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Curious stones are naturally occurring stones with unusual shapes, with unusual materials, shapes, colors and patterns. In a broad sense, all natural stones with ornamental value can be called strange stones. The most important feature of the stone is that it is not only natural, but also natural, and the stone has not been artificially carved or synthesized. Qi Shi is an ornamental stone characterized by natural beauty, its own naturalness, i.e., no artificial processing or carving, is one of the most important criteria to distinguish it from other ornamental stones. China's four great stones are: "Dongpo meat-shaped stone", "age", "Chinese eagle", "chick out of the shell". .

Elephant-shaped stone

Elephant-shaped stone refers to the purely natural formation of unpolished artificial modification with elephant-shaped qualities of the stone. Because of the elephant-shaped stone is very rare, so, for generations of stone collectors have put the elephant-shaped stone as the first choice. The biggest difference between the pictograph stone and picture stone is that the pictograph stone is more three-dimensional, while the picture stone is the picture sense, the two are not divided into who is better and who is better, because they belong to the same two different types of stones, no comparability. The biggest characteristic of pictograph stone is pictorial, such as characters, animals and artifacts. A good hieroglyphic stone is like a sculpture of art, elegant, atmospheric, very three-dimensional sense. Because of the natural nature of the stone, hieroglyphic stone is no exception, so each side of a good hieroglyphic stone is unique for two, which also established his preciousness.

Patterned stone

Patterned stone is a class of stone in the natural evocative pattern and the ornamental stone. Many of the rainflower stone, Tianjing stone is a fine product of this kind of pattern stone. It's that gorgeous color of the beautiful patterns, some such as Dongyue morning glory, Emei twilight; some such as red flowers, plums, snow; some like the Eight Immortals across the sea, the Guanyin sent the son of the ...... is intriguing. Belonging to this kind of marble composition of the pattern stone, as well as Yan Shen stone painting and so on.

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flesh stone

Qi Shi Jiangxi Muhua Tianbao, the people of Jiangxi Province, rich in stone appreciation, stone appreciation Culture has a long history, according to the Song Dynasty, "Yunlin Stone Spectrum" recorded in Jiangxi, up to 17 kinds of stone, ranking the top of the provinces. Since the reform and opening up, the rapid development of stone appreciation in Jiangxi, "Yunlin Stone Spectrum" contained in the stone is constantly being rediscovered and developed, the most prominent is the Yushan stone in Shangrao area and Ganzhou area of Shangyu stone. In addition to the rediscovery of the old stone species, new stone species continue to emerge, the newly developed scribble river stone, zhangjiang stone (nanan stone) and yushan stone (sanqing stone), shangyu stone together as jiangxi stone four staple stone species.

Shangyu stone belongs to the volcanic metamorphic rocks, formed hundreds of millions of years ago, for the combination of frozen stone and yellow wax stone between, after a long period of differentiation, scouring block smaller. Shangyu County, the territory of the complex geological structure, numerous mineral belts, rivers are densely populated, the formation of unique geological conditions of the strange stone, riverbanks and streams are interspersed with stones of excellent quality Shangyu stone. More than eight hundred years ago, China's earliest and most influential stone spectrum - "Yunlin Stone Spectrum", recorded 116 kinds of national famous stone and origin, Ganzhou City, Shangyu County, Shangyu stone is listed among them. After being dusted off for more than 800 years, Shangyu Stone was finally rediscovered and recognized by people, and returned to the family of famous stones in China.

In the Shangshu stone and scribble river stone, people have found a new kind of stone - meat-shaped stone, its pork skin, fat and thin layers, bright colors, like a bowl of freshly baked Dongpo meat, colorful, realistic image, for the modern stone enthusiasts favored. Jiangxi stone enthusiasts Mr. Wu on the meat stone is particularly fond of, in more than ten years of the collection process, the pursuit of meat stone nearly obsessed with the collection of a large number of different specifications and shapes of the meat stone. In order to let you have a glimpse of the elegance and improve the understanding of the meat stone, now part of the collection to readers.

Textured stone

is a stone composed of regular or irregular textures and lines. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of textured stone, in addition to excellent stone quality, mainly look at the composition of the lines, good textured stone lines smooth, fast-paced, can form a certain rhythm, and staggered, or layers stacked up, distributed evenly such as terraces; or intervals of the arrangement, in order, forming a variety of patterns, can be regarded as the best; if the lines composed of the pattern, and the pattern and the shape of the stone is consistent, is the best in the fine products. On the contrary, the lines are disorganized, neither pattern, nor smooth, can not give people a sense of beauty, is considered inferior.