Representative works of stone carvings commemorating the Mausoleum of the Western Han Dynasty are

Huo qubing's tomb sculpture belongs to mausoleum sculpture. They are huge, built on mountains and placed in the natural environment. Considering the combination of sculpture and environment, they can also be said to be the earliest large-scale environmental sculptures in China.

19 14 Huo qubing's tomb is the most outstanding sculpture in the Han Dynasty. At the same time, their modelling technique and majestic momentum are unique in the whole sculpture history of China.

Huoqubing Tomb Stone Carvings are a group of monumental large stone carvings, which were built in Xingping County, Shaanxi Province in 1 17 BC. According to Records of the Historian, Huo Qubing took part in the war against Xiongnu at the age of 65,438+08, and won six attacks on Xiongnu. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a mansion for him because of his repeated meritorious deeds. He once said that the famous saying "Xiongnu is not extinct, and there is no place to live".

The general died of illness at the age of 24. Not far east of Maoling, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deliberately chose Huo Qubing's tomb site, built a tomb similar to Qilian Mountain, and asked China craftsmen to carve giant stone statues and beasts for him in front of and on the tomb, in recognition of his exploits, which also implied that Huo Qubing was invincible in Qilian Mountain before his death, which was a great shock to Xiongnu.

There are 14 stone carvings in Huo qubing's tomb, including stepping on Xiongnu, lying horse, prancing horse, crouching tiger, lying elephant, Shi Wa, Shiyu II, savage, beast eating sheep, lying cow, man and bear, wild boar, lying toad and so on. There are two other inscriptions.

Stone carving, vertical stone, grave and vegetation together constitute an artistic comprehensive environment. This unique design has both natural background, artificial carving, scattered works and humanized natural theme, thus forming a complete organic group. The types and arrangement of stone carvings in front of Huo Qubing's tomb are different from those in previous dynasties and later generations. The stone carving makes full use of the natural shape of the rock, conforms to the shape of the rock, is slightly carved, lifelike, various, Gu Zhuo image, concise techniques and rich styles.

These stone carvings combine line carving, round carving and relief. According to the original shape and characteristics of the stone, they conform to the natural trend, and highlight the expression and movement of the object with the romantic freehand brushwork of fine carving in key parts and micro-carving in other parts. Mausoleum stone carving art treasures, rough and simple style, magnificent momentum. These stone carvings constitute an internally related whole from form to content, among which "Treading Xiongnu" is the theme statue, and the rest are combined with the environment symbolized by the tombs to comprehensively contrast this theme.