Episode 107 The Origin of the Stone Capital
Liuzhou people love stones, playing with stones can be traced back to history, when Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty served as the history of Liuzhou, he went to the northern suburbs of the "Longbi Huilan" place, picked back the Longbi stone inkstone, and gave it to his friend Liu Yuxi in GD, Liu Ai couldn't put it down, for this reason, Liu Fushi "Xie Liuzi Thick Stacked Stone Inkstone".
Now in Liuzhou, you walk on the street, you can see the green space dotted with strange stones, the halls of major hotels are placed with strange stones, and many enterprises and institutions have strange stones displayed in the doors or halls, even the famous Liugong is no exception.
In 1995, Zhang Wei and his sister built a house of more than 300 square meters on the foundation of their house and set up the first family stone museum in LZ City, Liu Shixuan.
There are thousands of professional stores in Liuzhou, and the customer flow and daily transaction volume are second to none in the country.
It has formed a huge army of strange stone industry and created a group of powerful and insightful strange stone business entrepreneurs.
There are quarrying, selling stones, buying stones, collecting stones, appreciating stones, matching, processing, packaging and transportation, intermediary and other industries related to strange stones, among which there are thousands of people who only make strange stone bases.
Jiulong didn't expect that in such a place as Liuzhou, he would play with stones to the extreme.
For him, this is like a shot in the arm, it seems that the stone is playing well, and it is not a problem to do it as a career.
With the narrator Lang Lang narrating, the two of them walked into the Bagui Strange Stone Museum, and what caught their eyes was the world of exquisite stones, with an exhibition hall of 3,000 square meters, and more than 1,000 pieces of strange stone treasures and more than 60 kinds of stones were exhibited all year round.
The narrator proudly said that this is the exhibition hall with the largest variety of stone collections in China, and there are more than 5,000 strange stones of various types of stone in the collection.
There are Dahua colored jade, the quality is like beautiful jade, colorful, Dahua Moore stone is very sculptural charm;
The line of the guest pattern stone is elegant, euphemistic, sparse and dense; Heshan painted pottery stone, the stone skin is like glaze, graceful and luxurious;
Sanjiang colored pebbles are round and soft, elegant and simple;
Tian'e stone is like the Danqing ink of the master of Chinese painting.
There are also Taihu Lake stone, Lingbi stone, the first of the four traditional famous stones, crystal clear mineral crystals, etc., which are rare and exquisite.
"Chinese Soul", "Autumn Breeze", "Delicate Rivers and Mountains", "Majestic Wind", "Colorful", "Spring Full Spirit Pond", "Desert Ancient Road", "Spring Vast Look at Jinpine", "Happy Bird", "Lion Welcome", "Qian Chang", "Soft", "Master", "Thousand Years Ancient Inkstone", "Manchu and Han Dynasty Full Seat" and so on are all treasures that have won gold medals in domestic and international strange stone exhibitions, among which "Chinese Soul" is similar to the Great Wall of China, looks like the annual ring of Chinese culture for 5,000 years, symbolizes the spirit of the Chinese nation and is the treasure of the town hall.
There are also all kinds of delicious Manchu and Han banquets, which make people salivate but can't eat them, because they are all stones. 108 "delicacies" such as white fish, salt and pepper chicken, squirrel mandarin fish, old vinegar peanuts, mille-feuille cake, and red dates are vivid, "braised eggs" are iron pill stones from Nantou, "lion heads" are stalactites of GX, and "red rice balls" are made of Canadian rhodonite.
In addition, the strange stones that look like pig's feet, bird eggs, soft-shelled turtles, mung beans and other delicacies are all made of Gobi stones.
Being in such a dazzling, exquisite world of strange stone boutiques is breathtaking, Kowloon is eye-opening, and I truly understand the saying that "Liuzhou returns without looking at stones".
The tour guide said very hard that the strange stone in Liuzhou is so extraordinary, and its production and unique natural geographical environment are inseparable.
The strange mountains and beautiful waters of the 'karst' landform in Liuzhou have been rich in strange stones and strange stones since ancient times.
According to the formation and distribution area, Liuzhou strange stones can be divided into 19 categories, such as mountain stones, water stones, soil stones, travertine stones, rocks, fossils and mixed stones.
According to its ornamentality, it can be divided into more than 100 stone species.
Among the nine major groups of known ornamental stones in Chinese mainland, except for wind stones and meteorites, almost all of the rest are produced in Liuzhou, and the strange stones produced exceed more than half of the total number of strange stones in China.
Liuzhou, known as the "Stone Capital of China", is the largest distribution center of strange stones in China and Southeast Asia, where Heshan faience stone, Dahua colored jade, Sanjiang stone and curly stone are famous at home and abroad.
The tour guide further introduced, Liuzhou strange stone market is the most prosperous, every weekend at four or five o'clock in the morning, there are hundreds of cars of strange stones transported from all directions to the MAS market, the stone from the crane slowly down, stone diggers around the side to play flashlights to appreciate the price, after dawn there are tons of strange stones are loaded into containers and shipped to all parts of China and Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other countries.
Towards the end of the visit, the beautiful narrator asked them what else they needed to know.
Mr. Peng smiled: "Your explanation today is great, thank you." Then he looked at Kowloon, "Kowloon, is there anything else you don't understand?"
"Thank you, beauty, I'm feasting my eyes, goodbye. ”
The two said goodbye to the beautiful narrator and left the museum satisfied.
On the way, Mr. Peng asked Kowloon, what do you think of Liuzhou Shidu?
Jiulong thought for a long time and tried to answer: "Liuzhou can treat the strange stones of the Hongshui River as an industry, and I think it should be inseparable from the support of the government." ”
Mr. Peng nodded: "What else?"
"There are a group of enthusiastic people, only in this way can we get the strange stone industry up.
"Anything else?" asked Mr. Peng again.
"The strange stone industry is inseparable from culture, and I think there should be a lot of talents in this area in Liuzhou." ”
Mr. Peng continued to ask, "Is there anything else?"
Jiulong thought about it, and his brain couldn't think of anything else: "Please Mr. Peng for advice." ”
Mr. Peng said: "I think there are three points: the first point, they can go out early, invite in, and expand the reputation of Liuzhou Stone Capital, the second point, the formation of Liuzhou's own unique stone appreciation culture, and there are two professional magazines sparing no effort to publicize, and the third point, there is a huge stone appreciation team and users all over the country, which is the key to the development of the market."
Mr. Peng is worthy of being a master, and Kowloon admires it and thanked him repeatedly.
However, Kowloon also had a question, what were the names of these two magazines, and he was about to ask, but Mr. Pang told Kowloon that President Liu had something to do with him, and asked Kowloon if he wanted to go with him.
Jiulong feels that today is already very troublesome to Mr. Peng, look at Mr. Peng's meaning, it is also a private matter, how can he bother, besides, he can see Mr. Liu at night, and he is not in a hurry, and now he gets "Yunlin Stone Spectrum", which is his happiest, he is also worried about Lashi, I don't know how the business is, as for the magazine, there is always time to figure it out, so I said goodbye to Mr. Peng and left.
Back in Liuzhou Strange Stone City, Lashi saw Jiulong at a glance and was very excited: "Jiulong come here, you see that my stall is empty, or your tricks work, thank you." ”
Jiulong said with a smile: "It's just a gesture, it's not my tricks, but Mr. Wang's reputation works, if there is no Mr. Wang, can your stone be sold? You should thank Mr. Wang."
"You still need to say that I have already thanked you, come here. ”
Rashi beckoned Kowloon to sit down beside him.
At this time, Mr. Wang Tianran was still sweating profusely to greet the guests, and the stones on his stall were basically not sold, in fact, it was not impossible to sell, mainly because the buyer's bid was too low to reach Mr. Wang's psychological price, so forget it.