What are the types of Shoushan stone: more than 100 kinds of stones in three categories

Shoushan stone is a kind of stone produced in Fujian, a small stone but can make those collectors fight red in the face, the style is lost.

The small stone contains a great philosophy, do you know what are the major types of Shoushan stone?

Shoushan stone in gemstones and colored stone science, belongs to the rock subclass of the big class of colored stone, there are about a hundred varieties. According to traditional custom, Shoushan stone can be divided into three categories: "Tiankeng", "Shuikeng" and "Shankeng". Shankeng stone is the Shoushan region of the high mountain, flag mountain, Yueyang three mountains in a circle of dozens of kilometers in the cave output of the ore. Shankeng stone due to different origins, veins endowed with different geological conditions, mineral combinations and trace elements of the differences and each has its own characteristics.

Shankeng stone, the bulk of Shoushan stone, is the main source of raw materials for high and medium-grade Shoushan stone seals and stone carving works of art. The Gaoshan system is the general representative of shankeng stone.

Alpine stone Ling Ying Li, the only stone products as many as hundreds of kinds of stone quality, stone quality varies, naming more than not standardized to the color, to phase, to the origin, to the beginning of the phenomenon of digging the name of the phenomenon are there. To color classification of red alpine, white alpine, yellow alpine, shrimp back green, cochineal color alpine and so on. Classified by the phase of alpine jelly, alpine ring jelly, alpine crystal, digging alpine, alpine peach blossom jelly, alpine cow horn jelly, alpine fish brain jelly, alpine fish scale jelly, and so on. Named after the production of holes in the monk hole alpine, big hole alpine, agate hole alpine, oil white hole alpine, Dajian hole alpine and so on.

In the village of Shoushan 8 kilometers southeast of the village of Yueyang, there is a mountain called Yueyang Mountain, which is surrounded by the production of Shoushan stone collectively referred to as the Yueyang system of stone. Yueyang system produces only more than ten kinds of stone, which is the best of the best, to be called Hibiscus stone, Hibiscus stone is known as China's "three treasures of stone" (Tianhuang, Hibiscus, Chicken blood) one of the three treasures. Hibiscus stone cave in the moon Yangshan peak.

The stone quality is extremely warm and moist, grease, delicate, although not very transparent, but elegant in which. At the same time, hibiscus stone is also a big stone family in the Shoushan stone, color classification, divided into red hibiscus, white hibiscus, yellow hibiscus, hibiscus green, safflower jelly hibiscus; and also to the hole classified, called the General Hole hibiscus, on the hole hibiscus, and so on.

Flag drop stone texture delicate fat, slightly transparent or opaque, glossy, unchanged over the years, in the Shoushan stone in the strongest toughness. Color is very rich, with yellow as the tone, yellow, red, white, purple, gray and other colors, or monochrome, or two or three colors in between, the color shades change, or thick or light, reflecting each other.

Flag mountain system of Shoushan stone deposits, a variety of varieties, is second only to the high mountain system of the second largest system. Flagstone is solid, warm, firm, fine, greasy, slightly transparent or opaque, real glossy, colorful, red, yellow, purple, white and other two-color and multi-color intermixed common, is a large family of Shoushan stone, such as yellow flagstone, red flagstone, etc.

Shoushan system Shoushan stone deposits are rich in varieties, second only to the alpine system, the second largest family.

Shoushan frozen stone color has a variety of, white, cream, off-white, red, pink, sky blue, colorful. Shoushan Frozen Stone is as red as chicken blood and as pink as peach blossom, making it a favorite of many seal stone collectors.

Conclusion on the surface is more than a hundred kinds of stone species is actually just the same kind of major categories of different colors caused by, if you count according to the category of stone, or divided into Tiankeng stone, puddle stone, mountain pit stone three.