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On March 8, the aboriginal cross-strait cultural exchanges Shoushan Stone Exhibition opened at the Beijing Golden Resources Shopping Mall, and will endure till April 8. More than 300 pieces of carved works on show, including assorted kinds of seals and crafts, accord collectors an eye-opener. The works cover abstraction plan Painting Scroll, which took four humans over ten years to carve; an 18 bags Shoushan rock from the Jiangjun Cave called Furong King; Shui Dong Gao Shan, account at atomic several hundred millions.
Shoushan stone, called for Shoushan apple in Fuzhou city, is characterized by its accomplished texture, multi-color hues and carve ability, and is important in the history of rock ability in China. Famous for its adorableness and craft-friendly quality, Shoushan rock is like a heaven-given actual for the adeptness of Chinese carvers of abounding generations. It is not exaggerating to say that Shoushan rock is one of the brightest chaplet in the Chinese cultural treasury.
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| 18 bags Shoushan rock from the Jiangjun Cave called Furong King |
Formation and Categories of Shoushan Stone
Chinese fable says that afterwards finishing acclimation heaven, the goddess Nuwa hid the bare bewitched actual beneath Shoushan mountain, appropriately admirable stones can be begin there. Scientifically speaking, Shoushan rock is an amalgate and belongs to the pinite family. In the Mesozoic era (251 to 65.5 actor years ago), there were abounding agitable eruptions in the across of Fujian Province, abrogation lots of agitable rock, and Shoushan rock was formed in this way.
