What is brick carving?

Brick carving is to use chisels and wooden hammers to drill and carve all kinds of figures, flowers, landscapes, animals, calligraphy and other patterns on water-worn bricks. Brick carving is carved on the green brick figures, landscapes, flowers and other patterns, is a very important art form of ancient architectural carving. It is mainly used to decorate the components and walls of buildings such as temples and pagodas, tombs and houses. Usually also refers to the sculptural artifacts carved from bricks. The main schools of brick carving are Beijing Brick Carving, Tianjin Brick Carving, Shanxi Brick Carving, Huizhou Brick, Suzhou Brick Carving (Suzhou Brick Carving), Guangdong Brick Carving, Linxia Brick Carving (Hezhou Brick Carving), and Tang Language Brick Carving. Most of the brick carvings are used as architectural components or decorations for gates, walls, and walls. Because of the strict quality requirements in the selection of materials, molding, firing and other processes, the bricks are 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, cypress, orchids, bamboo, camellia, chrysanthemum, lotus, carp and other symbolic meaning of good luck and people's favorite content is the main. In the carving technique, there are mainly yin carving (delineation of the outline, as in painting outlines), the pressure of the ground hidden up the shallow relief, deep relief, round carving, openwork carving, reduce the ground flat carving (yin line delineation of the image outline, and in the image of the image of the outline of the empty space outside the chiseled low shoveling flat) and so on (see sculpture handicrafts). Folk brick carving from the practical and ornamental point of view, the image of concise, thick style, do not blindly pursue subtlety and slenderness, in order to maintain the sturdiness of the building components, can withstand the sun and rain. In order to enliven the atmosphere of the building and show their own wealth, most of the exquisite brick carving of residential decoration, thus promoting the development of Tianjin brick carving industry.