Origin and distribution of stone carvings

Liuyang, Hunan

Liuyang belongs to Changsha City, located in the eastern north of Hunan Province, east of Tonggu, Jiangxi Province, Wanzai, Yichun; south of Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province and Hunan Province, Liling, Zhuzhou; west of Changsha, the capital of the province; the northern boundary of Yueyang City, Pingjiang. In ancient times, Liuyang belonged to Jingzhou, and it was named because the county town was located in the sun of Liuzhou Water. In the 14th year of Jian'an of the Eastern Han Dynasty (209 AD), it was one of the "salary counties" of Zhou Yu, a general of the Eastern Wu Dynasty. Liuyang has been established for 1,790 years. Liuyang is also known as the "Hometown of Generals" and the "Hometown of Firecrackers". The popular dialects are Liuyang, Changsha and Hakka.

270 million years ago, the shallow sea due to the geological movement, part of the seabed silt, marine organisms deep into the earth's crust, after hundreds of millions of years of high temperature and high pressure cohesion evolved into a biological fossil, the formation of the world's unique natural color chrysocolla ore. At the end of the last century, this valuable resource in Hunan Liuyang River was discovered and developed and applied, it stone color rich, stone tough and delicate, and contains beneficial to the human body of strontium, selenium and other trace elements, more prominent chrysanthemum stone of the rare and precious.

Hui'an, Fujian

Hui'an, located in the middle of southeast coast of Fujian, across the sea from Taiwan, is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Fujian and one of the main ancestry of the Han Chinese compatriots in Taiwan, belonging to the city of Quanzhou, with a population of 930,000 people, covering an area of 668 square kilometers, ranked among the top 100 counties in the country's economy, the Ministry of Culture was awarded the "Chinese Folk Art (carving) Townships It has been awarded as the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art (Carving)" by the Ministry of Culture and the "Stone Carving Capital of China" by the China Arts and Crafts Association. Hui'an carving art has a long history, originated from the Yellow River basin carving art integration of the Central Plains culture, Fujian and Yue culture, marine culture in one, draw the Jin and Tang legacy, Song and Yuan charm, the essence of the Ming and Qing style, the formation of carved, delicate and dynamic style of the Southern School of art, and architectural art, and become a Chinese excellent traditional culture of a flower. Hui'an stone carving is divided into several categories such as round carving, relief carving, sunken carving, shadow carving and so on. Sinking carving is mainly used for architectural wall decorations and monuments and pagodas, pagodas, cliff stone carvings, plaques, mansion couplets, etc., with the line modeling as the main feature, the requirements of the line is strong and powerful, smooth and smooth up to. Representatives of Nanjing Yuhuatai Memorial Hall, "the sun and the moon" of large stone carvings. Relief refers to the image of relief on the surface of the stone, used for large-scale monumental buildings, high-grade mansions, residential stone decorations, representative of the Republic of China in the early years of the Mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing, Nanjing, Guanghua Pavilion of the goldfish pond and so on. Carving business. Wenling, Zhejiang

Wenling is one of the four major hometowns of stone carving in China, the culture and history of stone carving has a long history. The earliest start in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming Dynasty Jiajing years, stone carving craft has flourished. Taizhou folk has circulated the folk song "Huangyan honey orange Yandang pine, Taiping stone work Tiantai bell". Wenling City, there are more than 40 stone carving enterprises, practicing stone carving artists nearly 2,000 people, of which 80% of the high dragon stone carving artists. The rise of the stone carving industry, has become the economic development of Wenling City, another new growth point.

In order to *** with the creation of the stone carving market, to maintain the industry's longevity, Wenling City, Wenling City, GaoLong township government in the village of PuSan specializing in the allocation of 30 acres of land, focusing on the township more than 30 stone carving enterprises to establish GaoLong stone carving park. The government is responsible for water, electricity, roads and other park facilities, develop preferential policies, the implementation of taxes, electricity and other aspects of tilt, so that the stone carving industry has become a pillar industry in the township, accounting for more than half of the industrial output value. In the face of the coming new century, Wenling people continue to improve the scientific and technological content of the stone carving process, the introduction and application of advanced technology to transform the traditional stone carving process, began to use computerized lettering design and artificial carving combined with new methods, the production of a number of high grade, well loved by the people's stone carving handicrafts.

Qingtian, Zhejiang

Qingtian is a famous stone carving hometown, Zhejiang key hometown of overseas Chinese, but also the hometown of celebrities, cultural capital. Qingtian has a superior ecological environment, numerous scenic spots and beautiful natural scenery. We warmly welcome you to come to travel and sightseeing, **** appreciation of Qingtian stone carving culture.

Shandong Jiaxiang

Jiaxiang stone carving skillful, exotic style, is the successive generations of the government to the imperial court tribute of the fine products. These stone carvings to the local abundance of lapis lazuli as the main raw material, supplemented by marble, alabaster and other famous stone jade, selection of materials, fine workmanship, specifications vary, a variety of varieties, mainly to carve the dragon pavilion and dragon pillars, jeweled pavilions, birds and beasts, people, flowers and plants and antique utensils to excel in the round carving, line carving, relief carving, flat carving of the four types of carvings, both the ancient artistic charm, but also elegant and bright modern artistic style, at home and abroad enjoy the "In 1996, Jiaxiang was named "Hometown of Chinese Stone Carving" by the state. Ten thousand pieces of stone carving, jade carving, landscape stone, stone and other carving products, as if in the "Yulin Stone Sea". Quyang County carving industry management office deputy director Yao Minzhe said that in the Western Han Dynasty Quyang stone carving has begun to take shape; Tang Dynasty, Quyang became the birthplace of northern white jade statues and carving center; to the Yuan Dynasty Quyang stone carving to reach its peak. From the Yungang Grottoes, Leshan Giant Buddha, Dunhuang Grottoes, Wutai Mountain Buddha, Afang Palace, the Forbidden City, Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace, to the Jinshui Bridge in front of Tiananmen Square, the Great Hall of the People, the Monument to the People's Heroes, Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall, and other buildings, everywhere left the Quyang people's carving art.

Taiwan Puli

Taiwan Nantou Puli town is located in the central part of the island, stone carving, water quality, wine, beauty is Puli town's famous four most, Taiwan's top ten elegant stone of the first stone carving of the Iron Marble is produced in the scenic Puli, Puli de Shaoxing wine is famous all over the world, but also thanks to the gift of excellent water quality. The unique natural conditions have made the town rich in produce and everyone is well off. Attracted by the pure beauty and quiet life in Puli, more and more artists have taken root here, creating a strong local humanistic temperament, a variety of handicrafts bloom, especially the most prevalent stone carving, Tiemuan stone carving is one of the most important.

The best iron pill stone formed in 4000 meters or deeper seabed, its density, gloss, iron content are the best. Because of the special conditions of its formation, this type of high-quality Iron Marble stone is particularly valuable, accounting for less than 2% of Taiwan's total Iron Marble stone production. Iron marble stone carving, is a selection of good iron marble stone carving, its stone quality can be said to be the roots of the red.

Tiemuan Stone was formed about two million years to more than 20 million years ago, very rare. And because of its black and gray stone heart, stone skin color sinking like iron, so the name "Iron Marble Stone". Iron pill stone than the general stone of high density and texture, stone quality is super fine, warm and moist, like the ancient beauty Xishi like natural beauty, noble gas, also known as "Xishi stone".

Puri Tiehwan stone stone carving adhere to the Zen quiet, elegant and dynamic artistic qualities, while maintaining the beauty of the heavenly music, according to the art, for home decoration, personal collection, gifts, etc., to provide outstanding stone carving artwork. Stone carving products *** there are two series, respectively, "a corner of the Zen" and "true love of the stone" two series, the product set ornamental and gift in one, with refreshing themes and styles, for the Chinese traditional crafts and gifts industry to inject a ray of fresh.

Dashiwu stone carving

Beijing Fangshan District, Dashiwu town reserves extremely rich stone resources, excellent quality, many varieties. The development of stone materials can be traced back to the earliest warring states Yan, has a history of more than two thousand years. The color and lustre of clean and easy to carve white jade for the building stone in the national treasure, the Forbidden City in Beijing and other palace buildings and the Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace and other royal gardens used in the stone more than from the Dashiwu. After the reform and opening up, the town of Dashiwu alabaster carving and stone processing has made great progress, stone carving technology is widely used in modern architecture, not only exported throughout the country, but also out of the country sold to many countries and regions of the world. Because of the cultural nourishment of stone carving, Dashiwu that won the "township of stone carving art", "township of painting and calligraphy", "China's folk art township" reputation, including the stone nest carving family Liu's family stone carving In August 2004, the National Development and Reform Commission will be listed as the national stone carving industry characteristics of small towns.

Hui'an stone carving

In the Ming Dynasty, Hui'an a lot of people on the examination of the scholar, there are a lot of pagodas there are also a lot of stone carving products in the cemetery. Chongwu ancient city was built in the early Ming Dynasty, the relics are Zhang Yue tomb of the General, horses, tigers, sheep, Chongwu City God Temple stone lions and so on, these are symbolized by the higher level of craftsmanship at that time of stone carving. However, at that time the Ming Dynasty Chongwu ancient city was destroyed, the stone city is in the Qing Dynasty time to rebuild.

The Qing Dynasty is the Huian stone carving period of great development, the artistic style tends to fine carving, focusing on the line structure and form the beauty of the charm, the formation of the Huian stone carving of the southern style. This period, is the Huian stone carving development history of the next period, but also the stone carving workers began to go out of Huian outward development period. In addition to all parts of the province, it was also developed to Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia through overseas Chinese and merchants. From the Sino-Japanese War, the island of Taiwan, a great architectural trend. Many Hui'an craftsmen were absorbed into Taiwan to participate in stone carving production, and many of them settled in Taiwan. The stone carving skills brought by Zhang's men became an important medium for the relationship between Fujian and Taiwan. After the liberation, Huian stone carving craftsmen gained new development. In the 1960s, the construction of Ao Yuan in Jimei, the construction of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and in the 1980s, the memorial hall of Chairman Mao, the Memorial Hall of the Eighty-first Uprising in Nanchang, the Yuhuatai Memorial Hall in Nanjing, the statue of A-Ma Zu on Mae Chau Island, and the statue of Zheng Chenggong in Xiamen, all poured a lot of effort into the stone carving craftsmen of Hui'an.

Since the opening of the economy in 79 years, especially after the first carving festival, Hui'an stone carving into the modern art elements, and the carving of the art of integration, injected new vitality. Especially new standards, new ideas, new perspectives. Hui'an stone carving art has become the county's economic growth point, in 2003, the county carving direct plus indirect value is 10 billion yuan, the export exchange rate of 6 billion, and ultimately by the Ministry of Culture of the State awarded the "Hometown of China carving".