What is Stone carving art

‍‍Stone carving‍‍ art is an important aspect of plastic arts has a long history in China.Stone is the carving of sculpture art is the use of techniques on the stone material to create realistic volume of all kinds of works of art.There are many different kinds of ancient Chinese stone carving ancient artist and craftsman are widely usedThe round, embossed,Valuable.such handiworkReduced toPing carving, line carving and so on a variety of techniques to create many different styles, vivid and colorful stone carving art.

Ancient stone carving time sequence is complete all of them are vivid and exquisite stone carvings momentum forceful especially the han and tang dynasties in ancient China DiaoSuShi occupies a unique place.Library from the subjects and the function of stone carving art collection can be roughly divided into three classes of tomb stone carving, religious stone carvings and other stone carvings.

Stone carving Refers to engraved with a pattern of characters, stone tablet stone manufacture or cliff of rock.In the field of calligraphy, also has after the engraving, originally had no intention of circulating as calligraphy called "stone", is generally not table name, will be in The Three Kingdoms dynasties used to be.And intentionally spread as calligraphy called "sharpening", after the sui and tang dynasties is, more often the KeShu name.- the ancient

The origin of Stone carving

The ancient "bar association," recorded in a whenTibetan kingRed DE ZuZanThe information from Nepal invited craftsmen and engraver.It is said that in chakpori halfway up the hill to the east of zarathustra LuFu grottoes, is for the tubo period sontzen gampo RuYong courts

Built."RuYongFei zarathustra LuFu carving great brahma etc of Buddha, the salt price has risen by more than eighty times, when craftsmen carved to produce a literRock powderOne litre, the reward is to salt, appear on the cliff carved grottoes, etc., for 13 years."

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