Artistic Value of Zhao Zhouqiao Panlong Plate Relief

Zhao Zhouqiao has not only high-level science, but also beautiful plastic arts. Its curved flat arch and small open-shouldered arch are huge and ethereal, with soft lines, majestic and elegant, stable and light; From a distance, it looks like a flying frame in the black dragon, a cloud rising in the first month, and a drinking stream in Changhong. Yuhuan is semi-sunk on the main arch of the bridge, carved with dragon head-shaped Longmen stone, and the side of the bridge is decorated with eight lotus face stones. With realistic stone carvings and romantic techniques, the imaginary water-absorbing beast is created, and people hope that this bridge will never be attacked by floods and will last forever. On the railings and sentry boxes on both sides of the bridge, there are all kinds of dragons, animal faces, bamboo joints and floral ornaments. Pan Long and Wang Yang are playing in the water, and the black dragon wants to fly, just like a dragon and a beast. Such as flying, the stone carving is vigorous and simple, the artistic style is bold and novel, the carving is fine and the artistic conception is far-reaching. It shows the rich, neat, vigorous and elegant stone carving style of the Sui Dynasty. In Song Dynasty, Du Youshi, the secretariat of Zhaozhou, praised: "If you drive a stone to fly a beam with a rainbow, the black dragon will be shocked." . In Yuan Dynasty, Liu Bai and Heezen wrote a poem praising: "Water flows over Yuhuan, and people get on the back of the black dragon".

Because of its originality, it has been widely circulated since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It is said that Lu Ban built the bridge, and God sent a wonderful fairy Ding to help secretly, and the bridge was built overnight. In the famous drama "Little Cowherd", the craftsman Li Chun is praised as a saint, which adds to the magical color of Zhao Zhouqiao.