The Artistic Craft of Longchang Paifang Group

Longchang bluestone is sandstone with fine texture, high hardness, acid and alkali resistance, weathering resistance, no radiation and environmental protection ... Excellent characteristics, which won long-term applause for Longchang bluestone. Longchang Qingshi has always been famous. Generations of Longchang sons and daughters, or skillfully use nature to write on bluestone or seal script, or express their feelings, or carve bluestone tools with great skill. Unique skills and techniques endow bluestone with fresh life.

From the perspective of carving techniques, it skillfully uses high relief, shallow relief, through carving, round carving, intaglio carving and other techniques. Judging from the content of the sculpture, the memorial arch sculpture includes plants, animals, landscapes, beasts, patterns, calligraphy and so on. Fully demonstrated the rich, complete and harmonious artistic beauty. Art comes from life. If you want to marvel at the Longkeng archway, you might as well say that it gives you an interesting feeling.

The stone drum on the stone pillar seems to be rumbling, and there seems to be something in the drum. Pavilions and pavilions are full of life dramas that have been familiar for thousands of years, and they are ready to come out. Or nepotism, Feng Ling fluttering, or eye-catching, or lion dancing.

The relief "Birthday Map" on the beam vividly depicts all kinds of life. The appearance of officialdom and flattery are vividly interpreted. In the sculpture of the archway, there are even warriors wearing helmets and drawing bows according to arrows; Or carved The Journey to the West or The West Chamber, with rich and colorful contents. On the theme background, cigarettes curl, flowers sway, pavilions float, and floating clouds brush tiles. It is really a combination of rigidity and softness, delicate and vivid. Longchang Paifang Group mostly belongs to the typical works in the heyday of Qing Dynasty, which are gathered in Naner Street and Beier Street in the county respectively. The layout is reasonable and set off each other, giving people a symmetrical aesthetic feeling. Paifang Group is also symmetrical in types, with Xiao Jie Square in South Street and Jie Zhen Square in North Street. There is a filial piety square in South Street and a filial piety square in North Street. There is a palace square in South Street and a Zhengdefang in North Street ... This symmetry is not a coincidence, but an artificial arrangement.

The inscription of couplets on Longchang memorial archway seems to tell us one sad story after another, explain one little-known history after another, and show the sadness and heaviness of the past times. The memorial archway group also implies the bitter course of national psychological expansion. The architectural artistic features of Longchang Paifang Group are also comprehensive, which is the product of the combination of China traditional culture and Buddhist culture.

The archway is mostly in the form of four-column, three-door, three-eave and five-drop archway with bluestone imitation wood structure, generally, it is14m high and 9m wide. There are different names and different contents, such as filial piety, chastity, filial piety, filial piety, merit, virtue, gratitude and so on. Its dignified and exquisite modeling, vivid and exquisite layout and exquisite carving have high appreciation value. Longchang Stone Archway Group embodies the essence of China traditional architectural technology. It is a masterpiece of Ming and Qing architecture that integrates the essence of philosophy, history, mathematics, culture, mechanics, architecture, culture and art, and has extremely high and precious scientific value of history, art and cultural relics. Longchang Ancient Paifang Group is now a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Longchang is rich in bluestone resources and rich in bluestone culture. The bluestone people in Longchang naturally endowed bluestone with brand-new life and maintained its unique charm. Carve bluestone with more innovative's thinking and more mature skills, and outline a vivid bluestone treasure map! Millennium ancient post road, Longchang ancient archway, Genting ancient castle ... These ancient streets and cultural relics that retain the memory of bluestone undoubtedly record the glory that Longchang bluestone brought to Longchang.

Bashu ancient post road, a thousand years of love. Slate roads paved with bluestone slabs run through the north and south of the county. It welcomed many imperial officials riding horses, and also raised many road flyovers in rags. The bluestone flagstone road is Longchang's indelible and brilliant memory forever. Three-dimensional history books and ancient archways are famous at home and abroad. The ancient archway is located in Longchang. Apart from the city's long history as a traffic artery, bluestone is more important. Longchang bluestone provided important raw materials for the archway. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the archway stands tall and the quality of bluestone can be seen.

A century-old Genting ancient village is a century-old feudal family. At that time, the total length of the city wall surrounded by bluestone was1640m, of which 4.2m was wide and 7m was high. The story in the city wall was not known until a hundred years later, and the solid bluestone always guarded the rise and fall of the Guo family. Whether it is Fan's flowing calligraphy or figure carving with both form and spirit, their charm can only be revealed on the bluestone in Longchang; Whether it is a rare three-dimensional archway group in China, a century-old castle in Genting ancient village, or even a small and exquisite stone bench, only Longchang bluestone gives these beating lives ... Maybe the arch is forever.

Charm Longchang, characteristic Longchang, stone incense everywhere. Bluestone architecture is natural, bluestone decoration is magnificent and beautiful, and bluestone carvings are exported to other places. Bluestone surrounded the city walls, built the Liang Shi, and built the stone bridge! Because of bluestone, the dragon farm is simple and solemn; Because of the bluestone, the Dragon Field is meaningful and vivid. Houses, promenades and rain alleys; Shishi, Shiqiao, Shifang ... The ancient archway in Longchang has become obsolete after hundreds of years of vicissitudes and wind and rain erosion. Fortunately, since it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit, the county government has stepped up its protection efforts and is currently in the stage of reconstruction of Paifang Old Street. Soon, the old street will take on a new look, welcoming tourists from all over the country and even from all over the world with new faces.