中国赏石文化溯源（Origin of Chinese stone culture）.docVIP

中国赏石文化溯源（Origin of Chinese stone culture） Origin of Chinese stone culture In a sense, a multitude of the history of human civilization, is a long and from simple to complex, from low to high stone culture history. The ancestors of human beings from the Paleolithic period using natural stones as tools, as a weapon, the Neolithic stone from the nesting period; burrowing simply the use of stone for building materials, a large number of application of modern luxury building in granite, marble decorative materials; the dead from the soil in the tombs of simple stone ornaments, later the exquisite stone carvings and precious jade crafts; all kinds of stone is always accompanied by human beings from the wild times, gradually orientation of modern civilization, until the distant future. The use of stones and their theories in ancient and modern times constituted the basic content of stone culture. In this sense, the phenomenon of stone culture is not only ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, but also shared by all mankind. Stone culture is an important branch of human stone culture phenomena, its basic content is the natural stone (rather than stone products) as the main ornamental objects, as well as the natural and ornamental stones, summed up a set of theories, principles and methods. Therefore, its development history is much younger and much later than the broad stone culture history. But due to significant differences in historical and cultural background of the East and west nation, Oriental culture and Western culture of stone stone is experienced a development path different form, its content and characteristics are also different in many ways. Generally speaking, the Oriental stone culture pays more attention to the humanistic connotation and philosophy, there are more abstract ideas and personal feelings, the ornamental body (natural stone, natural stone shape) are rich and colorful, even can be arbitrary, and Western culture stone It differs from man to man.