What do you know about stone carving?

Stone carving refers to the art of creating a visible and tangible artistic image with a certain space with all kinds of carved stones to reflect social life and express the artist's aesthetic feelings, feelings and ideals. Commonly used stones are granite, marble, bluestone and sandstone. Stone is hard and weathering-resistant, and it is the main material for large-scale commemorative sculptures. Stone carving pays attention to realistic modeling, round and delicate techniques and smooth and free patterns. Its traditional skills began in Han Dynasty, matured in Wei and Jin Dynasties and became popular in Tang Dynasty. There are mainly garden sculptures, architectural sculptures, statues, stone carving handicrafts, etc. There are hundreds of products: marble mantelpiece, figure sculptures, reliefs, abstract sculptures, fountains, flower pots, Roman columns, railings, pavilions, busts, door covers, stone benches, bathtubs, animal sculptures, tombstones, antique sculptures, etc. Stone carving has a long history. It pays attention to realistic modeling, mellow and delicate techniques and smooth and free patterns. Carving products mainly include figures, animals, fireplaces, flowerpots, fences, fountains, reliefs, Long Ting Dragon Column, Qionglou Jade Pavilion, birds and animals, and various fine carvings. It not only has the charm of ancient art, but also has an elegant and lively modern art style, and enjoys the reputation of "wonderful workmanship" and "creating the world" at home and abroad.

Stone carving is a variety of artistic works integrating creativity, design and production. In short, it is a work carved out of stone-artwork. Strong and weathering-resistant, therefore, in Lingnan architecture, in addition to stone pagodas, stone bridges, stone workshops, stone pavilions and stone tombs, it is more used in building components and decoration. Although there are many kinds of stone carving products and many classification methods, their processing procedures are basically the same, which are generally divided into: stone selection, mold making, blank forming, product forming, local carving, polishing, cleaning, product assembly acceptance and packaging. There are four traditional manual processing techniques for processing these stone carvings: "kneading". This is not only a sample making, but also a creative design process. Some sculptures are sketched before blank, while others are made of clay or gypsum models. "Carving" is to dig out the useless stones according to the line pattern first. "Tick", also called "tick", means to remove the extra stones from the outside according to the figure. The "carving" is finally carefully cut to shape the carving.