The stone is hard, elegant and beautiful in color.
What is even more surprising is the rock made of jade.
"Lingbi is a rare stone in the world. It sounds like bronze-colored jasper. It is beautiful and green all the time. How majestic it is when the treasure falls in the world." This is a song written by people in the Song Dynasty praising Lingbi.
The so-called Lingbi stone, also known as chime stone, is produced in Fupan Mountain, Lingbi County, Anhui Province.
It is one of my country's traditional ornamental stones and has been used as a tribute as early as the Warring States Period.
It is as black as ink, and also comes in gray black, light gray, ocher green and other colors.
The stone is hard, elegant and beautiful in color.
What is even more surprising is the rock made of jade.
"Lingbi is a rare stone in the world. It sounds like bronze-colored jasper. It is beautiful and green all the time. How majestic it is when the treasure falls in the world." This is a poem praising Lingbi in the Song Dynasty.
The beauty of Lingbi stone has been loved by celebrities in ancient and modern times, and it is still the object of collection by stone collectors.
The chimes preserved in the Forbidden City and the Confucius Temple are all made from Lingbi.
The color is like ink, the sound is like a chime
Lingbi stone is a rare thing in the world.
Lingbi stone has unique charm and is famous far and wide, leading the way in China. Countless stone enthusiasts have been fascinated by it throughout the ages. Its natural work has exerted a strong influence on the stone appreciation industry at home and abroad in ancient and modern times.
The main characteristics of Lingbi stone can be summarized as: "three strange things and five strange things".
The three strange things are strange appearance, strange sound, and strange texture. The five strange things are thin, transparent, leaky, wrinkled, and ugly.
A strange thing is color.
Black is like black jade, which can be polished into a mirror; white is as moist as mutton fat, like a ball of white clouds; the combination of colored stone red, yellow, green and blue is beautiful.
The two oddities are voices.
Just like the sound of gold and jade, there has always been a saying that the sound of gold and stone sounds.
The buckle has a sound, and it harmonizes the eight notes.
Lingbi chimes stand out among classical musical instruments and have always been loved by the royal court.
It can be made into braided chimes, hanging chimes, special chimes, fish chimes, etc.
According to the "Study Utensils Notes": "There is an old jade stone with a length of three inches and a length of more than a foot, which is all over the chime in ancient times.
There is a Lingbi stone that is black in color and hard in nature. "It's wonderful. In the hanging room, if the guest talks about human affairs, I will strike it down and wait for my ears to clear up."
From this point of view, the beautiful sound quality of Lingbi Stone is not only loved by the upper class, but also by the common people.
Three oddities are qualities.
Lingbi stone has the best hardness among all strange stones, ranging from 4 to 7, which is most conducive to long-term collection.
The quality of the stone has been determined by relevant departments and it has no radioactive substances or harmful chemical components.
In 1994, laboratory analysis by the National Building Materials Testing Center found that Lingbi stone contains more than ten trace elements that are beneficial to human health, especially strontium content as high as 0.48%, which has the effects of promoting human health and resisting The effect of cancer prolonging life.
Therefore, various handicrafts made from Lingbi stone meet the requirements of environmental protection and internationally popular green supplies, and are widely welcomed at home and abroad.
It integrates appreciation, collection, practicality, craftsmanship and health care. It is a wonder among stones that is difficult to match with other strange stones.
A strange thing is to be thin.
Thin - Slim and graceful body, solid and empty.
It is called masculinity.
As far as the stone body is concerned, it has all the edges and corners, is hard and slender, has a strong center, is not swollen or tired, and has a strong backbone.
The two monsters are Toru.
Through-holes and holes, exquisite and clear.
The stone is porous and dancing, looking up and down in various shapes.
An ancient saying goes: The stones that are exquisite and transparent are the best.
Transparent - can be used to revive the whole stone, and is also in line with the aesthetic concept of femininity and purity.
The ancient Lingbi stone "Zhonghua Peak" that still exists in the world can be said to be a typical example of the most beautiful stone.
The three monsters are leaks.
Leak - empty hole, miraculous workmanship.
If it leaks, it rains at night in the thatched house, and the willows are slightly exposed, so you can walk up and down.
You can ride on the sky ice above, and you can ground yourself down below, but leakage is feasible.
If there is leakage in the stone peak, the body will be like lotus petals, with the lips turning and spitting out cherry blossoms, with many ups and downs, sparse and clear.
There is an ancient Lingbi stone called Yu Linglong (also known as Taihu stone) in Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, which can be described as a "leak" masterpiece.
A cloud stands out suddenly, and all the orifices are enlightened. If water is poured into one hole, it will come out from all the holes. If incense is burned in one hole from below, all the holes will be filled with smoke.
Why not be surprised.
The four monsters are wrinkled.
Wrinkles - wrinkles with overlapping waves and crisscrossing petrosal sinuses.
Image outside the wrinkled stone.
Its curves are steep and folded, dense and continuous, undulating and loose, the yin and yang are straight and the back is straight, and the stone skin is wrinkled.
The wrinkles of Lingbi Stone are like an ax chopping thousands of feet; like waves and layers of snow; like spring breeze blowing on blue water and rolling microwaves; the stone skin is like linen, with thousands of threads.
The "wrinkle" is really strange.
The five strange things are ugly.
Ugliness - the most ugly is beautiful, the most beautiful is ugly.
Ugly yet majestic, ugly yet beautiful. At first glance, it looks strange and ugly, but in fact it is delicate and beautiful.
Ugliness is natural, and the aesthetic concept of returning to simplicity is the highest taste of stone appreciation culture.
In short, the thin ones of Lingbi Stone are strong and strong, the transparent ones are ups and downs, the leaky ones are smooth, the wrinkled ones are like rivers and rivers, and the ugly ones hide beauty but are not ugly.
Lingbi stone can be said to be one stone for one scene, one stone for one thing, one stone for one sky and one earth, one stone for one world.
The shape is grand, there is virtuality in reality, reality in virtuality, virtuality in reality, beauty and beauty.
Unique charm
Lingbi stone has unique charms:
First, no matter the size, it is naturally formed in various shapes, and has the characteristics of "wrinkles, The essential elements of "thin, leaky, and transparent" have a far-reaching artistic conception;
Secondly, the skin of Lingbi stone is often rugged and intertwined with ravines, rough and majestic, with ancient charm, rich texture and full charm.
Third, the colors are mainly black, brown, and gray, with white, dark red, multicolored, black and white... not only colorful but also colorful.
The fourth is the sound quality of "jade vibrating golden sound". With a light tap or a slight buckle, it can produce a clang sound with a long aftertaste.
Lingbi stone has four unique aspects of beauty,
Firmness and beauty
Firmness is the main characteristic of the stone, and it is also the primary condition for stone donation.
Strange stones with low hardness are easily weathered and eroded. Although they have good shapes, they cannot remain eternal and lose their collection value.
Therefore, although a strange stone has many unique conditions such as shape, texture, color, etc., due to its low hardness, it cannot be included in the forest of strange stones, let alone become a fine product.
Lingbi stone is generally between 6 and 7 degrees Celsius, with higher preservation than other stones. It has a dense texture, pure quality, solidity, weight and warmth.
Its steadfastness is the best among offering stones.
Beautiful shape
Stone is the oldest ancient object in the world. It has gone through the folds, fractures, rolling pressure of the intense orogeny during the chaotic period of the universe, and hundreds of millions of years of weathering, rain, and water. Under the natural carvings of internal and external forces such as soil erosion, twisting and splitting, removing softness and leaving hardness, holes and ravines, undulating mountains, and tangles, various shapes are formed, which are strange, naturally interesting, unique, rare, expensive and difficult. Begging for art.
Due to its unique natural conditions, Lingbi Stone has formed solid green natural sculptures with unique shapes.
When people walk into the mountains to search for rocks, they will see before their eyes mountains and caves, exquisitely carved, strange and dark-colored (mountain) rocks. , you will also find among the many strange stones, there are scales, horns, swimmers, soarers, scorpions, crickets, immortals, beauties, Bodhisattvas, and wise men, lying or standing, dancing or dancing, and so on. Metaphor.
The wonder of Lingbi Stone lies in its ingenious shape, neat posture, sculptural shape, and natural interest.
Although it is as big as a palm, it can contain the images of all things; although it is as small as a fist, it can contain the beauty of thousands of rocks. There is indeed an artistic conception of "Looking at the smoke and clouds, three mountains and beyond, they are all in the palm of Lingfeng" .
Large Lingbi stones are several feet high and wide, and can be placed in gardens and courtyards. They are based on mountains, with peaks, caves and ravines, and crags as ingenious as Linhuadai.
The middle ones can be used as hill steps, river steps, pond wave bank stones, and lawn scattered stones.
The small ones can be used in halls and restaurants, or decorated with bonsais and zodiac-shaped objects, which are full of fun.
Sitting across from each other in leisure time, with a cup of clear tea, the spirit is attracted to it, the rhythm of poems and songs, the rhyme of music and painting, curling around the side, suddenly clearing up thoughts, bringing people into another realm, and being cultivated by beauty.
The beauty of stone skin
The beauty of stone is given special attention to.
The stone skin of Lingbi is rugged, with intertwined ravines and caves. It is rough and majestic, with ancient charm and the beauty of the vicissitudes of history.
Common textures on Lingbi stone leather include walnut pattern, dense jujube pattern, chicken claw pattern, sword mark, marble nest, mushroom head, bark crack, yellow sand pattern, stride pattern, lotus dew, The breasts, skirt folds, crepe belts, water channels, lying sand, Venus, jade veins, red veins, crab claws, as well as through holes and half holes are intertwined and tangled, and the holes are subtle.
It has both the original flavor and the rhythm of music.
The longer it is exposed to the ground, the more ancient and primitive it becomes.
The skin surface of Lingbi Stone is also round and greasy, as smooth as gelatin, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
If you play with and rub this kind of stone, the longer it becomes, the better it will be. The rice qi will disappear, it will be gentle and elegant, and full of charm.
Beautiful sound
Lingbi stone is fine in texture and as solid as jade. When it is clasped and brushed, the sound (Wang Zheng) is like a cong, and the aftertaste is long, with the "sound of jade vibrating gold" Good name.
Therefore, the ancients also called Lingbi Stone the "Eight Sound Stone".
The meaning of "Eight Sounds" is taken from the name of "Eight Sounds" in Buddhist scriptures.
The Buddhist scriptures say that Tathagata Buddha’s Dharma is vast, and he uses his unique eight kinds of extremely beautiful sounds to influence the lives of everyone.
The ancients named it after "eight tones", praising the beautiful spiritual stone that has the nature of Buddha.
Monographs on stone and experts and scholars who have evaluated Lingbi Stone in the past dynasties have also regarded Lingbi Stone's "clearer and clearer sound" as its outstanding feature and greatly praised it.
Lingbi stone has extremely high ornamental value and is rich in extremely high aesthetic connotation, so it has the most collection value.
Therefore, there is a saying that "gold is easy to get, but precious jade is hard to find".
Because "one stone in life" has been the prayer target of Lingbi stones for stone addicts throughout the ages.
The vast and round universe contains great meanings. It is believed that Lingbi Stone has unique spirituality and is the most legendary and mysterious creation of chaos in the universe.
Lingbi stone is unique in the world, unique in the world, rare and hard to find in the world, so it is of great value. It can be said to be the most beautiful jade and a national treasure.
Lingbi, Lingbi! Fortunately.