Liuzhou stone city

Liuzhou stone city

Liuzhou stone city, founded in October 1999, is located at 232, East Ring Road, Liuzhou City, covering an area of 30000 square meters. It is mainly engaged in the development of stone, mineral crystal, handicraft, gem, jade and stone resources. Liuzhou stone city is an international stone trading center, China stone culture exchange center and a special tourist attraction. "The sky is vast, the sea is vast, and the mountains have no desire; the land is favorable, and the people and the stones have spirit." These are two couplets of Liuzhou stone city, which have far-reaching implications. They reveal Liuzhou's unique geographical environment. The mythical stone is like a shining pearl, which adds luster to the beauty of Liuzhou. It is like a beautiful bridge, through which people can go to nature and return to nature. The stone is a window to publicize Liuzhou's history, culture and cultural landscape, and let the world know Through her, we can see a brighter future for Liuzhou.

Overview of strange stone

Liuzhou is a historical and cultural city with a history of more than 2100 years, and it is also a world-famous natural stone city in China, with the reputation of "stone capital of China"; Liuzhou is a typical karst landform, known as "a huge natural bonsai city", with beautiful stone mountains and grottoes, "the painting of pulling out the land and Qifeng", "the mountains and trees covering thousands of miles, and the river flowing like nine ileums" Beautiful portrayal of water.

There are many strange mountains and beautiful waters in Liuzhou, which naturally contains a lot of rich resources of strange stones. Since ancient times, there have been rich in strange stones and strange stones. Liuzhou region has overlapping mountains, warm and rainy climate, typical karst landform and numerous caves, which provide suitable natural conditions for the formation of various rocks. The wave impact of the ancient Liujiang River, Hongshui River and its tributaries is also the factor that produces all kinds of water stones. Liuzhou stone, now known all over the world, is a unique masterpiece of nature.

Introduction to Qishi City

Liuzhou stone city has unique architectural style and complete functions. There are more than 600 stone facades, large-scale mineral crystal exhibition and sales hall, seating center, stone professional website, as well as supporting accommodation, transportation, large parking and other auxiliary facilities in the city. It is an international stone trading center, stone culture exchange center, and a characteristic tourist attraction. Qishi city project is listed as the key tourism project of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region from 1999 to 2003, and is listed as one of the top ten tourism products in the recent key implementation plan of Guangxi tourism industry development master plan. The completion and opening of Liuzhou stone city has made great contributions to the successful holding of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth Liuzhou International Stone festivals by Liuzhou municipal government. At the same time, the first, second and third national mineral crystal exhibitions have been successfully held. In 2008, Liuzhou Qishi city won the title of "China ornamental stone base" awarded by China Ornamental Stone Association. In 2009, Liuzhou Qishi city won the honorary award of "annual market" of China collection magazine. After several years of cultivation, the market has become more and more famous, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign businessmen and tourism teams to visit and trade. Liuzhou Qishi city has become one of the important places for party and government leaders to receive guests, and also a window for Liuzhou to create a national excellent tourism city.

historical origin

Liuzhou's stone appreciation culture can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty and even further. In 815 A.D., Liu Zongyuan, a great writer of the Tang Dynasty, was demoted as the governor of Liuzhou. He once toured longbi mountain in Liuzhou, and saw that the stones at the foot of longbi mountain had overlapping textures like clouds, and the stones were fine and glossy. The sound of percussion was clear, and the color was bright. Its color was pure black and light, and it was the best material for making inkstones. It was recorded in the article "records of those who can travel near Liuzhou mountains and rivers": "xunshui is as big as the wall because it is north and East. There are many beautiful stones and inkstones under it. "

Liu Zongyuan collected some rare stones and made them into exquisite inkstones, which he gave to Liu Yuxi, a close friend in Lianzhou, Guangdong Province. After Liu Yuxi got the inkstone, he couldn't put it down. In Xie Liuzi Hou Ji Dieshi inkstone, he gave thanks and highly praised "longbi Liu inkstone": "when I was at the same time, I felt out of group. Qingyue knocks on the cold jade, and the uneven green clouds are stacked

Liu Zongyuan's "Xiushi" is the unique stone of Liuzhou. His appraisal is regarded as a precious record of Liuzhou stone playing, which provides a valuable historical basis for future generations. It was not until more than 1000 years later that Liuzhou stone admirers put forward the appraisal concepts of shape, quality, color, pattern and sound. Liuzhou stone is famous all over the world, which has a long history with Liu Zongyuan's excellent comments.

Stone culture

Liuzhou stone culture has become an extremely unique taste and an important element of creating Liuzhou City business card. In China, Liuzhou was the first to have a large-scale stone market, the first to open a stone culture exhibition hall, and the first to go out to hold a stone exhibition. There are thousands of Qishi professional stores in Liuzhou, with the largest passenger flow and daily trading volume in China. Formed a huge army of rare stone industry, created a group of strong, insightful ornamental stone business entrepreneurs. In Liuzhou, there are nearly 100000 stone lovers and thousands of professionals. Related to rare stones are quarrying, selling, buying, storing, appreciating, matching, processing, packaging and transportation, and intermediary industries. Among them, there are thousands of people who only make the base of rare stones.

Types of rare stones

According to the formation and distribution area, Liuzhou stone can be divided into more than ten categories, such as mountain stone, water stone, earth rock, cave stone, rock, fossil and mixed stone; according to its ornamental value, it can be divided into more than 100 stone types. Among the nine known groups of ornamental rocks in the mainland of China, except Fengshi and meteorite, the rest are produced in Liuzhou. Liuzhou's rare stones account for more than one-third of the total number of rare stones in China. There are thousands of kinds of rare stones, which are very beautiful. For example, Liuyan stone, with its ever-changing shape and a sense of ancient simplicity and vicissitudes, has become one of the most representative stones in Liuzhou; CaoHua stone, with its fine and simple texture, looks like landscapes, places of interest, flowers and birds, and is known as "excellent Chinese painting stone". Mr. Chen Congzhou, a famous expert in architecture and landscape architecture in China, spoke highly of Liuzhou's rare stone: "it is beautiful in its tenacity, big in its smallness, and beautiful in its cloud shadow. It is like a picture book". It has "a lot of changes, a rich color, fun to play with, and makes people reverie".

Advantages of Qishi

Liuzhou mineral crystal exhibition hall, located on the second floor of Qishi City, Liuzhou, covers an area of more than 1000 square meters. It is one of the mineral crystal exhibition halls with large scale, complete variety and large quantity in China. There are more than 200 kinds of mineral crystals on display in the museum, including fluorite, calcite, crystal and all kinds of mineral crystals. There are more than 2000 pieces of them. They are gorgeous in color, crystal clear, crystal shapes and combinations, which are very pleasing to the eye. The mineral crystal Museum has an online trade department, and its online trade function is the first in China.

Liuzhou mass stone collection, stone playing, stone appreciation, stone discussion, stone quarrying and stone trading have become a common practice. Not only hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, enterprises and institutions can see stone decoration everywhere, taking the meaning of "no stone, elegant, stone to operate", but even ordinary families also have a large number of exquisite stones, some like objects, some like people, some like traditional Chinese painting, some can't understand They just feel that they are beautiful but can't speak. They can only understand but can't speak. They have the atmosphere of "people playing with stones". As long as we talk about stone appreciation, regardless of the poor, the rich and the poor, the rich and the poor, the poor and the poor, the rich and the poor, the poor and the poor, the rich and the poor, the poor and the poor, the rich and the poor, the poor and the poor and the poor, the rich and the poor and the poor and the poor and the poor and the poor.

Classification of rare stones

It can be divided into five categories in view and application

Mount Tai stone Atlas (13 pieces)

The first is called "natural scenic rocks", such as "feilaishi" in Huangshan, "tianjingshi" in Feixian, "Shilin" in Yunnan, "luotuoshi" in Guilin, "shishishi reef" in Pingtan County, Fujian Province.

The second type is called "garden view stone", which is a kind of natural stone, such as Taihu stone, axe chop stone, Lingbi stone and so on.

The third kind is called "bonsai stone", which is used to make large, medium and small bonsai (landscape bonsai, water and drought bonsai).

The fourth category is called "stone craft", which takes some natural ornamental stones as raw materials and is mainly formed by manual processing, such as stone carvings, stone carvings, inkstones, seals, etc.

The fifth type is mainly indoor display or several cases display, independent viewing, with natural form as the element, small shape, movable, exquisite and chic, and equipped with plate, basin, seat, frame, brocade box and other accessories, with high viewing and collection value and cultural and artistic grade of stone art. This kind of ornamental stone is also the main object of this book, which belongs to the narrow category of ornamental stone. It includes various kinds of landscape stone, vivid pictograph stone, colorful pattern stone and texture stone, crystal clear mineral crystal, ancient biological fossils with ornamental value, event stone and memorial stone with research and collection value, etc., as well as natural color, pattern and pattern of exposed stone

Cutting or grinding, with a few decorative marble stone or color stone.

The ancients said: "it's not surprising that there are no rocks in the mountains, the water is not clear, the garden is not beautiful without rocks, and the room is not elegant without rocks." He also said, "appreciating the stone is pure and pleasant. Appreciating the stone is beneficial to people's intelligence. Appreciating the stone and pottery makes people enjoy the stone for a long time." Natural stone is a natural work of art, is the spirit of nature, the wonders of nature, is the precious wealth given by nature to all mankind. It is an independent landscape, a natural painting, a landscape, a poem, a stone, a heaven and a earth, drawing a picture of people's life, composing a movement of natural beauty. Ornamental stone has a variety of shapes, colorful colors and ever-changing colors

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