When we walk into every temple, we can always see various stone mountain carving patterns in the temple. In places like temples, the use of stone mountain carving seems to be very common, such as temple walls, temple door facades, temple entrance steps, Buddha statue bases, etc. can be seen. Temple architecture always likes to carve something related to temple culture in this form.
The stone carvings of different patterns also add a beautiful atmosphere to the whole temple, which is why today's temple buildings like to use stone mountain carving as the decoration of temple ancestral halls. It can be said that it is a combination of stone carvings and murals. By carving on the surface of a stone, they can carve stone carvings of varying degrees, with a strong three-dimensional effect.
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stone carving on the facade of the temple ancestral hall is a kind of stone carving on the facade, usually referring to the stone carving installed on the wall of the temple ancestral hall. There are many kinds of carvings, including dragon and phoenix stone carvings, unicorn stone carvings, stone carvings of five blessings, stone carvings of flowers, birds and animals, stone carvings of twenty-four filial piety, stone carvings of deer and bamboo with spring, stone carvings of pine and crane prolonging the year, etc. Each pattern has its own meaning. So what kind of place we want to put it, what kind of meaning we need, all need refined design.
Temple stone mountain carving is an art of handicraft, which is different from traditional ones. Stone mountain carving is a stone carving handicraft carved on a stone carving board. Its beauty brings people not only visual but also tactile, which is a double enjoyment. In modern garden squares or villas, you can always see some large and small stone carvings placed in front of the villa, or carved on the walls of the garden square.
Stone carving is a kind of sculpture, and mural is the art on the wall, that is, the paintings that people directly engrave on the wall. The concept of stone carving murals belongs to sculpture as well as murals. As a kind of mural, stone carving art is more three-dimensional. Stone murals are attached to buildings and are an integral part of the built environment.
The murals or historical and cultural figures on the stone carvings, or today's modern culture, are murals in the aspects of propagating and understanding stories, science popularization, moral politics, loyalty and filial piety, etc. The implication of placing stone carving walls at the entrance of Buddhist halls or villas, shallow stone carvings convey the tenderness of light music and the romantic tenderness of lyric poetry with surging lines and multi-angle plane composition.
