be divided into round carving, relief carving, heavy carving and shadow carving. Re-carving is mainly used for the decoration of building walls, monuments, memorial archways, cliff stone carvings, plaques and house couplets. With the shape of lines as the main feature, lines are required to be rigid, supple and smooth. Representative works include the large-scale stone carving of "Sunmoon and Sunmoon" in Yuhuatai Memorial Hall in Nanjing.

2. Shandong Jiaxiang

The earliest stone lion in China is located in Jiaxiang-"Stone Carving of Wu Tombs". This is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council. It has been designated as a world cultural heritage by the United Nations. Loulan Shishi-bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, magnificent, powerful and domineering, exorcising evil spirits out of town, making friends make money.

3. qingtian county, Zhejiang Province

Qingtian stone carving has a long history, which can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties. This point has been verified by the Shang Dynasty cultural relic "Fish and Rain Man" unearthed in Xingan County 1989 winter. Qingtian stone carving has won many gold and silver awards in international fairs and won a high reputation. After the founding of New China, it was chosen by the Party and the state as a national gift to foreign heads of state for many times.

4. Quyang County, Hebei Province

On the 4-kilometer-long carving road in Quyang County, Hebei Province, millions of animal-shaped stone carvings such as stone lions, stone horses with flowing manes and giraffes are lifelike, as if they had entered a "wild zoo"; Strolling in the sculpture exhibition square, there are nearly 6,543.8+10,000 stone carvings, jade carvings, landscape stones, stone carvings and other carving products, which seem to be in the "Yulin Stone Sea".

Extended data

There are various design methods of stone carving, which can be divided into relief, round carving, re-carving, shadow carving, carving and general carving.

1, relief That is, carving a three-dimensional image on the stone surface is a semi-three-dimensional sculpture. Because the image is embossed on the stone surface, it is called relief. According to the degree of stone removal, it can be divided into shallow relief and high relief.

The bas-relief is a single-level statue with simple content and no hollowing out. High relief is a multi-level sculpture with complex content. It is more attractive to take hollowing out by carving. Relief is mostly used for wall decoration of buildings, as well as dragon columns and drums in temples. The Imperial Palace in Beijing is a relief.

2, round carving. It is a single three-dimensional quasi-modeling art, and every surface of the stone needs to be processed. This technology is good at hollowing out and fine chopping axe. There are many kinds of this kind of carving, most of which are carved from one stone, and some are made up of multiple stones. This kind of carving has developed many miniature products, some as small as stones, some as thin as cicadas, and even more ingenious, so it is called "micro-carving".

This kind of products have completely divorced from architectural practicality and become pure handicrafts. Because they are small in size and easier to carry, they are commemorative treasures and have good development prospects.

3. Re-carve. Also known as "line carving", it is a work of art that uses the carving method of "grinding water and sinking flowers". This carving method absorbs the traditional brushwork and meaning of Chinese painting, the overlapping of line modeling, scattered perspective and so on. After the stone is polished by plane processing, the pattern characters are described, and then lines are carved according to the graphics, and the three-dimensional sense is reflected by shadows. This kind of products are mostly used for the surface decoration of building exterior walls, which is artistic.