Button carving refers to the carving of the buttons on the upper part of the seal. It belongs to the category of round carving and has a rich three-dimensional sense. However, compared with round carving, it has three significant characteristics. First, the image is small, limited to the size of the seal, which is generally less than 10 cubic centimeters; The second is to show only the upper part of the object, rather than the round sculpture, which needs all-round performance; In addition, the performance content of button carving is mostly animals, especially animals in ancient legends, such as chi, lion, dragon, tiger, exorcism, taotie, etc. Therefore, button carving is also called "animal button". The history of button carving is linked with seals. Only seals can make buttons. According to relevant historical research, the earliest seal started in the Zhou Dynasty, more than 3000 years ago. The original seal is a symbol of power and status, and is a special item for princes, generals and ministers, and Dada dignitaries. The original seal button was also very simple and simple, just drilling a small hole on the top of the seal to wear strong ties for carrying, so the seal button is also called "seal nose". With the continuous development of history, a strict hierarchy has emerged in the materials and buttons of seals according to the different positions and official titles of users. For example, the official seal of the Qin Dynasty, in addition to using gold, silver, copper and other materials to distinguish the level of the officials, also distinguish the decoration of the buttons. In the Han Dynasty, the emperor used tiger buttons with jade seals, the crown prince, the lieutenants, the prime minister, the lieutenant, the sangong and the left and right generals used gold seal tortoise buttons, and the officials of Dai Lu with two thousand stones used bronze seal elephant buttons Since then, the buttons used by all dynasties, from the monarch down to the officials of various products, were mostly chi, lion, dragon, phoenix, tiger, exorcism, taotie, unicorn, camel, bird, claw, bear, bat and other animals in the zodiac, depending on their positions.

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. 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-scale carvings such as stele books and cliff carvings, there are also some stone carvings, such as mourning volumes in imperial tombs and modern fine carved small stone books, such as more than 100 mourning volumes of white marble excavated in the tomb of the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and six stone books of "Thirty six Strategies" carved in tile slate in modern Chengdu, a total of 26 pages and 1278 words, bound into a volume with eyeliner, each page is 2.2.6mm, which can be read.

1. Traditional green sculpture shaping: directly pruning the plants with garden art. There are simple geometric shaping (such as sphere, cube, pyramid, cylinder), complex geometric shaping (layered shaping, spiral shaping, etc.), animal shaping and various peculiar shaping (automobile shaping, aircraft shaping, abstract and free shaping, etc.). Tunchang EPS line Common plants include pine and cypress, privet, boxwood, national locust, elm, etc. 2. Grafting: taking a certain plant as the rootstock, grafting plants with different impressions on it, and then making artistic processing of its shapes, such as polychrome chrysanthemum bonsai, polychrome rose bonsai, polychrome peach, polychrome plum, polychrome crabapple, etc. Such as cliff chrysanthemum, tower chrysanthemum, animal shaped chrysanthemum, etc. 2.1 Single plant green sculpture refers to the sculpture formed entirely by one plant or one plant with multiple colors or by grafting multi-color plants. The sculpture has a long viewing period and simple operation. For example, tree sculptures can be kept for a long time only by special pruning, without considering flower changing and water spraying, and the maintenance management is simple. 2.2 Double plant green sculpture refers to the sculpture shaped by two different kinds of plants. The sculpture has a long viewing period and a strong three-dimensional sense, and usually uses the complementary and mutually reinforcing advantages of two plants for modeling. Such as evergreen and deciduous plants, broad-leaved and coniferous plants, lianas and herbs, as well as different colors, species, branches and leaves, such as leaf color, flowers and fruits, branches and stems. 2.3 Mixed plant green sculpture refers to sculpture with three or more kinds of plants. EPS line customized The sculpture has a short viewing period and complicated operation, but it is highly ornamental and lifelike. The common ones are large three-dimensional sculptures, some animal shaped sculptures elaborately composed of flowers, leaves and fruits of different plants according to design requirements, such as peacock, red crowned crane, panda, etc; Or symbolic sculptures with certain cultural connotation and city image, such as idiom allusion sculptures (learning to walk in Handan, dancing at the smell of chickens), Olympic seal, football World Cup, etc.

At present, most of the most influential sculptures in China and the West are made of copper. For example, Rodin's "The Thinker", "The Bronze Age", and "The Statue of Liberty", the world's top sculptures are mostly made of copper. The lines are suitable for sculpture because of the texture, plasticity, unlimited specifications, and rich color texture of copper, which are also jade sculptures The effect that wood carving and stone carving can't achieve is that jade carving can only make very small works because of the limitation of materials. Because of the limitation of wood carving technology, there is no precedent for large outdoor sculptures. The inheritor, whose bronze carving has opened a new chapter in the 5000 year history of copper.