The name of Shoushan Stone comes from

The name of Shoushan Stone comes from the place name.

Shoushan Stone is a specialty of Jin 'an District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, and a landmark product of chinese national geography. It is a treasure of China and one of the traditional "Four Yin Zhangshi" in China. It is distributed in the "Golden Triangle" zone at the junction of Jinan District, Lianjiang County and Luoyuan County in the northern suburb of Fuzhou.

Shoushan stone refers to a natural polycrystalline gem produced in the area specified in Chapter III of DB35 _ T419-2012. Its main chemical components are SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, TiO2, K2O and Na2O, and its main mineral components are kaolinite minerals (including dickite and nacrite), pyrophyllite or illite.

Shoushan stone belongs to the rock subclass of colored stone in gemology and color stone science. Its species and names are very complicated, with about 100 varieties. According to traditional customs, the general uses of Shoushan stone can be divided into three categories: tiankeng, puddle and mountain pit. Because it is produced at the bottom of the field, it is mostly yellow, so it is called Tiankeng Stone or Tianhuang. Shoushan stone is generally small in size.

The historical origin of Shoushan stone;

In the Yuan Dynasty, pyrophyllite was used as a printing material by seal engravers, making Shoushan stone the first of the "three treasures of stone printing" and stepping onto the palace of elegant culture. In addition, emperors and generals in Ming and Qing dynasties loved it in every way, thus forming a unique folk craft and cultural history of Shoushan stone carving art from germination to development to prosperity.

The collection of Shoushan Stone began as early as the early Ming Dynasty. Because during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the Shoushan Guangying Courtyard in Shoushan Village, which was built by Tang Guangqi in three years, was burned down in the fire. After the fire, there were many Shoushan stones in the former site of Guangyingyuan, later called "Siping Stone".

According to records, Cao discovered and began to collect Tian Huangshi in the late Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, "Shoushan Stone Fever" was in full swing all over the country, so when collecting Shoushan Stone carvings, it also set off a craze for collecting Shoushan Stone. Moreover, Tian Huangshi in Shoushan Stone at that time had the value of "ten times of easy gold".

During the Republic of China, the wind of seal cutting was extremely prosperous, and a large number of collectors specialized in seal cutting emerged, and Shoushan stone carving was once popular. Shoushan stone seal is as clean as jade, soft and easy to engrave, which is deeply appreciated by painters and seal engravers.