Stone carvings are divided into what types according to the traditional way of modeling the surface of the carving?

Shadow carving. In the early years of the "needle black and white" process based on the development of new crafts. This carving to jade crystal lake lapis lazuli cut and sawed into a flat plate as a material, the first surface grinding, the use of its chiseling can show the characteristics of the white point, with the sharp and fine tools cut out the size, depth, sparse and dense micro-points, only divided into black and white different levels, so that the image shows, not only delicate and realistic, but also unique charm, is the stone carving to the development of the pure art, the production of stone carving process opens up a new way. Skeleton carving. Skeleton carving is a form of sculpture, also known as hollow carving, that is, the stone does not show the image of the part of the hollow, to show the image of the part to stay. Skeleton carving is a technique developed in the round carving, it is the three-dimensional spatial level of expression of the object Shoushan stone carving techniques. It is a Shoushan stone carving technique that expresses the three-dimensional spatial level of the object. It is developed from the traditional Chinese stone carving process. Ancient stonemasons often carve dragons with stone beads in their mouths. Dragon beads stripped from the original stone, larger than the dragon's mouth, rolling in the dragon's mouth without slipping out. This "bead" moving in the dragon's button is the simplest form of openwork carving. Relief carving. That is, on the surface of the stone carved with a three-dimensional image, is a semi-dimensional type of carving.

Because the image is convex on the surface of the stone and called relief carving. According to the stone surface off the depth of the different degrees of points, and is divided into shallow relief and high relief. Shallow relief is a single-level statue, the content is relatively single, no hollowing through the. High relief is a multi-layered statue, the content is more complex, more to take the hollowing out of the carving technique, more fascinating. Round carving. Is the existence of a single three-dimensional stylized works of art, each side of the stone requires processing, technology to hollowing techniques and fine chopping axe is famous. Class carvings of many kinds, most of the single stone sculpture, but also by a combination of multiple stone, in recent years such carvings have developed a lot of promotion of miniature products, some as small as a kernel of fruit, some as thin as a cicada's wing, but also ingenious, known as "micro-carving".