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What Kinds of viewing stone in the Yangtze River |
The Yangtze River, is the mother river of Chinese people, it 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 square kilometers.
Viewing stone of Sichuan, Yunnan and Chongqing in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, is one of the important brand in viewing stones families of China, as well as the most representative suiseki kind of the river cobbles.
According to the appreciate characteristic of the Yangtze River
vieiwing stone, it can be classified to a lot of types, such as
landscape, embossment, shape, colorful, texture, etc.
The landscape mainly represent kind and largest produced
and the most essence in the Yangtze River viewing stone. According
to the characteristic of content the landscape suiseki, there are
scenery type, 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, than
there are 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 suiseki is the kind of unique and rare in the Yangtze
River viewing stone. Due to the rock is distributed two matters
with the different hardness, and is frayed in high and low of
water falling, the surface of the suseok form resembling the embossed
texture of hand-carving, completely nature, the pattern is rich
and simple withstanding look.
The shape suiseki is mainly representative kind next to the landscape
suiseki. According to their showing styles to defining, there
are two types, the ugly and the sculptural suiseki. There are five kinds in the characteristic of appreciation,
include the sight, the hieroglyphic, the imaging, the abstract, the ugly suiseki, etc. If we define
them from the themes and contents, there are kinds of the image, the animal, the implement and the abstract
suiseki, and so on. The wonderful of the shape suiseki of the Yangtze
River is showing sculptural beauty of personalities and animals,
they have unique charming with a combination of strength and kindness
of river cobbles.
