With the development of tourism, more and more antique buildings are emerging, especially antique architectural attractions such as Buddhist-themed temples and local ancestral halls. Therefore, the stone carving works that symbolize Buddhist culture are widely loved by people: stone buddha statues, stone carved arhats, stone carved lions, stone carved Guanyin, stone carved stupas, stone carved dragon pillars, stone carved arches, stone relief walls, granite carved windows and so on. In particular, the granite relief wall with the theme of Buddhist mythological stories basically has it for every temple and ancestral hall. The theme of the stone relief wall is rich and colorful, and the superb skills of the stonemasons make the characters on the relief wall not only come to life, but also retain the simple and heavy sense of natural stone, rendering the solemn atmosphere of the temple ancestral hall.
First, let's talk about the relief walls in temple-like antique buildings. As we all know, there are some differences between the Buddhist culture of the mainland and the Buddhist culture of India. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, after Buddhism was transmitted from India to China, Chinese combined it with Chinese Taoism to form a Buddhism with Chinese flavors, so the Chinese temples and ancestral halls will be quite different from the Buddhist temples in India. Each region has its own different themes of gods and Buddhas according to its different customs and legends. For example: there are Mazu temples in coastal areas, so the ancient temples in these areas will have Mazu stone statues, Mazu relief walls; in the northern region, there are more Buddhist temples with the theme of Shakyamuni and the Eighteen Arhats, so these temples are mainly arranged with various stone Buddhas, stone carved Arhats, etc.; the southern villages have their own temples, these temples are mainly based on stone merit monuments, stone merit arches, family legend stone relief walls, etc.; some villages in the north will have corresponding temples of the guardian gods of the family house, and these temples will have corresponding stone carvings of the guardian gods , stone carvings with the theme of patron saint myths and legends, etc
Then let's talk about the relief walls of the ancestral hall-like antique buildings. For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has been a nation that pays attention to family inheritance, and the ancestral hall, a Chinese-style building with traditional Chinese colors, reflects this. The basic function of the ancestral hall is to sacrifice ancestors, through the sacrifice of ancestors, with the continuation of blood relations with the same surname as a link, to connect the entire family members, and form a cohesive force and affinity within the clan. Ancestral hall culture allows relatives at home and abroad to remember homesickness, which is the root of continuous tearing between family members at home and abroad, and it constructs a three-dimensional form of regional culture with the culture of the academy, the family temple family house, and the local temple culture. We found that many ancestral halls in China will have stone relief walls, and most of the patterns carved on these stone carved walls express the clan cultural concepts such as welcoming good fortune, persuading students to learn and making meritorious achievements through symbols, harmonic sounds, typical and other techniques, such as 24 filial piety is a more typical ancestral hall relief wall theme.