What are the details of marble carving?

The history of sculpture art in China is very long, and there has been a lack of skilled craftsmen in the field of sculpture since ancient times. Carving art can be basically divided into several categories based on different carving materials, such as wood carving, stone carving, and gold carving. Regardless of which type of carving art is used, various artworks can be carved out. Carving works of art are also diverse, ranging from small seals to large stone and wood carvings. Next, Little Rabbit will tell you about marble carving.
Stone carving art existed long ago in China. In ancient times, the most common stone carving works were seals, figures and animals in various shapes, Epitaph, etc. In modern times, urban sculptures can also be seen in some large cities, and stone carvings on some campuses are also common landscapes. The commonly used stone carving materials include marble, granite, bluestone, sandstone, etc. Their common characteristic is that they are all very hard and resistant to weathering and erosion.
Marble is a high-quality stone carving material. There are many works of art carved with marble, such as indoor and outdoor fireplaces, east-west figures, animals, fountains, feng shui balls, flower pots, White Marble railings, bathtubs, cool courtyards, columns, stone tables, stone chairs, reliefs, tombstones and rockery landscape stones. Marble carving can be seen in many places, and the reliefs on some monuments are usually carved from marble, while large stone carvings on some squares are also carved from marble. In the field of architecture, marble carving is mainly used for decoration, such as marble railings, etc
Traditional stone carving art is mainly handmade, with several basic processes, such as material selection, cutting, rough carving, precision carving, polishing, etc., which generally take a long time and require high demands from carving craftsmen. But in modern times, various carving and polishing machines have emerged one after another, such as various carving machines, CNC grinding machines, etc. The application of modern machines has greatly shortened the production time of stone carving products. However, there is still a big difference between machine carved products and manual carved products, and pure manual carved products are still much more exquisite than machine carved products.
There are many types of marble carving artworks, and different types of carving artworks have different carving techniques. Common carving techniques include relief, circular carving, sinking carving, shadow carving, carving, and transparent carving. Each carving technique requires a certain level of carving technology and long-term training of carving craftsmen. There is another type of marble carving that is much simpler, which is to engrave characters on marble panels. This type of carving is often used for boundary or tombstones, and ordinary craftsmen can master it through short-term training, with a relatively low level of technical proficiency.
Among the numerous marble carvings, marble commemorative stone carvings are the most common. They have become an important landscape of some big cities and a symbol of the city. Some statues of great figures or heroes are also mostly carved in marble, and Chinese guardian lions in front of the gates of some units are also typical marble carvings.