What is the culture of stone appreciation?

Qi Shi, also known as ornamental stone, elegant stone, offering stone, stone play, Japan called water stone, Korea called Shou Shi, refers to the stone without carving, with natural beauty. Including peculiar fossils, mineral crystals and rocks. Odd stone has a unique form, color, texture, texture. Strange stones have ornamental, collection and scientific research value.

Stone appreciation culture is an important branch of the phenomenon of human stone culture, its basic content is to natural stone as the main object of viewing, as well as for the appreciation of natural stones and summarized a set of theories, principles and methods. Including jade appreciation culture, gardening and landscaping stones and many other aspects of its history is much later than the stone culture.

China's pre-Qin period has been recorded, and the Yellow Emperor is considered to be the early stone appreciation culture initiator. On the other hand, due to the significant differences in the historical and cultural backgrounds of the Eastern and Western peoples, the Eastern and Western stone appreciation culture has undergone different development paths, and its content and characteristics are very different in many ways.

The ancients said: "the mountain is not strange, water is not clear, garden is not a stone show, room is not elegant stone. Appreciate the stone clear mind, appreciate the stone pleasant, appreciate the stone puzzle, appreciate the stone pottery feelings, appreciate the stone longevity." Appreciation of strange stones, to pay attention to thin, leakage, penetration, wrinkles, clear, ugly, stubborn, clumsy, strange, beautiful, dangerous, and so on.

The above aspects, more mainly from the quality, shape, color, texture, potential and other aspects to grasp the beauty of the stone. The source of stone appreciation culture in China, for thousands of years the people of China's love of stone, stone searching, hiding stone, tasting stone style has a long history, forming a traditional stone appreciation culture. And then influence to many overseas countries and regions, today, stone appreciation gradually become an international trend. According to statistics, there are at least 20 million natural stone enthusiasts around the world, and the establishment of the International Stone Association, the International Association of Natural Art Stone Enthusiasts and other international stone appreciation groups.