Where is the hometown of stone carving art?

China's stone carvings and stone carving owners should be concentrated in Fujian, Hebei, Beijing, Shandong, Zhejiang and other places, and there have also been many art towns famous for stone carving. Among them, Huian in Fujian, Wenling in Zhejiang, Qingtian in Zhejiang and Quyang in Hebei are known as the four towns of stone carving in China.

China's stone carving technology has a long history and many schools, which have produced countless excellent craftsmen and ingenious works for thousands of years. Let's talk about where the hometown of stone carving is.

0 1 stone carving, that is, the art of carving various images and patterns with stones, usually refers to sculpture crafts carved with stones. China's stone carvings and stone carving owners should be concentrated in Fujian, Hebei, Beijing, Shandong, Zhejiang and other places, and there have also been many art towns famous for stone carving. The four major stone carving towns in China are Wenling, Zhejiang, Hui 'an, Fujian, Qingtian, Zhejiang and Quyang, Hebei.

Hui 'an Stone Carving Hui 'an, Fujian, is located in the middle of the southeast coast of Fujian, facing Taiwan Province Province across the sea. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Fujian and one of the main ancestral homes of Han compatriots in Taiwan Province Province. It belongs to Quanzhou with a population of 930,000 and an area of 668 square kilometers. Ranked among the top 100 counties in the national economy, it was awarded the "Hometown of Folk Art (Sculpture) in China" by the Ministry of Culture and the "Stone Carving Capital of China" by the China Arts and Crafts Association. Hui 'an sculpture has a long history. Originated in the Yellow River Basin, the sculpture art combines Central Plains culture, Fujian and Vietnam culture and marine culture, absorbs the essence of the legacy of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, the charm of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the styles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and forms a finely crafted artistic style of the Southern School, which complements the architectural art and becomes a wonderful flower of Chinese excellent traditional culture. Hui 'an stone carving can be divided into round carving, relief carving, heavy carving and shadow carving. Re-carving is mainly used for the decoration of building walls, monuments, memorial archways, cliff stone carvings, plaques and house couplets. With the shape of lines as the main feature, lines are required to be rigid, supple and smooth. Representative works include the large-scale stone carving of "Sunmoon and Sunmoon" in Yuhuatai Memorial Hall in Nanjing. Relief refers to the image floating on the surface of stone, which is used for stone decoration of large commemorative buildings, high-grade luxury houses and houses. Representative works include Hua Biao of Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and Golden Fish Pond of Guanghua Pavilion in the early years of the Republic of China. Now Hui 'an County has the "China Sculpture Art City", which brings together hundreds of carving art enterprises focusing on stone carving.

Stone carving in Wenling, Zhejiang Province has a long history and culture. It first began in the Song Dynasty, and the stone carving technology reached its peak in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. There is a folk song "Huangyan Orange Wild Swallow Pine, Taiping Masonry Tiantai Clock" circulating in Taizhou. At present, there are more than 40 stone carving enterprises in Wenling City, and there are nearly 2,000 stone carving artists, among whom Gao Long stone carving artists account for 80%. The rise of stone carving industry has become another new growth point of Wenling's economic development. In order to build the stone carving market and maintain the prosperity of the industry, Gaolong Township Government of Wenling City has set aside 30 mu of land in Pusan Village, concentrated more than 30 stone carving enterprises in the township, and established Gaolong Stone Carving Garden. The government is responsible for water supply, power supply, roads and other supporting facilities in the park, formulating preferential policies and implementing taxation and electricity consumption, thus making the stone carving industry a pillar industry in the township, accounting for more than half of the industrial output value. Facing the coming new century, Wenling people constantly improve the scientific and technological content of stone carving technology, introduce and apply advanced technology to transform traditional stone carving technology, and begin to adopt a new method combining computer lettering design with manual carving to produce some high-end and beloved stone carving crafts.

Qingtian stone carving in Zhejiang has a long history, which can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties. This point has been verified by the Shang Dynasty cultural relic "Young Beauty" unearthed in Xingan County, Jiangxi Province in the winter of 1989. Since Qingtian Stone Carvings came out in the19th century, Qingtian Stone Carvings have won many gold and silver awards in international fairs and won a high reputation. After the founding of New China, it was chosen by the Party and the state as a national gift to foreign heads of state for many times. 1992, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued four special stamps with stone carvings. 1995 and 1996, Qingtian was named "the hometown of stone carving art in China" and "the hometown of stone carving in China" by the relevant departments of the State Council.

On the 4 km long carving road in Quyang County, Hebei Province, millions of stone lions, stone horses with flowing manes, giraffes and other animals are lifelike, as if they had entered a "wild zoo"; Strolling in the sculpture exhibition square, there are nearly 6,543.8+10,000 stone carvings, jade carvings, landscape stones, stone carvings and other carving products, which seem to be in the "Yulin Stone Sea". Quyang stone carving has begun to take shape in the Western Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Quyang became the birthplace and carving center of the northern white marble statue; Quyang stone carving reached its peak in the Yuan Dynasty. From Yungang Grottoes, Leshan Giant Buddha, Dunhuang Grottoes, Wutai Mountain Buddha Statue, Epang Palace, Forbidden City, Yuanmingyuan and Summer Palace, to Jinshui Bridge, Great Hall of the People, Monument to People's Heroes, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and other buildings in front of Tiananmen Square, the carving art of Quyang people has been left everywhere.