人物雕塑是以古今中外的各种人物为造型的雕塑艺术，指用各种可塑材料或可雕、可刻的硬质材料创造出具有一定空间的可视、可触的艺术人物形象。借以反映社会生活、表达艺术家的审美感受、审美情感、审美理想的艺术。由于中国人物雕塑起源于工艺美术，因此大部分人物雕塑作品具有很强的装饰性和实用性；注重人物面部刻画，并对塑像加彩，塑绘结合，互相补充，使得作品具有和绘画一样的美感和欣赏价值；注重以形传神，以凝练的人物雕塑语言，表现高度的意象美。人物雕塑是最能显示一个社会文化气息的大众艺术品。

Character sculpture is a kind of sculpture art modeled by all kinds of characters at home and abroad. It refers to the creation of visible and touchable artistic figures with various plastic materials or sculptible and carvable hard materials. It reflects social life, expresses artists'aesthetic feelings, emotions and ideals. Because Chinese figure sculpture originated from arts and crafts, most of the figure sculpture works have strong decorative and practical; pay attention to facial portrayal, and add color to the statue, combining sculpture and painting, complement each other, so that the work has the same aesthetic feeling and appreciation value as painting; pay attention to vivid and concise characters. The language of sculpture expresses a high degree of image beauty. Character sculpture is the most popular art that can show a social and cultural atmosphere.