Sculpture art of ancestral temple in Foshan, Guangdong

The most commendable thing is that the architectural decoration of the ancestral hall uses a large number of pottery sculptures, wood carvings, brick carvings, gray sculptures and so on. Among them, there are six ceramic tile roofs for building, which are installed on the roofs of Sanmen, Qian Dian, Main Hall, Qian Dian Gallery and Qingzhen Building respectively. The largest three-door tile ridge. The total length is 32.02 meters. There are sculptures with the theme of drama stories on both sides. The faces and hands of the sculpture figures are exposed without glaze, so as to vividly express the expressions and hand shapes of the figures. The glaze color is mainly cyan, blue, yellow sauce and white, with noble and gorgeous colors, simple and elegant. After a hundred years of wind and rain, the glaze color of the tiles located in the ancestral hall is still as bright as new, which shows that its manufacturing technology is excellent. Grey plastic, also known as grey batch, is one of the folk arts with a long history in Foshan. Used for beautifying and decorating buildings, mainly in doorways, window frames, gable tops, eaves and ridges, pavilions, archways and so on. Its themes include figures, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds, calligraphy and painting, etc. In the ancestral temple, this kind of Foshan traditional folk gray sculpture art works abound. For example, the gray sculptures of the gates and foreheads on both sides of the ancestral hall: Tang Taizong's visit to the Moon Palace, Taoyuan's sworn friendship, Guo Ziyi's cherishing his life in the East Gallery, and Where is the sea in the West Gallery. In addition, there are: Eight Immortals, Three English Wars against Lu Bu, Drunk Liu Ling, and chess, calligraphy and painting works. This gray plastic art is vivid, vivid and colorful. Brick carving and stone carving are also one of Foshan folk handicrafts. Mainly used for architectural decoration. It is an architectural art with a long history in China. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was very popular to decorate buildings with these folk sculpture arts in the Pearl River Delta region. The archway of Ma Jun Ancestral Temple in Zumiao Park is decorated with brick carvings and stone carvings. Built in the 16th year of Zhengde in Ming Dynasty (152 1), it is one of the most complete and earliest brick carving decorative arts in Foshan. On both sides of the third door of the ancestral hall, the brick carving "Dahongpao" on the Duansu door (the story of Harry) and the "guarding the home and protecting the country" on the reverence door (the story of Niu Hao). The main features of these brick carvings are: exquisite carving, multi-level and centralized composition, strong subjectivity, skillful carving technology, multi-purpose round carving, through carving, relief and knife cutting, vigorous and neat, and very decorative. Careful visitors can find that there is no trace of the joints between bricks when watching the brick carvings in the ancestral temple, and its manufacturing technology is amazing.