The art of carving various patterns and images on stones, usually also refers to sculpture handicrafts carved from stones. Chinese stone carving can be divided into bluestone carving, marble carving, white marble carving, talc carving, black crystal stone carving, colored stone carving, pebble carving, etc. Hui'an, Fujian, is famous for its bluestone carvings for architectural decoration and stone lions, among which the mouth of the stone lion contains stone beads that roll freely, and is famous in Southeast Asia. The marble carving in Yunnan is made from the marble of Diancang Mountain. Its patterns are like colored mountains and rivers, or dangerous peaks and valleys, or waterfalls follow the clouds. The inlaid furniture is unique. White marble carvings in Quyang, Hebei, Fangshan, Beijing and other places were mainly used for palace architectural decoration in the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as Huabiao, stone lions, railings, etc; Modern times are used for decoration of public and memorial buildings, such as the Great Hall of the People, the Monument to the People's Heroes, Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall, etc. Talc carvings in Haicheng, Liaoning Province and Laizhou, Shandong Province use small and cute animals as traditional varieties. The carvings of black crystal stone in Dongkou, Hunan and Lichuan, Hubei are dark and bright. Caishi carving is mainly produced in Qingtian, Zhejiang, Shoushan, Fuzhou and Liuyang, Hunan. Pebble carvings are mainly produced in Lanzhou, Shenyang and other places. Stone carving techniques include intaglio (contour carving), shadow carving, relief, round carving (complete three-dimensional carving without any background), and openwork (also known as openwork). Shadow carving is a unique technique of Fujian Hui'an bluestone carving. It uses steel drills of different sizes to chisel on the bluestone, and uses the size, depth and density of the drill points to express the images of landscapes, birds, animals, people, flowers, etc.

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. ascend a height Abstract sculpture 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 Abstract sculpture Price 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.

First of all, make the structural layer of the steel bar mountain mesh on the stone wall. According to the Hainan sculpture stone structure, the density of the steel bar is about 30 to 50 cm. Then, bind and weld the steel bar on the exposed steel bar head. Pay attention to the need to shape the approximate shape. After the steel bar is welded, tie a layer of steel wire mesh outside, and then start painting. The first painting is to make a base layer. For the second painting and shaping, it is necessary to make some rock texture, such as concave and convex, wrinkles, because the above steps must be grasped, and craftsmen must make the surface very artistic! Must have basic skills of modeling and stone molding. It is effective to spray stone like paint. Before large-area spraying, small samples were tested to show speckled particles in natural stone. Fill the gaps in the stone wall with earth and then plant them. Maybe fill some ceramic bottles and jars that are harmonious with the theme materials. There are still some water sources in the pottery to supplement its spatial diversity. There is also a new type of plastic stone, which is made of light materials such as environment-friendly building raw materials, fine resins, efficient reinforcing agents, pro aggregate, imported pigments, etc., by mixing, processing, and molding, and then steaming and curing at high temperature. Each product has different shapes and various combinations, which are no different from real stones in texture, color and texture.

The traditional method is to brush lime water or wall powder, but it is easy to be polluted and cannot be scrubbed with wet method. It is mostly used for general buildings. More advanced buildings use flat ready mixed paint as decoration material, which is rich in color and is not easy to be polluted, but the volatile amount of organic solvent mixed in is large, which pollutes the atmosphere and affects the health of construction personnel. With the development of science, organic synthetic resin raw materials are widely used in paint, making the appearance of paint products fundamentally changed, so it is called paint, It has become an important interior and exterior wall decoration material. There is a long history of papering interior walls and ceilings, but it has been replaced by plastic wallpaper and fiberglass wall covering. Hainan sculpture gypsum board has the characteristics of fire prevention, sound insulation, heat insulation, light weight and high strength, and convenient construction, which is mainly used for walls and flat roofs; When making a flat roof, holes with various patterns can be punched to improve the sound absorption and decoration effect. Calcium plastic board has a good decorative effect, can keep warm and sound, and is a multi-functional board. Marble and granite plates are increasingly used to decorate high-end hotels and apartments.