Notice of RetractionA study on origin and development of Lingnan decorative ridges of pottery modellings

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Lingnan decorative ridge of pottery modellings was one of the "Two Types of Sculptures" of the Lingnan traditional decorations, and is the unique decorative on Lingnan buildings. There are only five buildings in China whose decorative ridges of pottery modellings are better complete today. They are Chen\´s Ancestor Temple, Foshan Ancestral Temple, Xujiang Ancestral Temple, Yuecheng Longmu Ancestral Temple and Chongxu Taoist-temple of Mountain Luofu, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. There are a total of 33 decorative ridges of pottery modellings of Qing Dynasty on them. Lingnan decorative ridges of pottery modellings are facing the danger of faultage in the contemporary era, which distributed widely in Lingnan and Southeast Asia those days and decreased so greatly that they only exist on several buildings today. Only by clarifying the origin and development of decorative ridges of pottery modellings, we could effectively protect and inherit them. After the preliminary study Lingnan decorative ridges of pottery modellings which are still existing, we got the trace of development of decorative ridges of pottery modellings roughly. We probe into origin of the decorative ridges of pottery modellings, its relationship with antique-shelf roof, the development of its theme and expressing techniques, its position in the decorations of Lingnan Architecture, as well as the progressive thinking embedded in it, and the system of their potters.