What do you know about brick carving?

Brick carving refers to the landscape, flowers, people and other patterns carved on the green brick, is a very important form of art in the carving of ancient architecture, the production process and the core point lies in the use of gold brick grade finished bricks for the depth of the surface of the carving, which is our country hundreds of years of traditionally true brick carving, traditional brick carving delicate and delicate, vivid and extremely rich in the booklet and other characteristics. Brick carving is a kind of carving with brick as a carving object, it is imitated stone carving, but more economical than stone carving, labor-saving, and thus also more often used, especially in folk architecture. In residential buildings, brick carvings are used for the gate gatehouse, the hill wall Edward, the wall, etc., the performance style to strive for vivid, lively. In the carving techniques, also with wood, stone carvings are similar, there are picking the ground, hidden carving, relief, translucent carving, round carving, multi-layer carving and so on. Brick carving has both the stone carving of the rigidity of the texture and, with wood carving of the exquisite soft and smooth, showing a combination of rigid and soft and simple and elegant style. Brick-making: Chinese brick carving most often use specially fired bricks, are extremely fine particles of clay or river bottom sedimentation sludge as raw materials, and sometimes also apply special firing process, to ensure that the finished product is even texture, soft and hard moderate, does not contain air holes. For example, Huizhou brick carving brick only take the north bank of the Xin'an River, the best quality clay. Made of bricks must also be polished before they can be used. Proofing: The design is top-printed on a brick surface coated with lime water, or a drawing is made directly on the bricks to adjust the basic layout and proportions. Proofing: Use a chisel or carving knife to roughly outline the picture and separate the basic layers. Out of detail: using a variety of tools, shoveling, carving, picking and other plans to combine, carving details.

Brick carving usually retains the original color of the brick, without separate dyeing, but there are a small number of brick carving painted treatment. Therefore the carver needs to carve out multiple layers and use the shadows produced by light to enhance the artistic effect. The Ming and Qing dynasties is the peak of the development of brick carving, craftsmen can be less than an inch in thickness on the square brick can be carved 9 layers. The brick material other than green brick due to material relations, the level of the carving is not as much as the green brick. Brick carvings are mostly used as architectural elements or gates, walls, wall decorations. Because of the green brick in the selection of materials, molding, firing and other processes, the quality requirements are more stringent, so solid and delicate, suitable for carving. Artistically, brick carvings can be viewed from near and far, with a complete effect. In the subject matter, brick carving to the dragon and phoenix, and the two immortals, Liu Hai play golden toad, three suns, Guo Ziyi life, unicorn send son, lion rolling embroidered ball, pine, orchids, bamboo, camellia, chrysanthemums, lotus, carp, fortune, luck and longevity of the text of the people and other auspicious and enjoyable content is the main.

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