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Yi, a Chinese character, is pronounced as lè, and its original meaning is Yi. It means a stone as beautiful as jade

Stone culture:

China ornamental stone culture is a unique cultural phenomenon in China and an integral part of traditional culture. The stone tool culture originated from the primitive tool manufacturing of primitive humans, who created stone tools for the needs of survival, development and security. With the improvement of stone tool manufacturing technology, human beings entered the Neolithic Age from the Paleolithic Age.

At the same time, because of the relatively rich material sources for survival, primitive humans began to pursue beauty, so they dressed themselves up with beautiful stones as trinkets to attract the attention of the opposite sex. This began to have a spiritual pursuit of beautiful stones. 7000 years ago, stone beads and simply processed jade articles have been unearthed in Peiligang culture in Xinzheng, Henan Province and Hemudu culture site in Zhejiang Province.

Jade ornaments in the shape of dragons, eagles and pigs have been unearthed in the ruins of Hongshan Culture in western Liaoning and eastern Inner Mongolia. They are the products of primitive spiritual needs of human beings and can be described as the earliest stone works of art. ..

China is the birthplace of oriental stone appreciation culture. There are written records in the history of China, which can be traced back at least to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 3,000 years ago. According to "Taiping Yulan Xunzi", "Song Yu got five Dongyanshi, returned to Tibet, thought it was a treasure, and Zhou Ke heard about it.

"In fact, as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties (20th century BC), as the forerunner and prelude of stone appreciation culture, jade appreciation activities have been very popular. According to historical records, Zhou Wuwang once "got 14,000 old precious stones and 18,000 yuan of jade" during the cutting week. Shan Hai Jing and Biography of Xuanyuan Huangdi further pointed out that Huangdi was the "first jade user" in China.

Because the output of jade is too small and very precious, it is reasonable to use "beautiful stone" instead. Therefore, China's stone-appreciating culture is originally the derivative and development of jade-appreciating culture. Shuowen said that "jade is the beauty of stone", making jade one of the stones. Therefore, strange stones and strange stones often rank among Baoyu and become tributes with local characteristics.