Lingbishi (original)

"Lingbi Zhilue" records: "Lingbi has 70 peaks, including bluestone, Qiao Shi, black and white stone, transparent flower stone, vegetable jade and colored stone. The mountains and rivers are beautiful and the stone is as beautiful as blue. " Because the stone is hard and thick, dense in structure and thin in shape, people who know music can knock out eight notes, so Lingbi stone is also called "Eight Tones Stone". ?

Lingbi Stone has been exposed in Yamanoue for many years, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth. Its skin color is simple and natural, generally gray or gray-blue in sunny days, and different shades of color after wind, frost, rain and snow, mostly dark blue or cyan. In particular, the strange stones that have been played for a long time are not oily at all, and their luster is brighter and more flavorful than the black ones that have been manually cleaned. ?

There are many sapphire, blue and black parallel stones with different shades and concave-convex textures on the epidermis. There are mainly walnut patterns, jujube patterns, yellow sand patterns, bark patterns, chicken feet patterns, line stripes, spiral patterns, turtle patterns, gold lines and silver lines. The creation of nature is so wonderful. Colorful stones, patterned stones, etc. Its texture grows in entities with different background colors, such as plain and convex patterns, and the texture is rich in color, so colored lingbi stone is hard to see in the market.

There are many sapphire, blue and black parallel stones with different shades and concave-convex textures on the epidermis. There are mainly walnut patterns, jujube patterns, yellow sand patterns, bark patterns, chicken feet patterns, line stripes, spiral patterns, turtle patterns, gold lines and silver lines. The creation of nature is so wonderful.

After hundreds of millions of years of natural weathering, Lingbi stone has naturally formed the characteristics of thinness, wrinkling, leakage and permeability, as well as the unique charm of strangeness, ingenuity, beauty and strangeness. Some lingbi stones, like independent scenery, are wonderful. Some of them are vivid and shocking. Some are lifelike, like an abstract pattern, lifelike and interesting. Poetry: Passing through Lingbi Mountain, I suddenly saw the Buddha standing in the mountain, and the Tao was psychic, just because there was a Tathagata in the mountain.

The master is in the folk. Jiangsu Xuzhou Kistler Cultural City is located in the cultural scenic spot of Chuwangling, where Kistler and Lingbi Stone meet. The identification of the authenticity of Lingbi stone, especially the identification of strange stones, should be particularly careful, carefully observed, touched by hand, smelled for strange smell, and washed with water if possible. The methods of making fake Lingbi stone are axe chisel, face cutting, bottom sawing and acid leaching.

Some Taihu stones are similar in shape to Lingbi stones, and there is a crisp sound when struck. Someone dyed Taihu stone black and pretended to be Lingbi stone. The hardness of lingbi stone is higher than that of Taihu gypsum. You can scrape the bottom of the stone with a knife. If the stone is scraped out, it is a fake spiritual treasure. In addition, although Taihu stone also has white stripes, it is far less clear and numerous than the white stripes embedded in Lingbi stone black, which is also a way to distinguish it. ?

Stone is an important part of China traditional culture, and it is a national intangible cultural heritage. Every piece is an orphan. Strange stones are not only material wealth, but also spiritual wealth. People can enjoy the beauty of life while enjoying stones, and also improve and enrich the power of emotional varicose veins. Good works represent people's ideological realm. Appreciating and playing with a beautiful stone is an unparalleled beautiful scenery in life.

Yang Chunyan, February 22, 2020