| Stone as one of the earliest human use of natural materials, with its unique nature and aesthetic feeling, is widely used in many aspects of society, especially in the construction industry occupies an important position. As a kind of raw materials, stone throughout the entire process of building construction, the nature determines the stone building materials using the depth and breadth in society. Song dynasty is the ancient Chinese construction period of high-speed development, infrastructure construction present a quantity, long duration, and the application of stone ensures that the scale of the project can proceed smoothly.The widely application of the song dynasty building stone is dependent on the huge development of quarrying. Yanshi in Luoyang and Xingyang in Zhengzhou as the main base for basic supplies the official quarry large building stone, folk quarrying also very flourish, so that has great influence on the quarry topographical features, and the phenomenon of quarrying industry profits to sublet a quarry. Stone processing technology is also constantly improve at the same time, the stone application mode innovation, lime as new building materials are widely used. Building stone was applied to all aspects of the song dynasty architecture, covers the wall facilities, water conservancy facilities, transportation facilities, imperial tomb facilities, landscape facilities, and so on. Stone gradually used widely in construction, in some key areas or substitute other materials become, concentrated expression is the stone instead of wood, deepening and practice more to promote the continuous development of stone building. In the song dynasty, on the other hand, building stone material aspects of the development of the mini-sculpture development laid a solid foundation. Stone used to improve the strength of the building, make people in the building practical extension on the basis of the higher requirements for architectural aesthetic, architectural modeling more diversity, more aesthetic feeling. The development of Chinese landscape garden also is able to fully, provides the national culture of ornamental stones and widespread stage. In traditional Chinese architecture, building stone as the material carrier of the mini-sculpture, sends out the artistic charm of China’s ancient, embodies the ancient noble elegant aesthetic taste, bearing the excellent traditional culture of our country. |
