Huizhou three carvings of Huizhou architecture

Huizhou three carvings refers to the huizhou style of brick carving, stone carving, wood carving three han folk carving craft short. Huizhou "three carvings" to jixi, shexian, yixian, wuyuan county is the most typical, preservation is relatively good. Mainly used for residential, ancestral halls, temples, gardens and other architectural decoration, as well as ancient furniture, screen, pen holder, fruit plate and other craft carving. The history of "three carvings" originated in the Song Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Ming dynasty carving rough, simple, generally only flat carving and shallow relief, with the help of line modeling, and lack of perspective changes, but emphasizes symmetry, rich in decorative interest. Qing dynasty carving delicate stellar compound, composition, layout absorbed the expression of the new school of painting, pay attention to artistic beauty, more deep relief and round carving, advocate hollow effect, some hollow level up to more than ten layers, pavilions and buildings, trees and landscapes, people and animals, birds and insects in the same picture, Ling now transparent, staggered, clear, lifelike, showing the carving craftsmen's superb artistic talent. Wood carving is mainly used in the old buildings and household utensils on the decoration, throughout the city and countryside, its wide distribution can be seen everywhere in the country. Inside the house screen, window pillars, columns, daily use of beds, tables, chairs, cases and stationery can be seen on the style of wood carving, almost no village is not there. Huizhou wood carvings of a wide range of subjects, there are figures, landscapes, flowers, animals, insects and fish, clouds, back to the pattern, eight treasures Bogu, the text of the tin, as well as a variety of auspicious motifs and so on. Huizhou wood carving is based on the needs and possibilities of the components of the architectural objects, using round, relief, perspective and other methods of expression. The early years of the Ming Dynasty. Huizhou wood carving has begun to take shape, the carving style is clumsy and simple rough expansion, to plane light relief method is given priority to. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the financial strength of the Huizhou merchants, show off the growing awareness of the township, the art of wood carving is also stream by stream to the transition of fine carving, multi-layer carving to replace the plane of shallow carving has become the mainstream.