"How about it, Mr. Xiang is amazing, which friend I have made is not better than you. ”

Little Apple winks playfully at Kowloon.

"Yes, Mr. Xiang himself is an antique, please continue to talk to Mr. Xiang, and I will learn a few tricks well. ”

Kowloon immediately straightened his posture and listened.

Mr. Xiang put the steering wheel and said slowly: ???" The collector of natural strange stones is not the creator of strange stone art, but the discoverer. “

Since the moment he fell in love with stones, Mr. Xiang used all his spare time to climb mountains, trek through mountains and rivers, and work tirelessly to pick up stones everywhere.

In Mr. Xiang's view, no matter what the environment is, as long as you can pick up good stones, it is the greatest pleasure.

He regards stones as precious and cherished, as the so-called gold has a priceless stone, and wherever he goes, he can't forget to bring a stone.

Even when he went abroad to investigate, he had to pick up stones at the Aso Volcano in Kumamoto, the Red Square in Moscow in Russia, and the Berlin Wall in Germany.

At present, he has collected more than 5,000 pieces of various natural strange stones of more than 50 stone species in more than 20 provinces and cities, more than 10 countries and regions.

???? Learning is good at diligence, and the same is true for the strange stone business.

In order to improve his theoretical knowledge and appreciation of stone art, Mr. Xiang studied from teachers everywhere and read a large number of professional books on writing, art and geology.

With the improvement of theoretical knowledge and art appreciation, his research and understanding of strange stones have made a qualitative leap.

It has completed the leap from perceptual to rational cognition, from local to systematic theory.

He has published more than 10 papers in various newspapers and magazines across the country, compiled and published "Strange Stone World", his deeds have been broadcast on CCTV "Shenzhou Style", "Silver Screen Grand View", Hong Kong Cable, Wireless, Pearl TV Column, into the compilation of "Chinese Strange Stone Bonsai Root Art Flower Grand View", "Dictionary of Chinese and Foreign Celebrities", "Who's Who in the World", "Chinese Contemporary Tibetan Stone Famous Artists Dictionary", etc., made a comprehensive exposition on the artistic style and artistic characteristics of strange stones, and put forward his own unique style.

In 1995, Mr. Xiang was awarded the title of "Guangxi Stone Art Master", and enjoyed a high reputation in the national stone playing circles.

???? It is Mr. Xiang's lofty ambition to promote the stone appreciation culture as an industrial culture to the society and the market. In 1995, after raising funds and striving for projects in various ways, he finally established the Guilin Natural Stone Museum.

The familiar name, which has the same name as Mr. Wang Tianran's Southeast Huadu Natural Stone Museum, suddenly makes Kowloon feel a sense of intimacy.

In this way, they walked and talked, and it took more than two hours on the road to Guilin.

As the saying goes, Guilin is located in the northeast of China's Guilin Autonomous Region, is a world-famous tourist city, with a special karst landform.

Thousands of mountains, crystal clear water, deep and peculiar karst caves, and ghostly stones form the four unique "clear mountains, beautiful waters, strange caves, and beautiful stones" of Guilin's landscapes.

Kowloon didn't have time to take a closer look at the scenery, so he followed the collector to the Guilin Natural Strange Stone Museum at No. 1 Qixing Road, Guilin.

At this time, it was lunch time, and Mr. Xiang arranged to have a light meal before taking them into the Strange Stone Museum to visit.

The museum is located in Guilin Seven Star Park, covering an area of more than 2,600 square meters, and the exhibition hall covers an area of 800 square meters.

The strange stone hall is divided into four exhibition halls: strange shape, strange rhyme, strange color and rare treasure.

More than 50 stone species and more than 500 pieces of strange stone boutiques are exhibited, including "Moonlit Night on the Lijiang River", "Pearl Screen" and "Source of Life".

More than 10,000 pieces of strange stones from more than 10 countries and regions, more than 20 provinces and cities across the country have been collected, and more than 100 stone species of more than 10 major categories are exhibited here in turn.

Among them, there are 400 million-year-old Aurora hornstones, 320 million-year-old fossils of biological reefs, 700-million-year-old fossils of 41 trilobites, and extremely rare 5 million-year-old ancient Yellow River ivory fossils.

Mr. Xiang specially explained that this museum is mainly a collection of varieties of stones, and is the largest personal natural stone museum in the country, which has added a new and permanent attraction to the four wonders of Guilin's mountain green, water show, cave and stone beauty, and has also played a demonstration and leading role in China's stone collection industry.

Since its official opening in October 1995, the museum has received more than 30 million Chinese and foreign tourists, including 146 batches of party and state leaders, foreign heads of state, foreign envoys and well-known figures at home and abroad.

It has become an important window for Guilin to open up to the outside world, and has made outstanding contributions to promoting the development of Guilin's tourism industry and the construction of a modern cultural city.

In April 1999, it was rated as "National Advanced Unit of Stone Culture" by the China Collectors Association, and was absorbed as a unit member of the association, and in August 2006, it was absorbed by the China Stone Association as a "vice president unit member".

"Little handsome guy, do you know? Mr. Xiang's title is very loud, enough for you to learn for a lifetime. ”

Little Apple always wants to suppress Kowloon and take the opportunity to kill Kowloon's majesty.

"Really? ”

Kowloon is very calm about these, Mr. Xiang's experience is not comparable to himself.

"Vice Chairman of the Stone Appreciation Collection Committee of the China Collectors Association, Vice President of the China Stone Association, and Director of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture...... How's that? There's also a stone world that's even more famous. ”

Little Apple proudly introduced.

"Hurry up, don't sell it. ”

Kowloon also wanted to know in a hurry.

He created three firsts, all of which are related to stone: after the reform and opening up, China was the first person to build a strange stone museum; he is the person who has the largest collection of strange stones in China; he is the person who has built the largest number of strange stone museums. ”

The little apple spit out the most of the three in a row, making Jiulong's jaw almost drop.

He couldn't have imagined that the person who created so many of the best would be in Guilin, an inconspicuous place of playing with stones, instead of Liuzhou, which was too unexpected for him.

"These are all false names, Xiao Huang don't take it seriously, the most important thing is to be able to play with stones. ”

Mr. Xiang stopped Apple from continuing.

After looking around, the best impression of Kowloon is that the masters are in the people, and there are always some people with foresight who walk in front of you.

Therefore, opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, Jiulong is deeply touched by this sentence, and through these few days he came out to see the world, further understood the stone world, and was also full of confidence in his future.

After reading the whole strange stone museum, it was almost dusk, and it was time to say goodbye to Mr. Xiang and go back to Liuzhou, but Little Apple disagreed, she said that if there was any meaning in coming to see the stone, she must take her to Yangshuo for a walk.

Jiulong was so troubled by her that she really had no choice, so she had to find a hotel to stay in after dinner at Mr. Xiang's side, and prepared to take a car to Yangshuo the next day.

Kowloon skillfully registered the two standard rooms, and after arranging for Little Apple to enter the room, he was about to walk away, but was blocked by Little Apple at the door.

"Little handsome guy, don't you really give me a chance? Anyway, there are no outsiders here. ”

"People are doing it, the sky is watching, I'm going to talk to Xiao Qiao on the phone, can you get out of the way?"

Kowloon responded politely.

"Not really!"

Little Apple replied angrily, simply crossed his hands on his waist, formed a big character, leaned against the door, and did not let Kowloon go out.