What are the representatives of Shoushan stone carving in the late Qing Dynasty?

Shoushan stone carving is one of the folk carving arts in China. Shoushan stone carving skills are rich and varied, exquisite and mature, and are widely used in the development process, which combines the carving skills and artistic essence of Chinese painting and various folk crafts.

Its techniques mainly include round carving, button carving, fine carving, hollow carving, bas-relief, high relief, inlay carving, chain carving, seal cutting and micro-carving. Shoushan stone carving works have a wide range of themes, including figures, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc.

Shoushan stone carving in Fuzhou, together with bodiless lacquerware and cork painting in Fuzhou, is also called "three wonders of Rongcheng". Shoushan stone carving is a traditional folk carving art. Taking Shoushan stone produced in the northern mountainous area of Fuzhou as the material, small sculptures are made by special skills for people to enjoy. Shoushan stone carving attaches great importance to stone carving, so it is said that "one work and nine works", and its skills are mainly spread in Gushan, Yuefeng Town, Xiangyuan, Wangzhuang Street and Shoushan Township in Jinan District of Fuzhou City.

On May 20th, 2006, Shoushan Stone Carving was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

The origin of Shoushan stone carving is gradually promoted by archaeological discovery and textual research. Up to now, the oldest stone carving cultural relics unearthed in Shoushan should be in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589 AD). 1954, a Southern Dynasty tomb was found in the former site of Taohua Fujian Normal University in Cangshan District, Fuzhou, and a stone pig was unearthed. Height 1. 1 cm, length 6.4 cm, recumbent. It is carved with rectangular Shoushan aged stone in Fuzhou, with simple lines and knives and rough shape. In the recent ten years after 1956, similar Shoushan stone piglets were unearthed in fifteen tombs of the Six Dynasties in Fuzhou. 1965, a tomb of the Southern Dynasties was excavated at the Erfengshan site in the northern suburb of Fuzhou, and a pair of similar stone pigs and a tomb brick from the 22nd year of Yuanjia were also unearthed. In the 22nd year of Yuanjia, AD 445, it can be proved that the stone carving art of Shoushan started at least 1500 years ago. After the founding of New China, Shoushan stone carving began to recover in 1950s. In the 1970s, especially since the reform and opening-up, the East and the West merged and exchanged ideas, learned from each other's strong points, and at the same time absorbed the strengths of ancient and western art, which promoted the rapid development of carving technology, resulting in the combination of thin meaning, relief and high relief, as well as the development of new technologies such as through carving, hollow carving and silver inlay.

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