Who knows what some of the things carved like puppies on top of the pillars in Huizhou ancient architecture are?

Huizhou ancient architecture of brick, wood, stone as raw materials, mainly wooden frame. Huizhou architecture also widely used brick, wood and stone carvings, showing a high level of decorative art.

Brick carvings are mostly inlaid on the door cover, window lintel and wall, and vivid and lifelike figures, insects and fish, flowers and birds and eight treasures, Bogu and geometric patterns are carved on the large bricks, which is extremely rich in decorative effect.

Wood carving in the ancient residential carvings and decorations accounted for the main position, expressed in the moon beams on the head of the line carving pattern, flat plate bucket on the Lotus Pier, screen door partitions, windows and windows under the hanging board, floor arches balustrade and the patio around the lookout for the head and so on. Wide range of content, more figures, landscapes, flowers and plants, birds and animals and eight treasures, Bogu. There are many themes, including traditional operas, folk stories, myths and legends, and scenes of fishing, woodcutting, farming, reading, feasting, drinking, drinking, traveling, music and dancing. There are various techniques, such as line carving, shallow relief carving, high-relief carving, relief carving, round carving and hollow carving. Its performance content and techniques vary according to different parts of the building. These wood carvings are not decorated with paint, but through the high-quality wood color and natural texture, so that the details of the carving more vivid.

What the owner is talking about is a kind of wood carving, is a lion, in ancient China the lion is considered to be a sacred animal, can avoid evil spirits and good luck, to avoid evil spirits and good luck, to show the power and nobility, and a kind of artistic decorative effect.

Stone carvings are mainly expressed in the ancestral halls, temples, pagodas, towers, bridges and residential courtyards, doorways, railings, pools, flower beds, leaky windows, walls, column bases, holding drums and lions, etc. above. Most of the content for the symbol of good luck of the dragon wind, cranes, tigers, lions, elephants, unicorns, auspicious clouds, eight treasures, Bogu and landscapes, people stories, etc., mainly in relief, relief, round carving and other techniques, simple and elegant, thick and elegant.