What kind of art does brick carving belong to?

Brick carving is the art of carving on bricks. Before carving, you must make suitable bricks. Bricks are made of clay and fired at high temperature. Bricks used for carving must have the characteristics of wear resistance, moisture resistance and moderate hardness. Therefore, there are special requirements when processing raw materials. The soil must be stirred and filtered with clear water, repeatedly precipitated, deslagging, dried and pressed into blanks. After firing, the brick blank should be polished smooth and flat. Due to the differences in raw materials, firing methods and blank shapes, there are blue bricks, red bricks, tile bricks and strip bricks, square bricks and hollow bricks. Technology is an important factor to form the art of brick carving. Up to now, the techniques of brick carving have basically inherited the techniques of Ming and Qing dynasties, mainly including burning, biting, chiseling and pushing. Combustion is the oldest process. First, adobe is molded by clay sculpture or die pressing, and then fired in a kiln. It is characterized by easy processing and low cost, but the disadvantage is that the modeling effect is few and not fine enough. Burning is a technology of further processing and carving on the basis of burning. Compared with firing, it takes time and labor. After firing, the blank line of the finished product is crisp, rigid and flexible, and the carved works are well-organized, which is suitable for close viewing. Chiseling is a process of directly chiseling on the finished brick.

There are techniques such as yin line, level work, line work, deep talk, through hole, through work and round body. The technique is comprehensive and expressive. Ceramic ash plastic is a technology widely used in roof decoration. In folk buildings in Guangdong, Fujian and coastal areas, ceramic gray plastics are often used for roofs and walls. This craft is developed and created on the basis of brick carving, which is characterized by complexity and strong color, more or less mixed with some western architectural decoration styles. The pottery gray plastic ridges in Fujian are sometimes decorated with shells, which are colorful and dazzling. The two ends of the main ridge of the roof decorated with pottery gray plastic rise very high, and there are dovetail forks at the rising point, forming a flying trend. The center of the main ridge is mostly animal ridges such as pagodas, dragons and pearls, double peaks and Chaoyang, and both ends are often decorated with fish kisses. The specific carving techniques of brick carving are roughly the same as other carving categories, that is, flat carving, which carves patterns on a plane of a material and expresses the theme through various lines, usually mainly flowers and other patterns; Relief is to carve uneven lines and stripes on a plane, which can be divided into shallow relief and high relief according to the degree of unevenness.