Circular sculpture, also known as three-dimensional sculpture, refers to non compressed three-dimensional sculpture that can be viewed from multiple directions and angles. Sculpture is the overall expression of art on the sculpture. The viewer can see all sides of the object from different angles. It requires the sculptor to carve from the front, back, left, right, top, middle and bottom. The techniques and forms of round sculpture are also varied, including realistic and decorative, concrete and abstract, indoor and outdoor, shelf and large city sculpture, colored and non colored, etc; The contents and themes of the sculptures are also rich and colorful, which can be characters, animals or even still life; The materials are more colorful, including stone, wood, metal, clay, gypsum, textiles, paper, plants, rubber, etc. It is mostly used in fountains, gardens and indoors. Because the round sculpture works are very three-dimensional, vivid, lifelike and vivid, the selection of stone materials is strict. First of all, we should design the shape of the sculpture, and pay special attention to the fact that the sculpture must have a proper proportion with the real object from length to width to thickness.

Among Chinese stone animal carvings, stone lion carvings have a unique style and can be produced in countless quantities. They are widely used for decoration, such as the stone lion carvings on both sides of the gates of imperial palaces, houses, government offices, temple shaped tombs, modern large-scale commercial buildings, hotels and restaurants, and the stone lion decorative carvings on bridges, monuments and workshops. The body shape of stone lions varies in various ways, such as standing, squatting, lying, and so on, with various shapes and often regional differences. The stone lions are carved from a wide range of materials, mostly sandstone, marble and granite. There are many kinds of stone carvings, such as cliff paintings, natural colored stone paintings, inlaid stone murals and stone screen carvings; Stone carvings of famous inkstones such as Duanxiyu, Lu, Taohe, Songhua, Temple of Heaven (or Pangu) and Helan; Paperweights, stationery stone carvings; Tea sets, wine sets, smoke stone sets, lamps and lanterns, table, chair, stool, tea table and other daily necessities, such as craft stone carvings, which are large in number and well made; Inkstone carvings and other unique styles have become a wonderful flower of Chinese stone culture: inlaid stone murals are a new masterpiece of contemporary stone carving art. The colorful stone landscape carvings in the hall on the first floor of the Central Television Tower, completed by Nu Skin, are magnificent and amazing.

According to the materials, rockeries can be divided into earth mountains, stone mountains and earth rock mountains (earth mountains and stone mountains and stone mountains and earth rock mountains); according to the construction method, rockeries can be divided into mountain building (block building earth mountains), mounding mountains (mountains are formed by mounding rocks), mountain chiseling (mountains are formed by digging natural rocks) and plastic mountains (traditionally molded by lime slurry, modern rockeries are molded by cement, brick, steel wire mesh, etc., referred to as plastic stone rockeries in the industry. The rockery can be divided into garden hill, hall hill, lou hill, pavilion hill, shufang hill, pool hill, indoor hill, wall hill and beast hill according to its location and use in the garden. The combination form of rockery is divided into mountain body and water body. Hainan Sculpture Mountains include peaks, ridges, peaks, ridges, valleys, gullies, hillocks, walls, rocks, hills, caves, docks, foothills, platforms, walkways, and plank roads; water bodies include springs, waterfalls, ponds, streams, streams, pools, rocks, and stilts. The landscape should be integrated to complement each other.

Relief is a kind of sculpture. The sculptor carves the image he wants to shape on a flat plate, making it separate from the plane of the original material. Relief is the product of the combination of sculpture and painting. It deals with objects in a compressed way, and displays three-dimensional space by perspective and other factors. It is only for one side or two sides to see. The reliefs are usually attached to another plane, so they are used more in architecture and can be seen on utensils and implements. Due to its compression characteristics, it occupies less space, so it is suitable for decoration in a variety of environments. In recent years, it has played an increasingly important role in urban beautification. The relief is as rich and colorful as the round sculpture in content, form and material. The materials of relief include stone, wood, ivory and metal. The relief is a semi vertical sculpture whose image shape protrudes from the stone surface (as opposed to the relief). It can be divided into light relief and high relief according to the depth of stone removal in image modeling. The bas reliefs are single level statues with relatively simple contents; The high relief is a multi-level statue with complicated contents. The carving technique and expression style of relief are basically the same as those of round sculpture. Many ancient and modern large-scale memorial buildings, high-end mansions and private houses are equipped with such decorations. Their main works are wall blocks, flower windows, dragon columns (early) and column bases.

The openwork carving technique is an original carving technique in Putian. There are still many "gold inlaid openwork lanterns" and "embossed flower windows" in the Palace Museum in Beijing, which all support the traditional craft charm of Putian wood carving. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Putian wood carvings were mostly made of longan wood, which was rich in local production. Nanjing Colored sculpture Carved into various military generals, women or gods, antiques, supplemented by cost performance Colored sculpture The painting with old lacquer makes the work more deep in color. Zhu Bangshou, Huang Dangui, Chen Xiange and other famous painters, together with Liu Ronglin, formed a round sculpture character style characterized by Pu style military generals. So far, many figures and architectural decoration wood carvings have been left for future generations in Guandi Temple, Yuanxia Village, Jiangkou Town, Jiufeng Village, Wutang Town and other old folk houses, These masterpieces, which combine round, transparent and relief carvings, are treasures of Putian wood carving art.

Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, which is often called "folk craft" in our country. Wood carving can be divided into three categories: three-dimensional round carving, root carving and relief carving. Wood carving is a kind of work separated from carpentry, which is classified as "fine carpentry" in our country. Folk art varieties classified by carving materials. Generally, the tree species with fine and tough texture and not easy to deform are selected, such as nanmu, red sandalwood, camphor wood, cypress, ginkgo, agarwood, mahogany, longan, etc. The tree root carving art in natural form is called "tree root carving". Wood carving has round carving, relief carving, engraving or several techniques. Some are also painted to protect wood and beautify it. Generally speaking, tools for wood carving creation, such as saws, wood files, chisels, carving knives, flat shovels, axes, wood drills, wood hammers, planes, etc., can be used for root carving creation. In addition, you also need basic tools such as scissors (scissors for pruning), knives, brushes, sandpaper (cloth), coarse and fine cloth, cotton yarn, rope, etc. During special processing, such as fire roasting, steaming, and insect prevention, some tools are also needed, which can be used in general families instead of other tools.