The stone carving elephant with kind eyebrows seems to be a piece of mythical beast stone carving ornaments that people talk about since ancient times, in the traditional carving art of our country, the stone carving elephant with different shapes is an art form favored by people. In folklore, it is generally believed that the stone elephant is a spiritual mascot and is widely used in various occasions, such as temples, gardens, courtyards, etc. The stone elephant shapes required for different scenes are also different, and each pair of stone elephants hides their own artistic language and charmIn order to make the stone elephant more harmonious with the placement environment, people always like to add many auspicious decorative patterns to the stone elephant shapeCommon Chinese characters with auspicious meanings and traditional decorative patterns representing auspicious ruyi are common.
Among them, the inscription content of the stone elephant covers a wide range, and usually likes to express "peace and auspiciousness", "fortune and treasure", "wealth and longevity", "family harmony", "smooth career", "prosperity" and so on. The symbolic meaning of these auspicious Chinese characters coincides with the meaning of the stone elephant, and the two blend with each other to create a more beautiful symbolic meaning. First of all, the common stone elephant inscription content has "peace and auspiciousness", and the "elephant" of the stone elephant is homophonic to "auspicious", which represents auspiciousness, peace and smoothness. Therefore, when the inscription of the stone elephant is added to the words "peace and auspiciousness", this stone elephant means that the family is healthy and the career is smoothIt is very suitable for placing it at the door of a private house.
Secondly, the common lettering content of stone elephants also has "fortune and treasure", because stone elephants have a trunk that is good at absorbing water, and people believe that "water" is "wealth" in folk metaphysics;The trunk of a stone elephant is a weapon of fortune. A natural and leisurely stone elephant, with a confident and steady pace, eyes firmly looking ahead, the flexible and powerful elephant trunk firmly rolled with ingots or ruyi, such a stone elephant shape means to gather wealth and blessings, very suitable for placing at the door of various profitable places;Such as the entrance of a hotel, restaurant, company or factory.
In addition, the common inscriptions of stone elephants include "family harmony", "career success", "prosperity", "wealth and longevity" and so on. Because the meaning of the stone elephant is very rich, the animal elephant is a very long-lived kind of large mammal, when the stone elephant inscription content appears "rich and longevity" and other words, it can imply the hope that the family is rich, long and healthy. When the stone elephant is engraved with the words "career is smooth" and "step by step", it means that it is hoped that the career will develop smoothly and the position will continue to be promoted. Such auspicious and beautiful Chinese characters are usually skillfully used in the art of stone elephant carving, and it is hoped that these auspicious Chinese characters can bring good help to families and careersThis fusion of Chinese characters and carving art is the progress of stone carving technology, and it is also people's expectation of a better life in the future.