The Study On The Inheritance Of LinXia Brick Craving Arts

LinXia Brick Carving mainly embodies the speciality of distinctive decoration art of LinXia ancient architecture, which has a high artistic value and a long history. It enriches exterior decoration of buildings through vivid embodiment and simple and elegant material. This art contains deep traditional cultural connotations according to variety of creative subject and implied meaning. The embodiment of this art, the vivid life it brings and the industrious sweat of every LinXia artists pay, are indicating the superb technical craft of folk artists.In the background of craving artists and folk culture of Islam in LinXia, the skill of LinXia Brick Craving is passed on with the oral transmission, and continues to develop from generation to generation, this art reflects the cultural integration and social development in every aspect among LinXia Hui nationality and other nationalities.This thesis chiefly studies folk art inheritance and inheritor in LinXia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province, combining with religious cultures, customs of Islamic history. The article argues the importance of the inheritance and inheritors of LinXia Brick Craving arts from the view of the relation between Islamic architecture and Brick Craving as well as the view of the function of LinXia Brick Craving on Islamic architecture. It will elaborate certain amount of historical social background about the Brick Craving inheritor.