Category: Minnan in Stone

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The southern school: the five ways Minnan carvers cut stone

Ask how a stone carving is made and the answer is usually one word: carved. In the Minnan tradition ...

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A thousand years of chisel marks: the history of stone carving in Minnan

Stone carving on the south Fujian coast is not a surviving fragment of something older. It is a work...

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What green-bean-blue stone is, and why it carves the way it does

Every piece in our stone-carvings department is cut from one material: the dark green stone that car...

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