What is a bluestone relief?

As a unique independent building in China traditional architecture, the bluestone relief is widely used in different types of buildings, such as residential buildings, palaces, official buildings, garden buildings and temples. From its birth, it meets the functions of "covering" and "hiding" of the entrance of ancient buildings, and gradually evolves into the function of beautifying the entrance and creating a spatial atmosphere. Therefore, zhaobi relief is a carrier that combines China's art and culture. After thousands of years of use and construction, it has left us not only the history of decoration, but also the satisfaction of people's psychological needs for space behavior and the value of creating a space environment.

Bluestone is the most environmentally friendly stone of all kinds. Because of its convenient materials, huge natural stock, wear resistance, weather resistance and no radiation, it is often used in furniture decoration and outdoor buildings. It is widely used by many stone carving artists in the architectural decoration of ancient temples.

Bluestone relief can show some characteristics of sculpture, so that the aesthetic effect of bluestone relief can attract both vision and touch. At the same time, bluestone relief can show the advantages of painting art in composition, theme and space treatment, and show the contents and objects that circular carving can't show. Bluestone relief can well represent the background and environment of events and characters, but also show the continuity and turning point of narrative plot, the free switching of different time and space perspectives, and the interspersed and overlapping of complex and diverse events. Hanging sculpture and modeling on the plane can make the bluestone relief integrate the technical advantages of sculpture and painting, and also ensure the diversity and diversification of bluestone relief techniques. It can also reduce the perspective in two-dimensional space, set off the background description and virtuality of the main image of bluestone relief, and make the expressive force of bluestone relief more expressive than other sculptures.

Bluestone relief murals have a wide range of artistic themes, but most of them are realistic figures, animals and flowers and birds.