At present, for the safety of both sides of the Yongjiang River and flood control facilities, the government has long strictly restricted sand fishing operations in urban areas and suburbs, and the resources of ornamental stones in the Yongjiang River are gradually facing extinction.

Types of ornamental stones in Yongjiang

The original bedrock of the Yongjiang ornamental stone was formed after hundreds of millions of years of geological action.

About millions of years ago, the upper reaches of the Yongjiang River and the ancient Yongjiang River were formed, and after millions of years of river washing, the Yongjiang ornamental stone with the main characteristics of the strange and exquisite was finally formed.

There are many types of ornamental stones in Yongjiang:

Yongjiang natural modeling stone: it is divided into image stone, character stone, animal stone, utensils stone, text stone, pattern stone, landscape, strange stone, circle stone, nest concave stone, crystal stone, agate stone, wax stone, round egg stone and dozens of other kinds.

Yongjiang red stone: the whole body is red, and there are many flat or square shapes.

Yongjiang Sketch Stone (Hand Play Stone): The type is similar to the type of the above-mentioned "Yongjiang Natural Modeling Stone", but the difference is that it is small in size, small and exquisite, and is used for hand play.

Yongjiang paleontological fossils: the capital is the "Five Elephant City", and the relationship between the capital and the real elephant can be traced back to the discovery of the ancient "Oriental saber-toothed elephant" fossils in Yongjiang about hundreds of thousands of years ago and the "Asian elephant" fossils about tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years ago, which is also a witness to the historical changes in the natural world of southern China.

In addition, about 8,000-7,000 years ago, the "Yongjiang Ancient Animal Carving Symbol Fossil" was also found, which is one of the earliest primitive fossil carvings and important material evidence of Chinese ancient characters in the Gui Autonomous Region, including many buffalo fossils.

"So, there are quite a lot of ornamental stones in the capital, what are the characteristics of appreciation?"

This is of interest to Kowloon.

Now, it was Mr. Luo's turn to get serious, and he replied carefully word by word, for fear of making a mistake.

Yongjiang ornamental stone and Dahua colored jade and other stone species are different from each other to comprehensively appreciate the "quality", Yuhua stone to appreciate the "color", Wujiang stone to appreciate the "clear air", painted pottery stone to appreciate the "color pattern", and the guest stone to appreciate the "shape".

It can be summarized as: "The shape is treacherous, the skin is moist and pulp, the texture is exquisite, the siliceous jade is hard, the golden bronze is colored, and the charm is superb."

"Clever and treacherous": The clever and treacherous shape is typical and unique to most Yongjiang stones, the most representative of which is the "wo concave stone", which is very similar to utensils, bowls and inkstones.

In any place, as long as you see the golden wo concave stone, it is basically sure to be Yongjiang stone.

Yongjiang stone is often combined to create, such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone to form the "four treasures of the study" or to form "yin and yang stone", "word stone" and other themes, the list goes on.

"Skin moist with pulp": the delicate and moist stone skin is another feature of Yongjiang stone's appreciation, pulp, is the old pulp and old-fashioned gas on the surface of the ancient jade for many years, and it is a sign to measure whether the antique has a long age.

The people who play the stone in the capital pay attention to whether the stone skin of the Yongjiang stone is coated to measure its authenticity and value, for example, the wo concave stone pays attention to whether the stone skin inside and outside is coated with slurry to determine the degree of washing and rarity.

"Exquisite texture": Yongjiang stone is small and exquisite, the texture not only presents natural scenery, character patterns, but also presents Chinese and English words and numbers.

"Siliceous jade": The stone quality of Yongjiang stone includes siliceous rock, quartzite, jasper rock, etc., among which the siliceous jade has a tough texture, good hand feel, and good washing, and has become a strange stone collection of stone players in the contemporary capital.

As early as thousands of years ago in the Neolithic Age, the ancestors of the capital used these natural Yongjiang siliceous jade stones to grind into exquisite jade axes, jade adzes, jade shovels, etc., which are a microcosm of Chinese prehistoric civilization.

"Golden bronze": Although Yongjiang stone is not mainly characterized by color appreciation, Yongjiang stone's "golden bronze" Yongjiang stone with golden yellow and bronze as the main color, in addition to dark red Yongjiang red stone, gray brown, light blue, gray and white and other colors.

"Shen Yun is superb": the "Shen Yun" of Yongjiang Stone comprehensively embodies the aesthetic characteristics of "clever and treacherous, moist skin with pulp, exquisite texture, siliceous jade, golden bronze" and unique cultural charm, Yongjiang Stone has also won the praise of "strange, exquisite".

Since Yongjiangshi is so good, the question arises, why doesn't Mr. Luo himself play? What is the untold story in this?

Mr. Luo smiled: "Actually, the problem is not complicated, I am from Mashan County, from 1999 to 2002, when I was still working in Mashan Linwei, I saw a group of people in Mashan who made a living by dealing in large fossils, and they often worked tirelessly to buy stones from Dahua Rock Beach, and then took them to Liuzhou to sell."

"It was the first time I had seen a large fossil, and I wondered, can the stone still be sold for money?

"A few years later, several brothers of Mr. Qin, the predecessor of Mashan Stone Appreciation, bought back a stone from Yantan and named it 'Cornucopia', which was soon bought by Mr. Huang of Liuzhou for 2.3 million.

"When I heard that the stone was sold for such a price, I went to see the rough for myself.

"At first glance, I think this stone is very beautiful, the stone skin is delicate and smooth, the atmosphere and dexterity coexist, it is very pleasing to the eye.

"At that time, the mood was still relatively impetuous, as soon as I saw such a stunner, I was immediately excited, there is such a magical thing in the world?

"In the process of finding beauty, pursuing beauty, and discovering beauty, human beings do whatever it takes. ”

"Listen to Mr. Luo's meaning, do you still like this kind of colorful and bejeweled stone?"

Jiulong knew the characteristics of the big fossil, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, in addition to what you said, the big fossil is atmospheric, and the shape is also rich in changes, and the Yongjiang stone, ordinary and small, the color is not bright, of course, the most important thing, the big fossil has a market, Liuzhou people love to play this, I can't avoid vulgarity. ”

Mr. Luo's sentence is to the point.

"People often say that it is not easy to play with other stones, doesn't Mr. Luo feel that it is troublesome to seek the near and far?"

Kowloon asked.

"If you're going to have trouble, I've had it. ”

Mr. Luo honestly admitted, "It was 2006, and several of our stone lovers worshiped a certain senior who played with stones in Mashan as a teacher, and felt that he had been playing with stones for a long time and had rich experience, and he also talked a lot about the benefits of playing with stones in front of us, such as stones bringing great wealth to people."

"Although we had different ideas about playing with stones, we had no teacher, so we had to ask him to guide the way.

"In the end, he took his ordinary stones to the house of a certain stone friend in Yantan, and then asked us to buy them back for a few thousand each, and when we came back, we found that the stones were not satisfactory, and they were different from the good stones we usually saw, without shape, without skin and bright colors, they were mud-colored, and I threw them to others a few days after I came back.

"A few days later, I went back to the stone friend's house and complained to him, 'I didn't like the stones I bought from you that day, and I threw them all away when I got home.' '