Sculptures have also expanded from simple stone carving to wood carving, tooth carving, jade carving, copper carving, stainless steel carving and other fields.
Carving techniques are improving day by day, such as round carving, through carving, carving, relief and so on.
There are many kinds of carving products, including traditional ancient building ornaments and modern figure statues; There are both garden sculptures and home decorations.
1995, the State Council officially named Quyang County as "the hometown of China sculpture".
According to legend, Sean-Huang Shigong, a famous teacher with Guiguzi, wrote the Book of Carving Heaven, and only then did someone create stone carvings and wood carvings on Huangshan Mountain.
By the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD), sculpture had flourished and was praised as "the hometown of sculpture" by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Since then, Quyang stone carving has stepped into glory, its skills have become increasingly exquisite, and sculptors have come forth in large numbers.
Yang Qiong, a famous sculptor in Yuan Dynasty, carved a "one lion and one tripod", which was called "a must" by Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu.
At the end of Qing Dynasty (A.D.1644–191), the artist's sculptures "Crane" and "Dried Plum" won the second place in Panama International Art Fair, making Quyang stone carving famous all over the world.
From Yungang Grottoes, Leshan Giant Buddha, Dunhuang Grottoes and Wutai Mountain Buddha statues, to Epang Palace, Forbidden City, Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace and Jinshui Bridge in front of Tiananmen Square, to the Great Hall of the People, Monument to the People's Heroes, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and other buildings, the carving art of Quyang people has been left everywhere.
After the founding of New China, artists combined relief, sculpture, round carving and other techniques with modern anatomy, perspective and aesthetics, making antique works simple and elegant, lifelike, modern works fresh and natural, and far-reaching artistic conception.
Eight works, such as Sleeping Guanyin and Three Officials by Lu Jinqiao, a representative artist and contemporary national master of arts and crafts, are regarded as treasures by the state and collected in China Arts and Crafts Museum.
Zhen Yancang, an international master of arts and crafts, has created a brand-new "Western-style" carving technique, and his sculptures are more attractive.
Dingyao kiln in Quyang is a large porcelain kiln system after Xingyao white porcelain in Tang Dynasty.
Mainly produced in Jianci Village, East Yanchuan Village and West Yanchuan Village, Quyang County, Hebei Province. Because this area was under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou in Tang and Song Dynasties, it was named Ding Kiln.
Ding kiln was originally a folk kiln, and palace porcelain was fired in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty.
As early as Yangshao culture period, pottery appeared in Quyang, and pottery-making in Shang and Zhou Dynasties had made great progress.
In the Sui Dynasty (58 1-6 18), Quyang began to burn coarse porcelain, and in the Tang Dynasty (6 18-907), it began to produce white porcelain, which reached its peak in the Northern Song Dynasty (969- 1 127). It is famous.
Ding kiln porcelain has a great influence at home and abroad.
In particular, white porcelain is white and delicate, with uniform glaze color, thin and hard, ranking first among ceramics.
Su Dongpo, a writer in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Lu Gong fried tea to learn about the West Shu and Dingzhou carved rubies with flowers and porcelain", praising the elegance of Ding kiln porcelain.
Ding kiln porcelain in Song Dynasty was not only used by the imperial court, but also exported to Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Persia, Turkey and Africa.
In the British Museum, Guding porcelain is also collected as an art collection.
The Palace Museum also collects precious porcelain "baby pillows".
Dingyao porcelain was destroyed by war in the Yuan Dynasty, and most craftsmen went south to make a living, which made great contributions to the development of Jingdezhen ceramics later.
Ganglu sesame seed cake
Tanlu sesame seed cake is a special food in Quyang. Its composition is autocratic and secret. Exquisite production, crisp entrance, crisp and pleasant, not greasy for a long time, not hard to dry.
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Jiaozi, Black Girl, also known as "Time-honored jiaozi", is a famous imperial food in China with a history of more than 300 years.
Its founding producer was Mr. Su, the court chef during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty.
Dumpling stuffing is made of more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, which has the effects of strengthening brain, refreshing mind, tonifying kidney and liver, warming middle warmer and dispelling cold, nourishing yin and strengthening yang.