Quanzhou stone culture famous at home and abroad

In understanding the culture of Quanzhou, you will find that Quanzhou is not only famous for its tea culture. It is also a stone culture with a long history. It has been passed down for thousands of years. You'll find that most of the buildings in the past were built of stone. Quanzhou stone culture is famous at home and abroad, take a look!

Quanzhou Hui'an stone culture has a long history, dating back to more than a thousand years. It is reported that Hui'an stone carving early appeared in the late Tang Wang Chao tomb mausoleum stone carving group, the Northern Song Dynasty Luoyang Bridge stone carving group, the Southern Song Dynasty Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple within the East and West Pagoda, Chongwu City in the early Ming Dynasty. In this long millennium, Hui'an people have laid the foundation of stone carving skills.

During the Qing Dynasty, Hui'an stone carving techniques advanced by leaps and bounds, and created the "round carving hollow" carving method, the stone into the art of aura and life. Especially the stone carving of dragons and lions, its form, charisma vivid, fully express the soul of the Chinese nation and the indomitable spirit. Hui'an people proud of the late Qing Dynasty Hui'an old stone store "Jiang Yuan Cheng" of the third generation of Jiang Renwen, with a set of lapis lazuli round table and openwork drum chair in the Summer Palace craft competition, won the "stone carving of the title of the crown", a sensation of China's craft sector.

From the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China, Hui'an stone carvings have been exported to Taiwan and Southeast Asia, such as a pair of Longshan Temple in Taipei, known as the "heaven and earth out of the coiled dragons" "Qinglong" arsenic stone columns, Tainan County, Longhai, "White Reef Ciqi Officer" 10 dragon stone columns, Singapore Fujian Association of Tianfu Palace of the dragon columns and stone decorations.

It can be seen that Hui'an stone culture has y influenced the folk culture and architectural style of Taiwan and Southeast Asia. For thousands of years, the industrious, brave and wise people of Hui'an have formed an unbreakable bond with stone and created a set of unique crafts such as sunken carving, line carving, relief carving, round carving (including hollowing), shadow carving and micro-carving, etc.

This is the first time that Hui'an stone culture has been y influenced by Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Shadow carving is a new species of Huian stone carving, is a major breakthrough in the stone carving process, so it is known as "stone carving wonders", "China's best". Since the reform and opening up, Hui'an stone enterprises have adopted new technology and new equipment, the production of a large number of stone crafts, welcomed by Chinese and foreign merchants. At present, Huian building materials and stone artifacts exported to all over the world, in the international enjoyment of "stone carving and construction of the hometown", "Stone Kingdom" of the name.