Linxia Hui brick carving is where

Linxia Hui brick carving is rich in national characteristics of folk crafts, in the northwest region is quite famous. Local temples and temples, pavilions and residential buildings and walls of the shadow wall, the gate channel, ridge railings, etc., you can often see a lot of exquisite brick art, breathtaking. Linxia Hui brick carving has a long history, the Northern Song Dynasty has been produced, to the Ming Dynasty, the craft development is mature, skilled craftsmen and women, works of colorful, carving exquisite and meticulous, rigorous and elegant composition, with strong imagination and expressive power. 1980, in Linxia County, Nanlong unearthed a brick tomb of the Jin Dynasty, more than 800 years ago, a large number of brick carvings unearthed from the tomb. One of the "dragon figure", "ladies figure", "flying sky", etc., although the carving technology is not as fine as the modern, but the carved figures, animals, floral patterns, etc., has reached a fairly high level. Linxia brick carving (also known as Hezhou brick carving) is a practical art closely integrated with buildings, which originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and in recent times it has absorbed the artistic characteristics of painting and wood carving, making this folk art form more perfect. In Linxia City, some buildings, colorful brick carvings can be seen almost everywhere, and red garden and is located in the city of eight square southeast of the East Hall is the most centralized place to save the art of brick carving in Linxia, many of which are from the masterpiece of masters, showing the unique style of brick carving art in Linxia and superb skills, and therefore has a very good value of the collection.