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---- Since end 1980s, a lot of beautiful Chinese
mineral specimens have been occurring in the
international market;
--- Collecting mineral crystals and specimens is
NOT the tradition in China, only few people
began to be interested in collecting them
recently;
-- Besides Jade and stone carvings, Chinese
people do love the natural rocks; but they treat
the stones in different ways from the Westerns.
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China has a long history in
collecting natural stones.
It started in later Zhou
Dynasty (2,600 year ago),
and began to prevail in Tang
Dynasty (1,100 years ago).
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The early stone collectors of the nature
stones includes royal family, governmental
officer, rich people, Taoists and Buddhist,
and scholars.
The collectable stones in ancient time
include colorful, unusually shaped rare
stones, and rocks that are related to believes,
holy and history events, as well as suitable
for writing-room application.
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Chinese pay special attention on shape, color, size
of the collectable stones, as well as their rareness.
They focus on a stone’s aesthetic appeal as well as
any potential links to legend, ancient events, famous
people, religions or philosophies.
In effect, the Chinese do not collect the stones
themselves; rather they collect a physical representation of
the ideas that the stones imply.
Rock collecting in China is, therefore, regarded as a
cultural endeavour.
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The first three groups can be any
attractive or strange looking stones or a
piece of rock from a remote or historic
location.
For example, a pebble or cobble
developed with graphic veins or a big
block with laminations or structure
displaying a special character or an image.
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Writing-room stones include ink
stones, used to grind inks; paper
stones used to press paper; pen
stones used to hold pens; and chop
seal stones used as signature stamps.
In fact, they are no more nature
stones, but the combination of
cutting art and stone.
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Four major types of Stamp stones
1) Shoushan-stone (agalmatolite) from Fujian.
The best Shushan-stone is “Huangtian”, known as "the
emperor of stone";
2) Qingtian-stone from Zhejiang; The best is
known as "frozen light” and “in-door blue”.
3) Changhua-stone from Zhejiang; Its best stone
is called “cock blood”
4) Balin-stone from Inner Mongolia, its best
products are “water-grass in blood”
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Ink-stones have a very long
history and a large variety in China
Ancient Chinese scholar
regarded ink-stone as their most
important writing tool.
Present days, the ink-stone is a
popular artwork and collecting item.
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----Traditional stone collection will be
continued, but the scale will reduce
gradually, because most collectable
stones can be faked and the value of
these stone are difficult to be
evaluated.
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----Chinese mineral collectors will increase very
quickly, because more people will be better
educated and western culture will be accepted by
more and more Chinese.
---- Local collectors will collect more Chinese
minerals so that fewer minerals will be exported in
near future.
---- China may begin to import mineral specimens
in future.
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