江苏洪泽湖大堤石工图案遗存的调查与研究

Investigation and Research on the Stone Relief Remains on the Embankment of Hongze Lake in Jiangsu Province

洪泽湖大堤蕴藏着大量的石刻遗存,其中石工图案占有较大比例,具有浓郁的民俗文化与水文化特征,是我国18世纪石雕艺术的优秀作品。石工图案大致分为器物、庆词颂语、植物与动物、人物、山水日月、屋宇建筑六类题材,大部分图案运用寓意的构图形式来表达主题思想,基本采用浅浮雕技法。制作年代主要是清代乾隆时期,历史背景与清口枢纽治水相关,是中国大运河世界文化遗产的重要组成部分。

The embankment of Hongze Lake contains large amount of stone carvings with stone reliefs, which present folk and water cultural features and represent the best works of stone art of the eighteenth century of China, taking a significant portion. The subjects depicted in these reliefs include six main categories： utensils, words of blessing, plants and animals, human figures, landscape, and architectures. Most of the reliefs adopted the base-relief technique and used the certain composition to express morals. These stone reliefs were mainly created in the Qianlong Reign of the Qing dynasty in line with the construction of the Qingkou water engineering project. They are an important part of China＇ s Grand Canal, a UNESCO listed world heritage property.