Horse-tethering stone sculpture
Horse-tethering stone sculpture is a scenic area in Beijing, China.
Visitor information
- Also known as
- 拴马桩石雕
- City
- Beijing
- Coordinates
- 39.8744833, 115.9247868
About Horse-tethering stone sculpture
Shuanmazhuan stone carvings are traditional folk stone carvings in northern my country. They are mainly distributed in Chengcheng, Xunyi and other places on the Weibei Plateau of Shaanxi. The number of existing pieces in Chengcheng County ranks first in the country with more than 2,000. It is carved from a whole piece of bluestone or local red sandstone or white sandstone, with a height of 1.6-3 meters. It consists of four parts: pile head, pile neck, pile body and pile root. It is mostly erected on both sides of the gate of residential houses. It has the functions of tying livestock, building decoration and keeping the house away from evil. The carving themes include lions, monkeys, humans riding beasts, and the Eight Immortals of Taoism. Among them, the shape of a human riding a lion is the most distinctive through dynamic depiction and the hollow design of the reins eyelets.
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