With a long history and its own genre, it has a unique artistic charm of unrestrained atmosphere, exquisiteness, and both form and spirit. Its tone is realistic and elegant; Techniques include round carving, carving, relief carving and line carving; The process of phase separation, cutting, rough carving, fine carving, wax sealing and polishing is a bright pearl in the treasure house of folk art. The so-called history can't count the folklore that "the stone left by the goddess of mending heaven descended into Qingtian stone", but according to textual research, people began to know and use Qingtian stone as early as the period of Yanze culture, and the cultural relic "Qingtian Yellow" unearthed from brick kiln in Qianjin Town, Huzhou City is proof. Qingtian stone has become a rare thing in the hands of artists because of its warm texture, elegant color, crisp softness and variety. Since Wang Mian, a famous painter and poet, created Qingtian lithographs at the end of Yuan Dynasty, Qingtian Yin Shi began to openly enter the poet's study and even became an emperor and an important official. In AD 1790, two sets of buttons, the Bao Dian Fu Shu and Zhang Yuanshou Disc, made of Qingtian Guang and frozen stone, were presented to the emperor in the 80th year of Qianlong, which opened the curtain for Zhang Shi to enter the Forbidden City. From the end of 17 th century to the beginning of 18 th century, Qingtian stone carvings were sold abroad by artists and entered foreign markets. They have been exhibited and won prizes in Chicago St. Louis Expo, Nanjing Nanyang Persuasion Association, Panama Pacific Expo and London China Art International Exhibition. After the founding of New China, Qingtian stone carving was presented as a national gift by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the heads of state of the former Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, North Korea and Singapore for its unique exquisite skills. 1992 Qingtian stone carving was selected as a special stamp by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. 200 1, together with Shoushan stone, feldspathic stone and Balin stone, is called the four famous stones in China, and it is the first to obtain the first certificate of origin of stone carving in China. In 2006, it was praised as "the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list in China"; At present, there are more than 20,000 stone carving practitioners in qingtian county, forming an echelon creative team headed by six national arts and crafts masters and1/provincial arts and crafts masters, with more than 100 senior artists as the backbone, as well as a large-scale, high-grade stone carving market and professional stone culture research institutions. Qingtian stone carving from scratch, from decline to prosperity, from domestic to overseas, from single craft to exquisite works of art, is like a long river of art, shining with the wisdom of artists from generation to generation, from ancient times to the present.

One day, taste a world! If one day, you will love this wonderful flower in the field of arts and crafts in China; If you have a day's time, you will be fascinated by this plump and smart world of stone carving.

Qingtian stone carving is three-dimensional, hollow, simple, well-organized and well-organized. When the sculptor creates, his heart, eyes and hands are consistent, and he enters the realm of free will. Jargon: pure, smooth and spiritual. Pure means that the stone is wet and pure. Generally, sculptors have the skill of "patting stones", and sculptors are skilled, fluent and in one go. The works are novel and charming, expressing profound connotation and charm.

It spans time and space, gathers the soul and spirit, essence and spirit of Qingtian stone carving, and shows the connotation of Qingtian stone carving culture; China Stone Carving City, located in Shankou Village, Shankou Town, the birthplace of Qingtian Stone Carving, is a platform for Qingtian Stone Carving to enter the market, allowing the ancient oriental art to blend harmoniously with the market economy and go hand in hand. Walking into the stone carving workshop in Yamaguchi is like walking into the palace of art, with lifelike dummy Buddha statues, colorful flowers, birds and animals, beautiful scenery ... The stone carving works are simple and elegant. The place where the meat cleaver carved, suddenly opened and closed, slowly and urgently, suddenly true and suddenly empty. Stone carving artists use dexterous hands to condense the elegance of the times and artistic lyrical artistic conception on the stone, and constantly interpret the magic of "phoenix nirvana", so that everyone knows what it means to turn decay into magic, and its fine, precise and beautiful sculpture is the best in the world; Siqian Rock Scenic Area is located in the east corner of the mountain pass, and it is the first stone carving theme park in China. There are nearly 20 scenic spots in the scenic area, including Siqian Lake, Ladder, Tianmen, Luohan Wall, Garden, Bed of Yin and Yang, Frog Stone, Frog Cave, Siqian Bridge and Si Qian Temple, all of which are granite. Among them, Si Qian Waterfall is the most distinctive. It flows down from a height, hits rocks and forms countless ties, so it is called "Si Qian Waterfall". Tianmen consists of a ladder and Tianmen. The ladder stands steeply, with 148 steps. Tianmen is so narrow that a person can pass sideways. There is a forest of steles of 100 square meters, bearing in mind the great praise of Qingtian stone carvings by celebrities in previous dynasties. Here, Shan Qi, Shiqi and Shuiqi endow Qingtian with a poetic artistic conception of stone carving.

"Let the stone carving tell the world that there is a Qingtian in China!" This is the theme slogan of the second Qingtian Stone Carving Festival, which truly reflects the significance of stone carving to Qingtian. If you embark on the cultural journey of Qingtian stone carving and understand the past, present and future of Qingtian stone carving, you will certainly feel the wisdom and culture of Qingtian, as well as the exquisite, open and compatible connotation and emotion as stone carving.