How are brick carvings made?

Brick-making: Brick carvings in China most often use specially fired blue bricks, which are made of extremely fine clay or silt deposited on the river bottom, and sometimes special firing techniques are applied to ensure that the finished products are uniform in texture, moderate in hardness and free from pores. For example, bricks for brick carving in Huizhou only use the highest quality clay on the north bank of Xin 'anjiang River. Bricks must be polished before use.

Proofing: Rub the design draft on the brick surface coated with limewater, or draw the draft directly on the brick, and adjust the basic layout and proportion.

Blanking: Use a chisel or carving knife to roughly outline the picture and divide it into basic levels.

Fine: use various tools, shovels, engraves, picks and other plans to describe details.

Extended data

Brick carvings are mostly used as building components or decorations for doors, illuminated walls and walls. Because the blue brick has strict quality requirements in the process of material selection, molding and firing, it is solid and delicate and suitable for carving. In art, brick carving can be far and near, with complete effect.

From the subject matter, brick carvings are mainly composed of auspicious and jubilant figures such as dragon and phoenix, He Erxian, Liu Hai drama Jin Chan, Sanyang Kaitai, Guo Ziyi's birthday, Kirin's gift, lion's rolling hydrangea, pine and cypress, orchid, bamboo, camellia, chrysanthemum, lotus, carp and Fulu's birthday.

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