1, visual inspection: mainly appreciate the shape, color, texture, size, etc. The strange stone, and through visual inspection, has a good visual impression on the strange stone, which makes people have a pleasing feeling of love at first sight.
2. Handwriting: Just hold it in your hand and enjoy it. Rubbing strange stones repeatedly for a long time can find out the characteristics of stones such as roughness, hardness, brittleness and weight.
3. Nose: Some of the real Taishan stones have a history of nearly 4.5 billion years, the same age as the region. The youngest is in tens of millions of years, so the smell of Taishan mountain soil grass is completely immersed in it, and there is a strong Taishan flavor after wet water, which is incomparable to those young mountains with millions or even hundreds of thousands of years, and it is impossible at all.
4. Ear identification: its quality can be heard by its acoustic measurement, and Taishan stone has less luster; Not too strange shape, generally no metallic sound and dull sound. But at present, I only have a Taishan stone called "iron stone" or "steel stone", which has a metallic sound similar to Lingbi stone.
5. Mind Guide: This is the ultimate destination and the highest realm of stone appreciation in Mount Tai. When you learn from the heart, you can form a unique understanding of Taishan stone and reach the realm of forgetting yourself. Through association and imagination, we often substitute stone for stone to achieve the unity of subject and object, and then understand the philosophy of life.
For many strange stones, appreciation is the only value. Taishan stone is an exception. Taishan stone is not only to satisfy the aesthetic concept, but also has important feng shui significance. Therefore, judging whether a piece of Taishan stone has real collection value is not only to see whether it has aesthetic value. The strange stone in Mount Tai should belong to the art category, but it has been basically rejected by the art market so far. Therefore, Taishan stone is different from ordinary commodities and recognized artworks such as antiques and jade articles, because the value of the latter is generally recognized through historical accumulation, which is the use value and exchange value. The archaeological value of antiques is also the use value. Antiques have cultural value, but their cultural value is different from other strange stones. What is culture? Historians say: for example, an undeveloped mountain is called nature, and digging a hole in the mountain is called culture. So culture is "humanization".
Taishan stone is valuable for collection, and it is generally better to have auspicious meanings. Artistic conception is composed of all images and colors. The soul of Taishan stone lies in color, quality and image, which is a beautiful artistic realm and an artistic beauty. To appreciate this kind of beauty, we should integrate aesthetic experience and personality interest, that is, what I forgot in the realm of stone appreciation is as wonderful as the artistic conception in poetry. Artistic conception is a whole, like a unit that can achieve artistic conception, and artistic conception can also be born of color and quality. For example, you can see three images of trees, rivers and fallen leaves on a stone, and then combine TINT to form an artistic conception with a specific seasonal atmosphere.
The strange stones of Mount Tai are mainly distributed in Dongxi, Xixi, Mata and Xiagang canyons at the eastern foot, and the valleys around the mountains around the main peak of Mount Tai, especially the Taohuayuan Canyon in the west of the main peak. The strange stones in Mount Tai feel thicker and steeper because they are mixed with some rocks, not just pebbles. The composition is mainly colorful patterns and landscape trees. The pebbles in Jinan are mainly washed stones with delicate texture, and the pictures are mostly people and animals. The best products in Taishan stone are mostly washed.
The main characteristics of Taishan stone are masculine and unrestrained spirit and hard texture. Because of its natural patterns and shapes, it is collected by many strange stone lovers. Taishan strange stone is a natural block stone, with simple pier thickness, sub-angular shape, mud garden shape, irregular oval shape, mainly with patterns; The color tone is calm, dignified and vigorous, which appears in transparent and semi-transparent pictures. On the stone surface with gray, gray-black, gray-green, shallow river, indigo, yellow, brown, black and other colors, various white textures are intertwined, or convex or concave, forming alpine waterfalls, dead branches of ancient trees, birds and animals, romantic figures and other patterns. Smooth and shiny, balanced composition, clear and vivid, each with its own miraculous effect. Most of the colors are black and white, with lofty and elegant ink paintings and clever red or yellow decorations. Taishan stone has good patterns and prominent stone tendons. The white lines that make up the picture can be divided into stone ribs and stone skins. Due to the different hardness of stone reinforcement and stone body, after thousands of years of weathering and sharpening, stone reinforcement gradually protrudes from the stone surface and has a sense of relief.