Stone division has a history of several years.

Shishi has a history of nearly 2000 years.

Lions originated in West Asia and Africa. In the first year of Zhanghe River in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 87), the atheist king I in peacetime (now Iran) sent a caravan to give the lion as a gift to Zhangdi, and it was introduced to China along the Silk Road. The lion, known as the "king of beasts", has a mighty appearance. After it was introduced into China, it shook the prestige of the folk tigers in China, and was gradually regarded as a beast to ward off evil spirits. The stone lion in front of Gaoyi Tomb in Ya 'an, Sichuan belongs to the remains of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, with the introduction of Buddhism, because the mount of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra in Buddhism was a lion, the stone lion carving art was soon introduced to China from India and other places, and gradually spread among the people. Rare animals such as lions were kept in ancient palaces, which were hard for ordinary people to see. Folk craftsmen could only copy from Buddhist illustrations. Because we can't refer to the real thing, we have to give full play to the rich imagination and creativity of China people, personify the lion's shape, make it lifelike, add humanistic color, realize the unity of things and me, and become a symbol of Confucian golden mean philosophy.

According to the investigation of ancient stone lions, the earliest preserved stone lions in Yangming Temple in Guiyang are three Ming Dynasty stone lions. Yangming Temple was built in the 12th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1534) in memory of Wang Yangming, a thinker of the Ming Dynasty. Among a pair of stone lions in front of the gate, 1 has been destroyed, and 1 is still kept in the second yard inside the gate. The shape of this stone lion is more like a 1 cute poodle except that it has curly hair and four claws. The other two stone lions look like pigs at a distance and like dogs at a close distance. Their exaggerated shapes are close to comics. These three stone lions can be said to be the treasures of stone carving in Ming Dynasty in Guizhou.