“鸦片战争后,上海成开埠城市,各国列强在进行军事、政治、经济侵入的同时,还在上海建造了不少为殖民主义者歌功颂德的纪念雕像。”1正是受此影响,原本只为“神”铸像的中国人也开始为“人”造像。当然,国人开始造像的原因是多方面的,一方面是西学东渐,一批有识之士对先进艺术文化所产生的诉求;一方面一批归国的雕塑家如张小鶼、刘开渠、李金发、杨铸成、梁竹亭等致力于雕塑艺术的教育和研究。2还有一方面是“五四”运动使得民族主义情绪日渐高涨,一些英雄的纪念碑和 “After the Opium War, Shanghai became a city of ports. While carrying out military, political and economic invasions, the powers of various countries also built a number of commemorative statues in Shanghai that praised the colonialists.” 1 It is because of this that “ Chinese people who originally cast their images only for ”gods“ also began to make ”people“ statues. Of course, there are many reasons why people started to make statues. On the one hand, they are pursuing the course of learning from west to east, and some people of insight have appealed to advanced art and culture. On the one hand, a group of returned sculptors such as Zhang Xiaojuan, Liu Kaiqu, , Yang Zhucheng, Liang Zhuting dedicated to the sculpture art education and research. 2 On the other hand, the ”May Fourth Movement" made nationalist sentiment rising day by day. Some heroic monuments and