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Viewing Stones, Suiseki, Nature River Stones.
The Yangtze River, is the mother river of Chinese people, there
are many well-known viewing stones, also known as suiseki, scholar's rocks, spirit
stones, suseok. The Yangtze River originated on the north
of Tanghla mountain, Yushu county, Qinghai province. It is running
across ten provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities-Tibet,
Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu,
Shanghai, from west to east, eventually emptying into the sea. The
Yangtze River measures about 6300 km long, there are more than 700
tributaries along into it, with a total drainage area of 1.80 million
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Viewing stones
of Sichuan, Yunnan and Chongqing in the upper reaches of the
Yangtze River, is one of the important brand in the viewing stones families
of China, as well as the most representative in viewing stones.
According to the characteristic of viewing stone appreciation
of the Yangtze River, it can be classified
to a lot of types, such as landscape stone, embossment stone, shape
stone, colorful stone, texture stone, etc.
The landscape stone mainly represent kind and largest produced and
the most essence in the Yangtze River viewing stones.
According the characteristic of landscape stone's content, there are the kinds of scenery, personality, plants, the sun and the moon, abstract, character, color and veins, and so on.
According to the ways of its expression, there are photos, traditional
Chinese painting, canvas, wall painting, shadow puppet, Chinese
brick, water-ink painting, inlaid, shape painting, and so on.
If according to its contents of the theme to fractionize, then there
are the great man and mysterious scholar, Taoist and fairy, flower-bird
and insect-fish, famous mountains and fairyland, plum blossom and
orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, horoscope and auspicious animals,
various contents and theme, are beyond power of expression.
The Embossed stone is the unique and rare kind in the Yangtze River viewing stones. Due to the rock is
distributed two matters with the different hardness,
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is frayed in high and low of water falling, the surface of stone form
resembling the embossed texture of hand-carving, completely nature,
the pattern is rich and simple withstanding look. More |
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Exhibitions, Associations, Museums
In
China, there are many Chinese scholars stones of the Yangtze River exhibitions
and community activities one year, these activities are being helpful people
to know and leaning how to collect and apprecite natural stones. During viewing
stones are displayed, people can touch it closely first.
As an important branch of the viewing stones (people also name qishi,
spirit stone, scholars rocks, ornamental stones, eternal stone,
bonsai stones, garden stones, rare stones, lingbi rocks, taihu stones, suseok, etc),
the Yangtze River viewing stone became widely popular in many countris on its unique style and cultural meaning. More |
Viewing Stone Appreciation
Thread is moving in my tender mother's hand. In order to
give her son to wear the clothes who left.
With her whole heart she's sewing and sewing.
For fear I'll e'er be roving and roving.
Who says the little soul of grass waving.
Could for the warmth repay the sun of spring.
A thing of beauty, first it should be natural;
A art of beauty, it is conjoint with life, and
be discovered. Throughout the ages, from the past to
present, there are many poets and scholars drank in
the wondering of the Yangtze River scholar stones,
the past celebrities made peculiar intimacy in longevity
stones, their aesthetic opinion was good like tides,
never be ended intonate. Who a famous ancient poet called
Lipo that was born in Tang dynasty, china, he has ever
written a lot of poems in whole his life, of one poem
just describing the emotion of the people was missing
his mother far away from hometown. More |
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The formation of suiseki
Suiseki is an important class in Chinese viewing stone, large quantity and varied. When running water ladens with mud and sand, a process that rock was wore and moved, we call it Water Erosion Action. It is related with strong or weak of water erosion action, and the flow, velocity of water stream, and jumbled fluid medium--particle size of sand in water.
Under mechanical and physical action, water erosion action is divided into two types, wear erosion and roll erosion. Wear erosion is water with mud and sand strike and wear a relatively suiseki, this type of suiseki is common in near the parent rock or original place. Stone presents the most are irregular circular and huge shape, such as Guangxi Dahua stone, Duan stone.
Roll erosion is the rock of under water, the process that by move action of running water, rock slides, roll, jump and striking between rocks and rocks. After a long rolling action, rock lost itself edges, became a round, oval, or flat shape. Roll erosion action is the major cause of suiseki, especially river pebble, such as Yangtze river stone, Huanghe stone, Rain flower stone, Jingshajiang river stone.
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