Stone carving is the oldest art

The history of stone carving can be traced back to the middle of the Paleolithic period one hundred and twenty thousand years ago. The history of stone carving began from the origin of human art. It can be said that none of the all-encompassing art forms of human beings is older than stone carvings, and there is no art form that can be crafted and crafted. It is more popular and unpredictable. Stone carvings have undergone countless years of evolution, and the style of stone carving varies from generation to generation.

Neolithic

The ancestors of the Neolithic Age in China, about 10,000 years ago, have already fired pottery, but only about seven or eight thousand years ago, they began to enter the era of painted pottery. In contrast, the ancient Chinese human invention of the technique of grinding stone tools was used in the late Paleolithic period. The stone ornaments of the cavemen were pierced and pierced, which is a milestone in the history of ancient Chinese carving. Only the invention of grinding technology, stone material will become the engraving material of human beings.

Shang Zhou Stone Carving

Following the Erlitou culture, it is the Erligang culture, representing the remains of the middle of the Shang Dynasty. At this time, the production of stoneware still occupied an important position. At that time, various ceramics and plastic products were popular, but rare and remarkable stone carvings were produced. Until the Yinxu culture period, entering the peak stage of the Chinese Bronze Age, the stone carving art re-emerged with dazzling brilliance. The famous statues of the late merchants, as well as the remains of the meteorites from the tomb of No. 1004, Houjiazhuang, Anyang, are the 376 stone people of the Yinxu Women's Tomb. These characters are meticulously detailed, and the style of the costumes is clearly identifiable. It is a direct expression of the ancient sculptors' social life, thus leaving a model for the descendants to observe.

Qin and Han Stone Carvings

According to the records of the "Three Supplements Yellow Map", there are new statues of Gu Li Meng Mengshi in Xianyang Hengqiao. The Xiushou Emperor's Mausoleum has carved a pair of stone unicorns with a height of one foot and three feet. Regrettably, these relics have long since disappeared. However, we can still see the far-reaching influence of the stone carving art of the Qin Dynasty on later generations from the above signs. First of all, the large-scale human stone sculpture creation is born in the Qin culture and used as an art decoration for architecture and cemetery. Later, this giant stone sculpture of human body and animal shape also developed into the custom of the tomb of the later royal family. In addition, the founding of the Emperor's Mausoleum also "favored the North Mountain Stone 椁", in this way, the stone carving technology applied to chiseling aristocrats and riches have followed suit. It can be seen that the stone carving art of the Qin Dynasty is indeed a short and glorious moment in the history of ancient Chinese sculpture.

Stone carvings of the Sui and Tang Dynasties

If we say that Buddhist art is the art of saving and suffering, then after hundreds of years of vicissitudes of life, during the great reunification of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it began to lose its status as a leader. With the unprecedented prosperity of political economy and culture, Chinese art has re-emerged in the situation of competition, and stone carving art has also formed a new peak of development.

Stone carving in the Song Dynasty

After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, it took effective measures to restore the trauma of the war, and the socio-economic and cultural recovery also formed a unique pattern in the era. On the other hand, the Northern Song Dynasty regime has surrendered to foreign compromises, not thinking about progress, internalizing the people, and stealing security. The negative corruption has affected ideology. The society is full of all kinds of yin and yang five elements of superstition and Confucianism.

The revival of Taoism also curbed the development of Buddhist culture, and the content of literary and artistic reflections of citizens' lives is increasing. Affecting the art of shaping, it also makes it lose the style of the former generation, and tends to be neat, meticulous and feminine.

Ming and Qing stone carving

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the last cycle of Chinese feudal society from turmoil, recovery, prosperity and collapse. The architectural art at that time was still developing along the classical art, thus forming the last in the history of ancient Chinese architectural art. A peak.

The scales of the palaces and tombs of the Ming Dynasty were very ambitious, and the architectural stone carving art of the company also achieved many innovative achievements. The clear anal garden is more than the Ming Dynasty in terms of scale and quality.

It can be said that the history of stone carving is a history of art, a history rich in cultural connotations, and a vivid and real human history.

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