Japanese Suiseki and Chinese Viewing Stone

Landscape stone is one kind of viewing stones, also known as suiseki, specifically refer to the stone that reduced scale and with the emotion of mountain and water in landscape stone. It rises in China, matured in Japan, and being a popular fashion in many countries now, specially in Japan, China, Korea, California of the United States and Czech Republic, have a lot of people to appreciate suiseki.

In recent years, to be affected with Japan, many Chinese first collect and a

ppreciate suiseki, but many of them not call it suiseki, in fact they are in the same origin. They had get idea and imaging from suiseki, as the base is founded for we develop a great deal of new and varied suiseki. It is amazing if no influence by suiseki, when viewing stone in Chinese culture" crumple, lean, leak and transparence" to "shape, color, texture and vein".

In Chinese market, Liuzhou's water stone, Fujian's Jiulongbi stone, or other new kind of stone, there is landscape stone in them, it takes a different approach, once it has its own natural fascination and appreciation in character, so it was included in landscape stone. With the culture of suiseki appreciation is increasing common, people's sense is changing, more people are now beginning to focus on a whole from both landscape and picture stone, and formed a new kind of suiseki, such as landscape stone with shape, there are pictures in its shape, as well as we can see the shape from the outer contour of its picture. It is the perfect combination of shape and picture, and increasing a savor and an artistic expression on a suiseki. Although it is not a standard defining to suiseki, but it can truly reflect mountains and waters in character of home, in conformity with the actual development of China's Viewing Stones.

Even so, we can't deny the essence of suiseki, one advantage of suiseki is that stress its formal beauty, the need for the formal beauty is a great contribution to promote the development of international suiseki appreciation. Due to it is too concern with the form, so brought some limitation on the development of suiseki appreciation.

According to Golden Proportion Japanese suiseki is strict requirement for the form distribution of mountain shape stone, this will be a complete art to beautiful natural stone, obviously, try to importune and change natural phenomena seems is rather a tall order. Now in the market someone has carved the stone by hand to get beautiful picture, I thought it was lack to understand the natural beauty. Had great variety of the beauty, if we

measure every suiseki under standard defining, to result that landscape stone and mountain shape stone would be eliminated from standard stone. If we can't change that in Chinese, meaning we will stop our step on suiseki appreciation. We have no objection to get more high quality suiseki, going after the perfection that is human nature, but we won't be perfect, when we give up some irrational formalism, making formalism is in the organic integration with its content, so people would found more beauty on suiseki, really getting a more spacious perspective to suiseki appreciation.

The newest generation of landscape stone in China, using for reference the natural beauty and the form beauty of Japanese suiseki, and creating new the aesthetic concept. landscape stone must strive for integration of form and content, not only single cold tone of suiseki, also need rich warm color tone of Dahua stone of guangxi and having both form and veins of the Three Gorge stone in character. Through a certain depth of hue and a magnificent picture, suiseki is full extent and multi-view to show vast and beautiful mountain and water.

Article by Zoushunju