My system is not decent

Chapter 1865 Jinshi is immortal, Zhenshi is eternal

The knife, from the body of the stone, carves one body after another.

Each body is different from the previous one;
Every body is full of solemn imagination;
Every body is also lifelike.

If one moment after another is extracted from these imaginary bodies, it is really hard to imagine what kind of transformation it is from one moment to that moment.

When the enthusiasm is solidified, when the painstaking efforts are exhausted, the hard stones become exquisite stone carvings, and the stones are no longer stones.

Putting down the soil and becoming a Buddha immediately has more extraordinary vitality than ordinary life.

The stone has a soul, and it can last forever without leaving home.

The third season of "National Treasure" described the ancient Chinese stone carvings, saying: "These seemingly cold stones have deposited the most important cultural blood in the hearts of Chinese people!"

It is true that cold and hard stones can better express people's softest hearts and warmest emotions.

Gold and stone are immortal, and Zhenshi is eternal.

The hard texture of stone determines that the ancients often expressed the most important things in stone carvings.

Remembrance of ancestors, entrustment to younger generations, praise of great men, or belief in religion, etc.

Our culture, aesthetics, and spiritual strength are also continuously passed on and carried forward, making them even more precious.

But in this seemingly inconspicuous stone carving factory, Chen Wenzhe saw too many precious stone carvings.

Walking in this factory, he didn't see many people. Instead, he seemed to be walking in a museum, or a forest of steles?
"Is this a stone statue imitated from the Han and Tang Stone Carving Museum in Xi'an?"

Xishan Han and Tang Stone Carving Museum is a national third-level museum with the theme of stone carving art.

With the mission of collection protection, display, research and education, there are currently more than 400 pieces of various stone carvings.

The cultural relics in this museum have a long history, exquisite shapes and complex carving techniques.

There are round carvings, relief carvings, openwork carvings, line carvings, etc., which have extremely high historical value and artistic value, and play a pivotal role in ancient Chinese stone carving art.

Among them are many classics, such as the stone portrait of Ma Sanmin, the remnants of the stele of the Thousand Buddhas, and the inkstone with animal feet. These are all stone carvings and stone carvings of the Han Dynasty.

Stone carvings occupy an important position in my country's historical and cultural heritage.

Because stone is durable and easy to obtain materials, it has become one of the main materials for carving.

Ancient craftsmen combined practical functions with artistry, and widely used various techniques such as round carving, relief carving, flat carving, openwork carving, and line carving.

Create a wide variety of stone carving works with different styles, endowing cold stone with eternal artistic life.

These stone carvings are scattered on the vast land of the motherland, and can be seen in palaces, mausoleums, grottoes, bridges, courtyards, dwellings, etc.

The stone carvings collected by the Xishan Han and Tang Stone Carving Museum can be roughly divided into three categories: mausoleum stone carvings, Buddhist stone carvings, and other stone carvings.

Like the stone statue of a military officer in the Tang Dynasty, this is a tomb stone carving. According to historical records, it began in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

"Fengshi's Experience" records: "Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been stone unicorns, stone evil spirits, stone si, and stone horses in the emperor's mausoleum. There are stone figures, stone tigers, and stone pillars in the tombs of human ministers, such as Yiwei in life."

However, according to archaeological findings, no stone carvings have been seen in front of the tombs of the Qin Dynasty. The earliest stone carvings found so far are the tomb of Huo Qubing, Maoling, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in Xingping, Western Shaanxi.

Huo Qubing once conquered the Xiongnu, made outstanding achievements, and was buried with Maoling after his death.

Its seal is built in the shape of Qilian Mountain, and there are many stone carvings of monsters such as horses, cows, tigers, fish, and elephants placed on the seal.

The most famous one is "Horse Stepping on the Huns", which is commemorative.

Most of the other stone carvings are also carved on natural stone materials according to the shape and situation. The shapes are simple and majestic, but they are not regulated.

In addition, there is the largest number of lions and tigers. At this time, what Chen Wenzhe saw was a typical Tang Dynasty stone lion.

With the opening of the Silk Road, lions from West Asia were introduced into my country.

Stone beasts based on lions and tigers became ceremonial tomb objects and were widely placed in front of mausoleums in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the north-central part of my country, it is found from west to east and other places, and it is called "exorcism", but there are few inscriptions.

But that’s not to say there aren’t any. For example, there are inscriptions on a pair of stone beasts in front of Zongzi’s tomb in Nanyang, Henan.

According to Li Xian's note in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty Lingdi Ji", "The tomb of Zongzi of the Later Han Dynasty is in the Anyang boundary of Zhengzhou. In front of the tomb, there are two stone beasts engraved on their shoulders. One day will be a blessing, and the other day will ward off evil spirits."

The stone beast is now in the Nanyang Han Painting Museum, but the word "dispelling evil spirits" has been blurred.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, stone lions have been used in front of mausoleums, with distinct characteristics of the times.

In addition to these tomb murals and stone carvings like stone statues, the tomb gates, especially the stone gates with portraits, are even more precious.

The decorative stone carvings of underground tomb buildings, the most representative ones are portrait stones.

According to the needs of the architectural structure of the tomb, various images are carved on the stone slabs with a knife instead of a pen. They are rich in content and have a wide range of subjects. They are called "picture scrolls on stones".

The contents of the stone reliefs of the Han Dynasty in Xi'an are mostly myths and legends, rare birds and animals, traveling by horses and chariots, farming and hunting, etc.

The engravings are concise, the lines are smooth, and some are supplemented by colored paintings, which are full of the roughness and wildness of the Loess Plateau, and have distinct local characteristics.

Among the imitations here, the stone portrait of "Pu Chieftain's Title Ringing the Tomb Gate of the Four Gods" is paved with five stones, and the outline is carved by subtracting the ground, and then the details are expressed by line carving, and finally the color is applied.

The lintel is engraved with pictures of hunting in clouds and traveling by horses and horses.

The door frame is engraved with cursive patterns, and there are basalts underneath.

There are two door leaves, the upper part is a flying red bird, the middle part is a paving ring, and the lower part is a leaping green dragon and white tiger. The images are vivid, and there are still colored paintings, which have a typical stone style of Han Dynasty in northern Shaanxi.

If these are classics, then there must be horses in the classics of the Tang Dynasty, and if there are horses, pommel horses are indispensable.

The stone carvings of mausoleums in the Tang Dynasty are well regulated.

The stone carvings in front of the eighteen imperial mausoleums of the Tang Dynasty are numerous and magnificent.

Including civil servants, generals, pommel horses, winged horses, lions, tigers, etc., it is magnificent and has the reputation of "natural stone carving art museum".

The stone pommel horse and the horseman in the collection of the Tang Dynasty are relatively large.

The lower part of the horse's belly is hollowed out, and the four legs, feet and seat are incomplete.

The horse is in a standing position, with the forehead looking forward with ease.

The horse's head is finely carved, with wide-open eyes, slightly open nostrils, neatly cut mane, headbands and reins.

The saddle is worn on the horse's back, and the saddle bag hangs from the bottom.

The horse-leader stands in the image of a barbarian, with deep eyes and high nose, fan-shaped beard and beard, with his right hand bent in front of his chest as if leading a horse, and his left hand on his abdomen, with a calm and dignified look.

There are usually five pairs of stone horses placed in the Sima Shinto in the south of the emperor's mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty, but most of them were seriously damaged.

This treasure of the stone pommel horse and the horseman has been buried underground for thousands of years, so it is well preserved, and the details are clearly visible.

So the imitations here are relatively complete and exquisite.

(End of this chapter)