Huizhou's "Three Kinds of Carving" ( wood, brick and stone carvings) are famous for their consummate techniques in all China. Especially, these carvings can be combined with indoor and outdoor components and decorations of the building, adding luster to the building and outstanding themselves. Building's door-visors, beam-heads, lattice windows, partition boards are refinedly made, exquisite beyond compare.
Huizhou's woodcarving is not daubed with colored paint but Chinese wood oil. The most precious woodcarvings used gingko and nanmu, which can show well the nobility and natural beauty of wood grain, furthermore refrain the negative influence of paint on woodcarving's details.
The material used in stone carving is the rock, called "Yixian Blue Stone". The stone carving was used in gates of Huizhou dwellings and memorial archways. The most surprised thing is the lattice window made of one-piece stone, with designs of proper density and a form combining hardiness with softness.
Huizhou's brick carving is made of blue brick with hard and exquisite quality, abundant at Huizhou. This carving is widely used in bars, gate-slipcover and lintels, constituting an important part of the buildings with Huizhou style.
As an important representative of Huizhou architecture, the garden with Huizhou style is characterized by bonsai and pond with Huizhou style. They are distributed at front part and back part of common people's houses, contacting closely with their ordinary life. Tangan Garden at Tangmo Village of Yixian County is a famous garden with Huizhou style, called "Small West Lake". built by Huizhou merchant Xu for his mother to get some idea of the landscape of the West Lake in Hangzhou. This garden was small and exquisite. drawing the architectural technique of Jiangsu and Zhejiang's gardens. The water-yard in Li Shuming house at Hongcun Village was situated back of the main room, out of the vestibule and extending to the small pond; the "arm-chair for beauties" (An arm-chair, made of wood, generally used at garden; seated on it ladies look more beautiful, so has this name. ) and stone balusters on which put bonsai with Huizhou style, as well as lattice windows made of burnished bricks on the whitewashed walls, are all full of local and rural smell.
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