What kind of history do humans have with stones?

When human ancestors evolved from apes to apes, learned to walk upright, learned to make fire, learned to hunt, learned to use leaves and animal skins to cover their bodies, after the food to eat, clothing to cover their bodies, a need for beauty in their hearts, so they learned to use a variety of natural objects to decorate their own, and the culture of strange stones, which is brewing.

When it comes to the historical origin of qi shi, people will generally think of our ancestors with stone hunting, stone carving, but also used to obtain the stone as currency, that can only be called the production of living utensils, and is not qi shi produced initially. In that era, human beings used stones in their lives, which accelerated the evolution of our ancestors and the formation and development of the society, but it has not been able to be used as an object of human aesthetics. That is to say, the history of strange stones began with human beings using stones as an aesthetic object.?

Tracing back to the distant Paleolithic era, people wore animal bones and teeth to show off their status and rights, and then found natural stones with eyes in their lives, so they wore these precious stones and animal bones and teeth as a gift from heaven and God. The stones of that period can be called "qishi". Our ancestors found that wearing stones is very beautiful, so they began to use artificial ways to make eyes on the stones or change the shape of the stones to wear. This shows the human pursuit of beauty and change.

The book was written in the Warring States period of the "Shangshu - Yugong" records, at that time, Qingzhou Dai field drains produced "strange stone" that is classified as tribute, which can be seen, stone culture in China has been stretched for at least 2,000 years.

Pre-Qin era, playing with the stone is known as "fools", so few people appreciate the stone. Gradually, the people who love stone more. The earliest record of "play stone fools" text can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn period into the "Turkic", the book describes the "Song's fools get Yan stone in the east of Wutai, return to hide it, thought the great treasure. Zhou guests heard and watched, the host fasted for seven days, the end of the coronet clothes, provoked by the special sacrifices, leather chamber, Tijia ten raids. Guests see, Lu Hu and laugh, said: 'This Yan Shi also, and tile is not different.' The master was furious, said: 'the words of merchants, vertical craftsman's heart! Hidden the more solid, keep the firm." In the eyes of the stone-loving "fool", Yan Shi is unique, charming, a rare treasure. Jin Dynasty Guo Pu has recorded that "the stone looks like jade, there is a charm color baby band, the so-called Yan Shi." See, Yan Shi is a kind of jade-like texture and colorful texture of the stone, no wonder the "fool" angry, in exchange for today's me, I am bound to be furious, but also to rebuke a sentence: "businessman's words, vertical artisan's heart!"

The Qin and Han dynasties, the record of the stone, more limited to the royal family, the court Lin Yuan. Wei Jin era, the stone gradually from the rockery in the differentiation, independent faction, began to be known to the public, and for people to watch, collect. Appreciation of strange stone wind really flourished in the Tang Dynasty. With the revitalization of the Tang Dynasty, the development of culture, China's stone appreciation culture has also entered a period of prosperity.

Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty, until the Republic of China period, with the economic and social changes, the integration of cultures, a large number of strange stone into the literati ornamental vision, in the long-term practice of stone appreciation, the theory of stone emerges in large quantities, the culture of strange stone gradually developed into a mature system, becoming an important part of traditional Chinese culture.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to well-known reasons, including stone culture, traditional culture has experienced a stagnation and even repeated impact of the historical process. After the reform and opening up, especially in the past two decades, with the economic and social development, the national vision of the broadening of the spiritual life of the revival, making, Chinese traditional culture "salted fish to turn over", the wind of the cultural game is also followed by a big rise, people began to open up, rational mentality towards traditional culture. In this context, the folk stone appreciation, play stone began to enter a new period of development.

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