The ancestral hall is an important place for the southern Fujian region, and it is also a traditional Chinese building. The basic function of the ancestral hall is to sacrifice ancestors, and through the sacrifice of ancestors, the continuation of blood relations with the same surname is used as a link to link the entire family members, which is also an expression of cohesion and affinity within the clan. For the architecture of this ancestral hall, people will also spend time to build it, and the use of stone carvings has become an important choice for ancestral hall architecture.
Stone relief carvings are widely used in ancestral halls, temples, and ancestral homes. For example, various exquisite stone reliefs can be seen on the façade, walls and railings of the ancestral hall. The stone reliefs of the ancestral hall are as colorful as the round carvings in content, form and material. It can be designed by high relief or bas-relief, which is also decorated with stone relief in many ancestral halls, which has a solemn, calm and serious effect. The following can share with you some pictures of the stone carvings of the ancestral hall, and also let everyone better understand the different architectural styles of the ancestral hall.
Stone carving relief carving in the ancestral hall ancient house architectural carving art is quite widely used, these carving works generally selected stone is mainly granite and bluestone, these two materials have high hardness, solid texture, strong and durable characteristics, very suitable for architectural carving, but also the ancestral hall carving relief mural choice.
In these ancestral halls, stone relief carvings are mainly reflected in the doors and windows, cornices, corner towers, walls and other places of the ancestral hall, and the charm of traditional Chinese culture and the exquisite carving technology of Huian stone carvings are fully displayed through various stone relief murals. Many ancestral halls will have stone relief walls, and most of the patterns carved on these stone walls express the clan cultural concepts such as welcoming Xiangxiang and receiving blessings and making meritorious achievements through symbolism, homophony, typicality and other techniques.