Artificial landscape rockery is a kind of mountain built with soil, stone and other materials for the purpose of landscaping in gardens. The rockery has various landscaping functions, such as forming the main landscape or terrain skeleton of the garden, dividing and organizing the garden space, arranging the courtyard, revetment, slope protection, retaining soil, and setting natural flower beds. It can also be combined with garden buildings, garden roads, sites and garden plants to form a scene full of changes, so as to reduce the artificial atmosphere, add natural interest, and integrate garden buildings into the landscape environment. Therefore, rockery has become one of the characteristics of Chinese natural landscape garden. The natural landscape is the artistic source and basis of rockery creation. Although the real mountain is good, it is rare to visit it often. The front rockery is arranged near the house. As a work of art, it is more general and refined than the real mountain. It can embody people's thoughts and feelings, and make it have the charm of "mountains are beautiful, rocks are beautiful". Artificial rockery must also try not to reveal artificial traces, making it difficult to distinguish the true from the false. The rockery, which comes down in one continuous line with the traditional Chinese landscape painting, is important because it seems true but not true. Although it is false, it is still true, which is thought-provoking.
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.
The types of stone inscription monuments include monuments, memorial monuments, merit monuments, temple monuments, Dianzi monuments, mausoleum monuments, etc. Except for a few wordless steles, they are generally literal steles. Usually, characters are carved on the body of the stele, and some are accompanied by carved patterns. The pedestal and cover of the stele are mostly carved with decorations, birds, animals, flowers, and mascots. The cover of the stele of the imperial family is also carved with dragons and phoenixes. Marble is the most commonly used stone for making the stele, and sandstone and granite are also commonly used. Some of the steles are huge, and some of them become a group of steles. Qingyuan Sculpture Design Stone books are written with stone instead of paper, and carved instead of pen, which is very ingenious. There are many famous works of stone tablet processing and stone calligraphy carving. For example, "Xi'an Forest of Steles" includes more than 3000 historical steles from Han Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. It is the largest collection of stone books in China. Together with the "Forest of Steles in Hanlin" under construction in Kaifeng, it can be said that it is a sea of steles, and it is a collection of calligraphies of regular script, line, grass, seal script, clerical script and Wei style by famous calligraphers of all ages. In addition to large carvings such as stone tablets and cliff carvings, there are other stone carvings, such as elegiac scrolls in imperial tombs and modern fine carved small stone carvings, such as more than 100 Han Dynasty carvings excavated in the tomb of the prince of the Tang Dynasty Sculpture Design manufactor White jade mourning volume, six stone books of "Thirty six Strategies" carved with slate in modern Chengdu, a total of 26 pages and 1278 words, bound with eyeliner, each page is 2.2.6mm, which can be read.
Bonsai sculpture is an ingenious combination of plant cultivation technology and garden art. It is an organic unity of landscape, basin and several frames. It is mainly composed of trees and shrubs, with rocks, people, buildings, etc. as the background, to show the beautiful scenery of giant trees in the wilderness, lush forests or ancient trees with thousands of years. There are evergreen pines and cypresses, such as five needle pine, black pine, larch, juniper, etc; Flowers and fruits include camellia, brome, June snow, longevity peach, fire thorn, pomegranate, etc; Miscellaneous trees include broad-leaved trees, shrubs such as elm, skeleton, etc. The miniature bonsai, which is the size of a wine cup, is planted in a basin with a wild state, exquisite and attractive plant shape. The cursive potted landscape refers to the shape of plants into a certain word, commonly used as elm with golden leaves, rose vine, etc. The chrysanthemum potted landscape is to use the small chrysanthemums grafted on Artemisia annua to twist the artemisia stem and form a vigorous tree trunk by manual traction; Modern green sculpture three-dimensional sculpture, also known as "three-dimensional painting", can enjoy different scenery from different angles and positions. There are combinations of rattan plants and buildings, such as green bridge columns, colorful landscape walls, etc. There are sculptures of grass and flowers, such as the charmingly naive giant panda, the beautiful peacock, the elephant with a long nose, the giraffe with a raised neck, flocks of cattle and sheep, monkeys playing on horseback, etc
Auxiliary tools for wood carving: mainly hammer, wood file, axe and saw. The purpose of the axe is to cut a large amount of wood with the help of paring. Pay attention not to use too much force when cutting. Do not cut straight up and down. The edge of the axe should be kept at about 45 degrees with the vertical wood grain, otherwise the wood will crack. Hainan GRC component wood file is mainly used in the fine blank stage of round carving, which can replace the flat knife to smooth the chisel marks for polishing; It can also take the place of round knife or oblique knife for hollowing. The function of the wood file is also that it can quickly adjust the modeling structure in a large area, and can be used in combination with the carving knife to make the turning and turning of the figure's clothing patterns vivid and smooth, with both virtual and real effects. The shape of hammers for wooden sculptures in Hainan is flat, flat, wide and square. The dimension of hammer face can be controlled at about 7 × 5.5 × 2.5 cm. Too narrow or too thick will affect the accuracy of the hammer's landing point and the uniformity of force. There are two kinds of hammers: wooden hammers and iron hammers. The wooden hammers generally use hardwoods with a large proportion of wood, such as mahogany, boxwood, sandalwood, beech and fruit trees. The specifications can be controlled at 27 cm in length, 55 cm in width and 45 cm in thickness; The grip is round and slightly flat, and the size is suitable for holding in the hand.