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Chapter 1880 The Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, the Best in Ancient and Modern Times

The stone statues of the Tang Dynasty are almost the same size as real people, making people feel that they are communicating with the Buddha in person and are close to others.

There are also Tianlongshan Grottoes and Bingling Temple Grottoes in Tang Dynasty.

The statues are plump and moving, graceful and graceful, showing the secular atmosphere of Buddhist art in the Tang Dynasty.

There are few painted sculptures in plain Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty. There are painted sculptures in Foguang Temple in Nanshan Temple in Wutai Mountain, which are almost the same style as the painted sculptures in Tang Dynasty in Dunhuang.

The small Buddha statues are still mainly made of stone and bronze, and the artistic style is consistent with that of the grotto statues. They all show the graceful and magnanimous style of the Tang Dynasty, and the stone carving art level is very high.

The mausoleum sculptures of the Tang Dynasty are still divided into two categories: the statues in front of the mausoleum and the small Tao Yong inside the tomb.

The large statues in front of the mausoleum are mainly distributed near the mausoleums of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty in the Guanzhong area of ​​Xi'an.

On both sides of the Shinto in front of the mausoleum, there are tall stone men and stone horses corresponding to each other, which are magnificent.

Among them, the most influential ones are: Xianling stone carving, Zhaoling stone carving, Qianling stone carving, Shunling stone carving and so on.

The sculptures of the Tang Dynasty integrated Chinese and foreign, integrated the characteristics of the north and the south, reached the peak of maturity, and set a glorious example for the sculpture art of later generations.

After the Tang Dynasty, another glorious era was the architectural stone carvings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the last cycle of my country's feudal society going from turmoil, recovery, prosperity to collapse.

The architectural art at that time was still developing along the tradition of classical art analysis.

Thus forming the last peak in the history of ancient Chinese architectural art.

The palaces and mausoleums of the Ming Dynasty were very large in scale.

Fuli's architectural stone carving art has also made many innovative achievements.

The beautiful palace gardens even surpassed those of the Ming Dynasty in terms of scale and quality.

Stone-carved Huabiao has existed since ancient times, but the white stone Huabiao of Tianyi (An) Gate in Ming Dynasty has its own characteristics of the times and artistic achievements.

It uses a variety of carving techniques to create unprecedented architectural decoration.

The dragon pattern on the main body of the Huabiao column is carved in shallow relief under the pressure of the ground, drawing a winding and upward dragon shape.

There are cloud pattern decorations in between, making the Huabiao magnificent and solemn.

The stigma is covered with colorful openwork clouds, and the lotus petal stone plate is decorated with round carved lions.

There is also a gorgeous octagonal seat under it, surrounded by exquisitely carved dragon-pattern railings and lion-carved pillars.

Looking at the overall shape of Huabiao, it is a sublimation on the basis of traditional forms.

At the same time, we have also seen that Huabiao is essentially a perfect symbol of the combination of Chinese and Western cultures.

In fact, the bases, balustrades, aisles, atriums, and stone bridges of the main hall of the Forbidden City are organic combinations of various stone carving art forms.

These stone carvings were ordered by Qianlong in the 25th year, after the original Ming Dynasty decorations were chiseled away and re-carved.

However, from the existing decorative patterns on the stone railings, it can still be seen that the stone carvings of the Imperial Palace in the Ming and Qing Dynasties still inherited the decorative patterns and techniques since the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

Looking at the imperial palace gardens of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it can be said that the architectural stone carvings were used extensively to an extent that cannot be added.

They eloquently reflect the fact that the best and greatest buildings in the world are inseparable from decorative stone components.

Among the royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty, the Old Summer Palace is a great garden known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".

The sad thing is that it was burned down in 1860, but today, from the remains of stone carvings in the ruins of the garden, we can still see some features of this unrivaled garden architecture art.

There are too many examples of stone carvings being widely used in Ming and Qing architecture.

Like the well-known Temple of Heaven, it was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties offered sacrifices to heaven and prayed for a good harvest.

The pedestal, white stone round altar and stone components under the main building are all carved with exquisite decorations.

They are all created under the control of the imperial court to meet the various needs of feudal rule and luxurious life.

This is also very prominently reflected in the mausoleum architecture.

Today, there are a large number of stone carvings of Ming and Qing mausoleums preserved in the imperial tombs in Fengyang, Jinling, Ming Tombs in Shendu, Qingdong Tombs in Beihe Zunhua, and Qingxi Tombs in Yixian County.

These stone carvings pay attention to lifelike shapes, round and delicate techniques, and smooth and free patterns.

Its traditional skills began in the Han Dynasty, matured in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and became popular in the Tang Dynasty.

There are mainly garden sculptures, architectural sculptures, statues, stone carvings and handicrafts, with hundreds of varieties.

This time Chen Wenzhe really learned a lot. What he saw here was not only the miniature scenery and landscape, but even the miniature and dismantled Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven.

See what's in here?Marble mantelpieces, figure sculptures, reliefs, etc.

Others include abstract sculptures, fountains, flower pots, Roman columns, railings, pavilions, busts, door covers, stone benches, bathtubs, animal carvings, tombstones, antique sculptures, etc.

From these things, it can be easily seen that stone carvings have a long history.

It pays attention to lifelike shape, round and delicate technique, smooth and free pattern.

Carving products mainly include figures, animals, fireplaces, flowerpots, railings, fountains, reliefs, dragon columns in the Dragon Pavilion, Qionglou Yuge, birds and animals, various fine carvings and so on.

It is rich in the charm of ancient art, but also has an elegant and lively modern art style. It enjoys the reputation of "ingenious workmanship" and "shocking" at home and abroad.

Stone carving is a collection of creativity, design and production of various works of art.

Simply put, it is a work carved with stone, and its essence is stone.

Natural stone is also hard to come by.

Solid and weather resistant before it can be used.

Therefore, in Lingnan architecture, in addition to stone towers, stone bridges, stone squares, stone pavilions, and stone tombs, they are more widely used in building components and decorations.

It can be roughly divided into three categories, one is the door frame, slabs, drum-holding stones, steps, column foundations, beams, well circles, etc., which are used as building components;

The second is stone tablets, stone lions, stone watches, and stone statues as appendages to buildings;

The third is as furnishings in buildings, such as stone incense burners, stone five offerings and so on.

Even now, natural stone is now widely used by people, taking nature as the beauty, for school gates, garden green belts, gates of government agencies and so on.

It can be said that stone has now become the cornerstone of stone carving art, but not the cornerstone of architecture.

However, there is no unified national standard for many types of stone carvings in modern times, and it is difficult to accurately classify them.

However, according to the development in recent years, combined with traditional habits, stone carving products can be classified.

In this stone carving factory, this kind of classification is very clear.

For example, according to the use, it can be divided into ornamental, hanging and collection of stone craft ornaments and stone carvings.

The stone carving works to watch must be represented by grottoes and cliff stone carvings.

One of the major categories is cemetery stone carvings, and then there are practical stone carvings for palaces, mansions and gardens, as well as stone carvings for temples, shrines, and altars.

There are also architectural ones, but now there are fewer, such as stone bridge stone carvings.

Then there are the stone carvings of stone gates and archways, and the more complicated ones are the stone carvings of tower buildings.

(End of this chapter)