Stone carving industry driving the stone rapid industrial development
China's stone carving, stone carvings industry fast development areas are mainly concentrated in Fujian, Hebei, Beijing, Shandong, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Second Sichuan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Yunnan and other provinces, municipalities. With the rapid development of China's stone industry. One of the important part as stone carvings and stone handicrafts stone processing industry, higher value added products, expanding exports, has also been booming. Especially in recent years, the development of rapid, showing the trend of growth year after year, its export growth rate is higher than the other stone products. Over the years, carved stone products in China export volume is basically about one third of the share of total national stone exports, but also an upward trend, has become an important aspect of export of stone products, stone products have been exported to more than 50 countries and regions.
As the main raw material, especially in Beijing of Fangshan and Hebei Quyang production of white marble and production in Sichuan Shu white, Hebei, Beijing, mainly in marble carving, sculptures and diverse skill intensive. Hebei stone carvings concentrated in Quyang, known as the "stone town", marble carving, more than two thousand years of history, ancient stone famous masterpieces lot, more than 1000 of the existing size of the stone carving factory, a carving school. Quyang stone carving exported to more than 40 countries and regions, and the outstanding works of world-famous. Beijing stone carving for the history of the Royal palace and palace garden construction to make a huge contribution, has saved many masterpieces masterpieces, such as the Forbidden City in stone carving Beaulieu. Today, the Beijing Fangshan County rock carvings Development quickly produced white marble lions, stone statues and garden art rock carvings welcomed by domestic and foreign users.
Granite carving marble carving of Shandong Province are developed, to Qingdao, roughness, Laizhou, Tai'an, JIAXIANG and other cities and counties are mainly concentrated production areas of the stone carving products, its production has formed a certain scale, and stone carvings have been exported products. Granite carving mainly Japanese-style stone lanterns, stone-sculpture; marble carving ancient and modern figures, ladies statues and animals, garden decorative pieces, mainly. Jiaxiang County, Zengzi homeland, is a stone one of the birthplaces of Chinese stone carving and comic, of a "stone town", more than 2,000 years of history, such as the Han Dynasty Vu Thi the tombs carved stone, and the Han Dynasty stone, Vu Thi Cinei, one pair of large stone lions our existing lions only have records of the exact age art treasures. Jiaxiang County has become one of the province's key stone products exporting regions, and will further expand and develop. On thousands of years of history in the the Laizhou City Zuocun Town of stone carving processing, in recent years, making the many giant granite carving, granite carving Dalian Tiger Beach "Tigers", the whole stone carving long 36m wide 7.6m high 3m, by six different patterns of tiger statue supine or prone, or jump, very lifelike statue is from more than 400 pieces, weighing more than 130 tons of granite, only one tiger hoof there weighs more than five tons, called the rare stone carving. Laizhou carved Buddha, King Kong Avatar stone carving, height 2-3m, shape and spirit is superb, some giant stone works have been sold to Southeast Asia and Taiwan.
Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Shaanxi Province stone carving produced a very long history, and today there are mass production and exports.
Guangdong stone carving variety of craft products, with an annual output of more than million tons, marble furniture and other bulk export overseas. Except Hangzhou traditional marble stone furniture, Zhejiang recent years granite stone products, especially Japanese tombstone production and export development soon. Large color stone mosaic, "Dream of Red Mansions story map carved screen made in Yueqing, the carved screen 2.3m, length 70m, weighing 13 tons, contains all kinds of characters over 30 sets of literature and art and craft in one magnificent splendor. Jiangsu recent years, the stone carvings development of the northern Jiangsu area faster Xufu hometown Ganyu stone furniture and Japanese tombs supplies, such as dragon plate stone table, Steller stone bench, stone coffee table and stone lanterns, are well known. Sichuan Baoxing Shu white marble carving mainly followed the green sand and granite carving, both production lions, stone elephants, Shilong, Shima Stonebull stone rabbit, Shiyang and stone unicorn carving, and production people, ladies, Bodhisattvas, Arhats statues and garden stone sculptures, vases and other craft stone carving, the annual output has reached 100,000 (sets), the products are sold outside the province and exported to the United States and other countries and regions.
Fujian has a long history of stone carvings, mainly in Hui'an, Nanan, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Zhangzhou, county, city. Today the province's annual production of hundreds of thousands of pieces of stone products, most for export, and exported to the world.
Yunnan Dali County Cangshan jade carving handicrafts and marble furniture for a long time famous home and abroad; historic Shaanxi stone carving, was a relative to the tomb of the Han and Tang and Song emperors produced many stone sculptures, stone inscriptions, such as Fuping, Suide County's white picket fence lions strange things called a must, as well as in recent years, tomb stone carvings, are notorious.