1, aragonite: There are 8 ~ 9 famous mountains producing aragonite mentioned in Shan Hai Jing in the late Warring States Period. At that time, aragonite refers to the stone with beautiful texture, but its meaning is different from today's Boshan aragonite.
2. Quarrying: "Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing" says: "Quarrying refers to colored people". In the Republic of China, Zhang said in "Poetry and Elegance": "Quarrying is more with color, and extraordinary aragonite is more with lines." . Today, Taiwan Province Province is called "quarrying", which is different from the meaning in Shan Hai Jing, and refers to a kind of strange stone with wide color and capacity.
3, beautiful stone: first seen in the "Dongshan Jing" "Shan Hai Jing" cloud: "There are many beautiful stones under the Dushan Mountain". Tang Zheng Weizhong's "Ancient Stone Fu" said: "I hope to travel around the world and get beautiful stones for Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty." Su Shi said in the "Stone Sacrifice": "Today Qi 'an often introduces beautiful stones, which are difficult to distinguish from jade".
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Among many appellations of natural ornamental stones, "strange stones" are frequently used in ancient books, and are basically recognized in stone appreciation circles. Many countries in Southeast Asia, such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, also call them this way.
Today, there should always be a general title for human understanding and research on natural ornamental stones. As a general term for natural ornamental stones, "strange stones" should be natural.
In fact, the words "strange", "different" and "strange" all mean "rare and special". "Stone Sacrifice", "Wenshi", "Quarrying", "Meishi" and "Yashi" represent a limited viewing area. The objective capacity of "ornamental stone" also includes craft stone.
Nevertheless, many appellations of various times and regions are always named from some aesthetic point of view, so they have their own characteristics of personality, times and regions, which can't be replaced by anyone.