Courtyard Stone Carving Is A Way Of Life

There are many well-known gardens in Chinese history, all of which accumulate the essence of past cultures. From architectural layout to stone carvings and wood carvings, the elegant life and aesthetic taste of the garden owner are presented one by one. The garden is also a kind of culture, which is a humanistic landscape for nature and a way of life for people. Enjoying garden stone sculptures is a way of life and an attitude to life. For Tibetan garden stone sculptures, ordinary families, as long as they have a larger living room or balcony, can place admiring stones. In this way, it can show the owner's taste in life and artistic taste. How wonderful it is to cultivate sentiment. The interaction between the stone carving and the garden space sublimates the habitat into a painting and artistic conception. The charm of stone carving culture in the garden is "enriched with the scenery and expresses the aspirations".

There are many types of stone carving materials, including Shoushan stone, Taihu stone, marble, white marble, Lingbi stone, Qingtian stone, Changhua stone, Hetian stone, etc. The material is not the most critical factor in judging stone carvings. The most important thing is to judge the artistry of stone carving tools. . The stone carving art of each era has its overall style; each specific stone carving work also has its own style. The style of stone carving varies from time to time. The stone carvings of the Ming Dynasty are the same as calligraphy and other works of art, and their main style is simplicity. In fact, this style inherited the legacy of the Song Dynasty and even the Tang Dynasty. Based on this, the artistic style of Tang and Song stone carvings is also concise and clear, which also makes it difficult to distinguish the age difference between Song and Ming stone carvings. In the Qing Dynasty, the art of stone carving became complicated and delicate, focusing on small sections, but it was also a kind of beauty, and it was also loved by most collectors.

Everyone can choose stone sculptures according to their cultural literacy and artistic pursuit. Gardens exist as an architectural art form. In the development process from imitating natural landscapes to literati landscapes, they entered a new aesthetic realm from the Song Dynasty and matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At this time, Europe is building a large number of urban blocks to show the prosperity of the city, while China is keen on the construction of single-door courtyards and gardens that embrace the landscape. Jiangnan and Beijing have formed a series of gardens full of bookish and elegant artistic style, leaving behind many immortal masterpieces.