LinXia Brick Research

Summary first, brick carving is an ancient China building decoration art. The original "brick" is as a shelter for defense against beasts poisonous insect, halt the enemy's basic elements of architecture, and brick carving is based on this occurs with the development of the building. In fact, from the "brick" to "carve" should reflect the course of the ancient spiritual culture, and beliefs about witchcraft. This from the pre-Qin period carved decoration on the bricks in the textual criticism of the original motivation to confirm. When the original beliefs and witchcraft develops to a certain altitude, its aesthetic or folk combine with significance only began to find out. Brick carving is traditional Chinese cultural identity and mental of physical and chemical form, with distinct characteristics of the times, reflecting the different periods in the development of the Chinese nation, different national traditions and create concepts, values, morality, aesthetic tastes and customs concept, interpreting the history of the development of human society today for us and taste the traditional deep cultural heritage provides a wealth of original material. Second, China's vast, with a long history, peoples, colorful folk culture. Reflecting on the brick carving art, is also a North-South was different in different styles. Linxia is located in the Northwest Plateau area, is part of the ancient Silk Road, Tang Bo ancient road interchange, chamahushi Center since ancient times. The history of various commercial activities to promote the integration of different ethnic cultures. In linxia except Han, Tibetan outside back, Dongxiang, Islamic Muslim masses such as security, 56.4 per cent of State populationâ„…. Here, size mosques scattered, with strong Islamic characteristics of ethnic, folk as the "eastern wheat plus". In linxia region for each Muslim nation of Islam's history and culture, ethics, lifestyle and Customs has had a profound impact, and through the formation and combination of Chinese traditional culture of the Islamic culture with Chinese characteristics. Hezhou brick carving (linxia ancient oaklet rare, hezhou. Linxia brick carving, also known as hezhou brick carving) as one of the important physical and chemical form of the national spirit, and compared to other brick carving art in Chinese culture, there are very different, more than a few minutes of beauty, moral of dash less ideal.