Landscape giant stone carving animals

In this kind of architectural stone carvings, most of them are carved on stone columns and foundation columns, and dragon carvings are the most distinctive, such as stone carving dragon columns, the Forbidden City stone dragon royal road, etc., which are usually carved with marble. The remaining stone carvings of Dashuifa and He Xianren Chenglu on the Yuanmingyuan site in Beijing.

How much do you know about stone carving?

Stone carving refers to the art of creating visible and touchable stone art of art with a certain space by using various kinds of carved and engraved stones to reflect social life and express the artist's aesthetic feelings, emotions and ideals.

Stone carvings, stone carvings and other stone crafts are generally divided into round carvings, reliefs, sunken carvings, wall carvings, hollowed out carvings (openwork carvings), line carvings, shadow carvings, micro carvings, intaglio carvings, and sun carvings according to different production methods. Each has its own characteristics and unique styles. Common stones include granite, marble, bluestone, sandstone, etc. Stone is hard and weathering resistant, and is the main material of large-scale memorial sculpture.

The history of stone carving begins with the origin of human art. It can be said that there is no art form that is more ancient than stone carving, and there is no art form that is more popular and lasting.