Why did the ancients in China like stones?

Strange stones and beautiful stones are important things that ancient literati in China enjoyed and played with. Because the abstract ethereal beauty of stone is in harmony with the spirit of China's traditional aesthetic culture, many literati are addicted to stone. China's stone appreciation takes "thinness, transparency, leakage, wrinkle and ugliness" as the standard, that is, the beauty of stone lies in its slender figure and perfect texture, and the stone should be full of large holes, running through from top to bottom, and exquisite in all directions, and the surface of the stone should have concave and convex folds, especially the beauty of stone can be seen in ugliness, and the ugliness can be extremely beautiful.