The Cultural Influence of Huizhou Three Carvings

The themes of Huizhou Three Sculptures are deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and most of them are plot characters and stories, such as Han myths and allusions, drama stories, folklore and life customs. Animal patterns are mostly rolling and dancing, such as lions, unicorns, horses and deer. There are many patterns and types of flowers and birds, mostly in the form of single flowers and branches and leaves intertwined. Bo Gu diagram is also a common pattern; However, the theme of brick carving in Beijing is mainly natural flowers and plants, or combined with auspicious patterns, and sometimes there are some Bo Gu, but the patterns of character stories are very rare. Brick carvings in Hezhou are restricted by Islamic rules. They are all plants and geometric patterns, and there are no animals or figures.

Huizhou three sculptures are the perfect combination of Han people's interests and literati's interests. They embody the influence of Neo-Confucianism, emphasize the function of social education, and attach importance to the natural integration of emotional experience and moral ethics in aesthetics. These three sculptures fully reflect the characteristics of Han folk art language and the subjective will of folk artists. This highly decorative, naive and naive artistic modeling in Huizhou Three Sculptures combines the excellent traditions of Chinese culture and art in the Central Plains since the Qin and Han Dynasties, and at the same time absorbs the rich nutrition of Huizhou regional culture, forming a unique face of exquisiteness, freshness and elegance, which has become a wonderful flower in the cultural history of China.