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Introduction of Green Hibiscus Stone

According to the age of production, people will be heirloom hibiscus is called old hibiscus stone, modern production is called new hibiscus stone, new hibiscus according to the nature of the stone is divided into the old hibiscus and young hibiscus stone, the stone nature of the ripe and less patterned is called the old, the texture of the looser and more patterned is called the young. Many stone players believe that old hibiscus stone is better than new hibiscus stone. Old hibiscus stone because of play for a long time, the fire faded, appear gentle and elegant, old to mature, naturally very graceful and stable; and new hibiscus stone always fire, the top quality new hibiscus stone if accompanied by a person for a long time, since the old hibiscus stone will be the same as the people.

Belongs to the Shoushan Stone (Shoushan Stone), China's traditional "four major seal stone" one. Distributed in the northern suburbs of Fuzhou City, Jinan District and Lianjiang County, Luoyuan County, the junction of the "Golden Triangle" zone. If the direction of the vein, can be divided into high mountain, Qishan, Yueyang three systems. Because Shoushan mining early, the old saying "field pit, water pit, mountain pit", is the bottom of the field in this mining area, water streams, caves mining ore. After 1500 years of mining, Shoushan stone emergence of varieties of hundreds of dozens of species.