Difference between Su and Yin School

The Shu School is a realistic style of carving, with a strong sense of facial musculature and a wealth of realistic features of the human face, and the reason it is called the Shu School is that it was founded by Shu Yin-sheng. In my personal opinion, the so-called Yin School and Su School are actually two different styles, not good or bad. Because of the different aesthetic orientation, according to their own preferences to choose.

Yin school 18 Luohan head carving more delicate, belongs to the "horizontal and vertical" type, out of the work is very neat, and is more traditional is a combination of knife carving and polishing is generally carved is a long core of Luohan The reason why it is called the Yin school is Yin Genfu for the originator.