The vivid brilliance of the color of contemporary stone appreciation is in contrast to the colorful life of contemporary people and the high-profile and flamboyant extroverted personality traits.

German psychologist Rumière has studied that a person's preferred color often represents the color of his personality and feelings, and a person's preference for clothing color and clothing can often be inferred about his psychology.

The same is true of clothing, and the same is true of stone appreciation.

However, some people may ask, why are there still many fans of classical stone appreciation today? In fact, this is a kind of literati feeling.

Although the literati in the traditional sense no longer exists, the attitude and environment of the leisurely and elegant life of the traditional literati have never left our sight.

It is precisely because of the fast and changeable pace of contemporary life that many people have nostalgic emotions and yearn for that kind of slow life like a peach blossom spring.

Classical stone appreciation has also become a kind of sustenance and symbol for us like the ancients and for the thousands of years.

Contemporary stone appreciation is known as a kind of art of discovery, in fact, it is more like an interesting artistic aesthetic, and everyone pays more attention to the shape of the image.

For example, the Gobi stones in the works of the Yunxuan Gold Award are all pictographic stones, including "Enlightenment" (Buddha), "Shengshi Xianghe" (stone lion), "Golden Armor" (crab), "Golden Rooster Dawn", "Golden Toad Wanguan", "Journey to the West", "Jade Rabbit", "Mother Like Buddha", "Ah Fu", "Offering Longevity" (monkey), etc., of course, these pictographic stones are not only lovely, but also have their formation difficulties.

In contrast, the classical stone appreciation is more like a speculative conceptual art, it is more endowed with a certain symbolic meaning, the ancients in the appreciation of the strange stone, does not seem to pay special attention to what it looks like, but from the texture, modeling, structure to find the kind of thing that moves themselves, more attention to whether it has a special meaning and imagination space, this is often a similar and unsimilar thing, from the ancient famous stone inscription can be glimpsed the clues, such as "the three famous stones in the south of the Yangtze River" of Ruiyun Peak, Jade Linglong, Wrinkled Cloud Peak.

Several important works of the Qinghui Garden Stone Exhibition, including the marker stone "Hidden Machine", the gold medal works "Wenxin Carving Dragon", "Exquisite Beauty", "Qi Moist Thousand Autumns", etc., are all so.

Generally speaking, at one end of the stone appreciation, the ancients emphasized the meaning, and the present people play pictograms, which is not only related to the expressiveness of different stone species, but also related to the changes of time and space, and more related to the humanistic feelings of the viewers.

Interestingly, the art of painting has generally developed from figurative to abstract, while the art of appreciating stones has developed from abstract to figurative.

Master Yu finished speaking in one breath, picked up a cup of tea to moisten his throat, and was not in a hurry to continue.

Now, Jiulong has an understanding of Lingbi stone, Taihu stone, Kunshi, Master Yu just talked about the Qinghui Garden stone exhibition, and it is clear that the stone of Guangdong Yingde is authentic, then, what is going on with the stone, he asked Master Yu to talk in detail.

According to Master Yu, the limestone belongs to the sedimentary rocks, which is mainly produced in the Yingde Mountains in the middle reaches of the Beijiang River in Guangdong. The karst landform of the place is well developed, the mountain stone is more easy to dissolve and weather, forming a craggy fold shape; and the sunshine is sufficient, the rain is abundant, the heat and cold, the mountain stone is easy to fall into the valley, after the acid soil corrosion, it presents the state of embedding the hollow, the natural color of the stone is white, because of weathering and rich in impurities (such as metal minerals copper, iron, etc.) and appears multi-colored, there are black, blue gray, gray black, light green and other colors, common black, Blue-gray, black as lacquer is better, the stone is often mixed with white calcite stripes, the stone is hard and brittle, the best one buckles the metal resonance sound, the stone is mostly dry, and the slightly moist one is precious.

The contour of the stone changes greatly, and the common peephole stone eye is exquisite.

The folds on the surface of the stone are deep and dense, and it is the most prominent kind of "wrinkle" in the mountain stone, with bagasse, nest, large wrinkle, small wrinkle and other shapes, which are delicate and colorful.

The difference between the front and back of the stone body is obvious, the front is concave and convex, and the back is flat.

There are many types of stone, and its types are divided into two categories: yang stone and yin stone.

Yang stone bare ground, long-term weathering, hard texture, green color, thin shape, wrinkled surface, brittle sound of buckle, divided into straight stone, striated stone, large flower stone, small flower stone, stacked stone and rain stone, is thin and wrinkled typical, suitable for making rockery and bonsai;

Yin stone is buried deep underground, the weathering is insufficient, the texture is loose, the color is green, there are white lines between them, the shape is leaky, the shape is magnificent, the sound of the buckle is slight, it is a typical leakage and penetration, and it is suitable for independent scenery.

The main production area of stone is Yingshan in Wangbu Town, Yingde, and there are all in the mountains, ravines and waters, which is the origin of stone.

In addition, Qingtang, Baisha, Dazhen and other towns in the east of the country, Shakou, Yunling, Polo, Jiulong, Mingji, Yanbei, Xiniu and other towns in the east of the country all produce stone.

There are also people who put similar ornamental stones in Qingyuan, Yangshan and other places into the category of stone.

The development, research and appreciation of the stone has a long history, and the works on the study of the stone in ancient times mainly include: Song Dujuan's "Yunlin Stone Spectrum" introduces the stone produced in Yingzhou's Hanguang and Zhenyang counties, and the color is slightly green, gray and black, green and white, and introduces Huang Tingjian Ren Xiangzhou too punctual to play the stone at the expense of "ten thousand gold returns", Su Dongpo "won two stones, one green and one white", and the purpose is "Qiu Chi". Song Zhao Xihu's "Dongtian Qinglu Collection" included strange stones such as Lingbi, Yingshi, and Taihu Lake in the "Four Plays in the Study".

Song Luyou described "Jinxi" and "Lingquan" in the "Notes on Lao Xue'an" (note: Qingxi Chaoshui Rock in Shakou Town, the word "Lingquan" is engraved above the rock) "is the place where the stone is produced", and several families specialize in taking stones for a living, and believe that the water drawing stone with "the sound of withering color is like hitting rotten wood" is the "lower material" in the stone.

The Ming Dynasty Jicheng's "Yuanye" introduced the origin and color of the stone and the "Yunlin Stone Spectrum", but emphasized the role of the stone: "The big one can be placed in the garden, the small one can be placed in a few cases, and the pot can also be lit, and the small scene can also be made."

The "Flower Mirror" written by Chen Wuzi in the Qing Dynasty recorded that the stone used for the production of landscape bonsai was "Kunshan White Stone or Guangdong English Stone", which fully affirmed that the stone was the superior material for making rockery bonsai.

Qu Dajun's "Guangdong New Language" in the Qing Dynasty put forward the two concepts of "big British stone" and "small British stone", which also recorded that the British stone was transported to the "Wuyang City" as a rockery, "like a natural formation, the view of the real garden".

In the ancient stone appreciation, the stone and the Lingbi stone can be called the "double bi", the Song Dynasty connoisseur Zhao Xihu in the "Dongtian Qinglu" listed the study utensils to play elegantly, in the "strange stone identification" ranking, the Lingbi stone first, the second stone; the Ming Dynasty connoisseur Wen Zhenheng in the "Long Things" "Stone" chapter, followed Zhao Xihu's point of view, but also the Lingbi stone first, the British stone second, and for the first time clearly pointed out: "The stone is Lingbi as the top, the stone is second. - Other stones are ranked in no particular order.

This is not only because the two are the same composition, similar color, similar hardness, similar structure, and both have vocal characteristics and are respected, and have become the iconic stone species of ancient (classical) stone appreciation, since the Song Dynasty has been regarded as the ideal Tibetan stone by discerning collectors, among the ancient offering stones, the most is Lingbi stone and British stone.

Ding Wen's father edited the book "Imperial Garden Appreciation Stone", which was included in the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City as the earliest stone in the Yuan Dynasty, among which there are two square stones, and the number of stones in the Imperial Garden even exceeds other stones.

In fact, there are many ancient stones that are easily confused with British stones.