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 reliefs 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. Stone mountain carving murals can be said to be a combination of
stone sculpture and murals. By carving on the surface of a stone, they can carve reliefs of varying degrees, with a strong three-dimensional effect.
The relief on the facade of the temple ancestral hall is a kind of relief on the facade, usually referring to the relief installed on the wall of the temple ancestral hall. There are many kinds of carvings, including dragon and phoenix reliefs, kylin giving birth reliefs, five blessing reliefs, flowers, birds, and animals reliefs, twenty-four filial piety reliefs, deer and bamboo belt spring reliefs, pine and crane prolonging the year and so on. 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
stone carving handicrafts. Stone mountain carving is a stone carving handicraft carved on a stone relief 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 reliefs placed in front of the villa, or carved on the walls of the garden square.
Relief is a kind of stone carving, and mural is the art on the wall, that is, the paintings that people directly engrave on the wall. The concept of relief murals belongs to stone carving and also belongs to murals. As a kind of mural, relief art is more three-dimensional. Relief murals are attached to buildings and are an integral part of the built environment.
The murals or historical and cultural figures on the stone sculpture, 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 a relief wall at the entrance of a Buddhist hall or a villa is that the bas-relief conveys the tenderness of light music and the romantic tenderness of lyric poetry with surging lines and multi-angle plane composition.
