Stone Construction

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With the development of primitive human aesthetic concepts and the improvement of stone processing technology, people began to carve patterns on stone tools, making them both practical and beautiful artworks. The stone carvings of this period have refined knife techniques, simple shapes, and an ancient and simple artistic style. From the visible historical materials and physical objects, it can be seen that during the Yin and Shang dynasties, there was already a relatively mature ramming technique that allowed for the construction of large-scale palaces and tombs, providing an opportunity for the use of stone carvings in future architecture. During the Qin and Han dynasties, large stone carvings appeared in front of tombs. These large stone carvings have vivid shapes, concise knife techniques, powerful and dynamic spirit.

Various stone carvings with architectural decoration as their main function. At least it can be traced back to the Han Dynasty and is popular throughout the province. Such as stone memorial archway, stone gate, stone shadow wall (also called screen wall), stone column, pillar stone, architectural decoration carving, stone bridge, etc.

Stone carving architecture also has a long history, which can be traced back to the stone shed architecture in the prehistoric Dongyi region. In addition, sturdy and aesthetically pleasing rammed civil engineering structures cannot be separated from stone components and stone carvings for decoration. Therefore, the meaning of architectural stone carvings we refer to here is very broad and only has relative classification significance. It includes various architectural stone carvings and decorative components, as well as various decorative stone carvings and commemorative objects attached to buildings.

In terms of the stone carving components of the architecture, large wooden palace buildings since the Tang Dynasty have widely used a combination of brick and stone foundations, such as step stones, step surfaces, and pendant stones, which are all decorative components with carved patterns. The stone railings, watchtowers, and dragon heads have been seen in the famous site of the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace in Xi'an during the Tang Dynasty.

The various components of architectural stone carvings not only have distinct characteristics of the times, but they are also like beautiful scrolls unfolding, showcasing colorful artistic styles and styles from different perspectives. Taking stone carving decorative patterns as an example, most of them are similar to popular craft decorative patterns of the same era. For example, the patterns in Han Dynasty stone reliefs include rope patterns, tooth patterns, S patterns, continuous arc patterns, rolling grass patterns, lotus patterns, dragon patterns, and dragon patterns.

As various components of architectural stone carvings, their rich and colorful types and styles have their own laws of evolution and development. Therefore, architectural stone carvings have always been valued by scholars of archaeology, art history, and architectural history, and specialized research on them has become a fundamental research work and prerequisite for the development of various disciplines. However, this focus has been ignored by the epigraphy of previous dynasties, and only the stratigraphic and typological methods of archaeology have been used to systematically organize the rich stone carvings art of ancient China.