Huizhou Three Carvings is a kind of local traditional carving art, which refers to three local traditional carving techniques with Huizhou style, namely, wood carving, stone carving and brick carving, in the area of one mansion and six counties in ancient Huizhou (now yi county, Shexian, Qimen, Xiuning, Taiping and Jixi in Anhui Province and Wuyuan County in Jiangxi Province). The three sculptures have a long history, exquisite skills, handed down from generation to generation, complete technological process and high reputation at home and abroad. Their exquisite carving skills and immortal artistic value fully reflect the outstanding talents and artistic creativity of the working people in ancient China.
The theme of Huizhou Three Sculptures is deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and most of them are plot characters and stories, such as myths and allusions, drama stories, folk legends and living customs. Animal patterns are mostly tumbling and dancing, such as lions, unicorns, horses and deer. There are many patterns and categories of flowers and birds, mostly in the form of single-branch flowers and tangled branches and leaves. Bo Gu diagram is also a common pattern; However, the theme of brick carving in Beijing is mainly natural flowers and plants, or auspicious patterns are combined, and sometimes there are some Bo Gu, but the patterns of characters' stories are very rare. Brick carvings in Hezhou are restricted by Islamic canon, all of which are plants and geometric patterns, without animals or figures.
Huizhou Three Sculptures are the perfect combination of China's folk tastes and literati tastes. They reflect the influence of Xin 'an Neo-Confucianism, emphasize the social education function, and attach importance to the natural integration of emotional experience and moral ethics in aesthetics. Three sculptures fully embody the characteristics of traditional folk art language and the subjective will of folk artists. This highly decorative, naive and naive artistic modeling in Huizhou Three Carvings has integrated the excellent traditions of Central Plains culture and art since Qin and Han Dynasties, and at the same time absorbed the rich nutrition of Huizhou regional culture, resulting in a unique appearance that is exquisite, fresh and elegant, and has become a wonderful work in the cultural history of China.