The folk stone carving art of Baoan Town, Daye City, Hubei Province is represented by Yin Jieyuan Village, which is well-known at home and abroad for its long history and exquisite craftsmanship. Since the Tang Dynasty, their ancestors have been carving stones from the mountains and handed down from generation to generation. In 2008, Daye Yin Jieyuan's stone carving skills were selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list. The folk stone carving art of Yin Jieyuan in Baoan has been passed down from generation to generation for a long time, accumulating rich stone carving skills and creating thousands of stone carving art masterpieces with rich content, various varieties, local style and national characteristics. It can be called the soul treasure of folk stone carving art. When you walk into this village with a bond with stone, it's like walking into a kingdom. The road under your feet is made of bluestone slabs, and the stone steps are stepped on. There are nearly two hundred households in the bay, and the doors of every household, whether it is an old house left over from the old society or a newly built building, are all made of stone door armor, stone support wedges, and stone flat couplets. Even the windows and back doors are made of stone, and some even have walls made of stone. In particular, the nearly one-square-meter stone couplet on the top of each door is particularly eye-catching, and each piece can be called a work of stone carving art. What are "Happy Birds and Plum Blossoms", "Pine and Crane in Spring", "Two Dragons Playing with Pearls", "Double Phoenixes Facing the Sun", "Five Blessings Holding Longevity", "Four Seasons of Good Fortune", etc., not only are the patterns beautifully designed, but also the carvings are very delicate, which makes people feast their eyes and praise them. The folk stone carving art of Baoan Town, Daye City, Hubei Province is represented by Yin Jieyuan Village, which is famous for its long history and exquisite craftsmanship. Its ancestors began to open mountains to take stones and carve according to stones since the Tang Dynasty, and passed it from generation to generation. In the past, Yin Jieyuan Village had extremely convenient water transportation. Wooden boats could be docked at the foot of the mountain and at the gate. The boats passed through Baoan Lake and Fankou and entered the Yangtze River. With this golden waterway, Yin Jieyuan Village was undoubtedly connected with the outside world. In addition, the bluestone of Fenghuang Mountain opposite the village has a large reserve, excellent texture, clear layers, and is easy to mine. Therefore, the ancestors of the village made full use of this unique resource advantage. In addition to fishing and farming, they took stones from the mountains and sailed by the water to start the stone processing industry. In this way, the current stone carving skills were formed from generation to generation. According to the "Yin Family Tree", in the Tang Dynasty, the Yin family moved from Tianshui, Gansu to Jiangxi, and several years later moved from Ruichang, Jiangxi to Yangxin, Hubei, and then moved to Shibanqiao, Daye, and then moved to Yin Jieyuan. The first generation to settle in Yin Jieyuan was Jieyuan Gong, hence the name. Stone carving has been going on for 20 generations from the "Guo" generation to the "Cheng" generation. Traditional folk stone carving skills. The ancestors of Yin Jieyuan Village, Baoan Town, started to take stones from the mountains and carve them according to the stones since the Tang Dynasty. Since then, the stone carving craft has been passed down from generation to generation. They relied on a hammer and a chisel to make the stone beautiful, making this skill more mature. The main stone carving tools are hammers, chisels, chisels, gongs, rulers, etc. The openwork technique requires very high requirements, which requires hollow carving on hard stone. The hollow lamp in Guiyuan Temple in Wuhan was made by Yin Jieyuan, a stone carving artist. The "lion on the gate bracket" is also a hollow openwork work, which can be compared with court art. The stone window of "Jiang Taigong fishing", the modern works "lion" and "Danfeng Chaoyang" in Qingchuan Pavilion are widely used, ingeniously conceived, and profoundly meaningful, all of which have achieved the same effect. The stone carving varieties made by Yin Jieyuan stone carving artists are mainly divided into the following categories: production stone carving; life stone carving; architectural stone carving; decorative stone carving; commemorative stone carving; faith stone carving, etc. Among these types of stone carvings, steles and stone lions are the main products. From north to south and from dynasty to dynasty, they have left behind a large number of folk stone carving art treasures. In Wuhan East Lake Park, there are famous allegorical stone sculptures: "Zengzi Never Lies", "The Blind Man and the Elephant", "The Archer and the Oil Seller", "The Hunter Fights for the Wild Goose", which are lifelike and artistically reproduce several humorous and meaningful story plots. This group of stone sculptures was designed by Professor Liu Zhengde of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts and made by stone carving artist Yin Jieyuan of Baoan. In 1987, they won the Best Award for Excellent Works of National Urban Sculpture. These works have become the fine works of Chinese stone carving art and are also demonstration works for student textbooks. In 1986, a bluestone little lion from Yin Jieyuan Village won the second prize in the Hubei Arts and Crafts Exhibition and participated in the first China Art Festival in 1987 and was exhibited at the National Art Museum of China. Among the ancient masterpieces still treasured in Yinjieyuan Village is the relief "Fisherman, Woodcutter, Farmer and Reader", which was created by Yin Guangde, a folk artist in the Qing Dynasty. It is about 1 meter long and 0.7 meters high, with a strict composition, symmetrical and balanced pictures, and relatively accurate, and full of decorative interest. Every object in the picture is carefully carved to be lifelike, making it an exquisite relief work. The conception is ingenious and the meaning is profound. The oldest treasure preserved in the village is the "Bamboo Poems of Guandi", which was carved by an artist named "Duling Erqu Jushi" for the Chang'an Stele Forest in 1716. The stele is about one meter long and half a meter wide, with a bamboo carved on it. The bamboo is finely carved and lifelike, and the arrangement is natural and ingenious. However, the bamboo leaves are arranged intentionally, forming a quatrain: "I don't thank Dongjun for his intention, and his painting has its own name. Don't dislike the solitary leaf, it will never wither." It is particularly proud that in 1957, the Hubei Provincial Stone Carving Team, led by Yin Xianming and Yin Benxiu from Yin Jieyuan Village, Baoan Town, went north to Beijing to participate in the construction project of the China History Museum and was cordially received by national leaders. While passing on their skills, the artists not only provided the society with exquisite artworks and gave people spiritual enjoyment, but also developed the economy and created economic benefits. In November 1996, Baoan Town was named "China's Folk Stone Carving Art Town" by the Ministry of Culture. Stone carving artists will further inherit, develop and utilize this traditional folk craft to serve the construction of both civilizations, strive to play its due role in embellishing the beautiful mountains and rivers of China, and beautify people's lives, adding brocade and embroidery, and overflowing with fragrance and color.