Rain flower stone is a kind of natural agate stone, also known as aragonite, ornamental stone and lucky stone, which is mainly produced in Liuhe District of Nanjing and Yuetang District of Yizheng City. China Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, literati have sent their feelings to the mountains and rivers, which reached its peak in the Tang and Song Dynasties. There are countless anecdotes about stone appreciation in the history of Ya, and the magical rain flower stone has become a treasure in the stone, known as the "queen in the stone", known as a national treasure from heaven and a must in China.

The appreciation of yuhuashi pursues "artistic conception". The so-called scenery outside the scene, the painting outside the painting and the implication are all contained in the artistic conception. Regardless of poetry, painting, speech and rhyme, collectors need to have a relatively high cultural taste. Generally speaking, people who mention rain flower stones usually associate them with Yuhuatai in Nanjing, and they all think that rain flower stones are produced in Yuhuatai area. In fact, this is just a misunderstanding.

Rain flower stone is a wonderful flower in the world ornamental stone, with beautiful colors and patterns, which can be viewed. She is mainly produced in Liuhe, Nanjing, with beautiful scenery along the river. Rain flower stone is named "flower", which is beautiful and charming.

Legend:

Rain flower stone is a precious gem made of timely, chalcedony and flint or opal, also known as rain flower stone agate. According to legend, 1,400 years ago, in the Liang Dynasty, a master Guang Yun gave a lecture in the southern suburbs. When he touched the sky, flowers fell like rain, and the rain fell like stones, so he called it Rain Flower Stone. The lecture hall was renamed Yuhuatai. The idiom "soaring" comes from this legend.

According to geologists' research, rain flower stones were formed from 2.5 million years ago to 6.5438+0.5 million years ago. It is a mixture of timely, chalcedony, flint or opal, which is formed by the earth's magma spouting from the crust, leaving holes after solidification, and trickling into the rocks along the holes. The color and pattern of rain flower stones are only inclusions in the process of gradual separation and continuous precipitation of colorless transparent body silica. Appreciate the rain flower stones carefully. There are mountains and rivers, clouds, immortals, flowers, birds, insects and fish in it. They are colorful and varied. People like to put it in a water bowl and display it in the study and desk. This is an elegant thing.

From gestation to formation, yuhua stone has gone through three complicated and long stages: primary formation, secondary handling and gravel layer deposition, and it can also be said that it has become romantic after vicissitudes. Rain flower stone, natural agate, mainly produced in Liuhe District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, is the largest producer of rain flower stone in China. The produced rain flower is beautiful in stone quality, shape, grain, color, image and artistic conception, and is known as "a godsend national treasure, a must for China". Beautiful rain flower stones have been appreciated and collected by people for thousands of years. In recent years, with the revival of ancient customs, the rain flower stone has been favored by people at home and abroad, and it has become a precious gift for friends and relatives to enjoy the collection ... Rain flower stone is a unique beautiful stone in China, and it is the best among the strange stones. Speaking of rain flower stones, the first thing to take the lead is a myth about rain flower stones: it is said that there is a rain flower view on the ancient rain flower terrace, and there is a real person in it. Yuhua is dignified and wise, hidden, and rarely preaches after years of meditation, as if it were a mysterious ancient book. One day, Yuhua real person opened the altar to give lectures. The charm of personality and wisdom shocked many people and even touched the gods. In joy, the gods ordered a colorful rain. Colorful rain falls side by side, like a long scroll of Mi Fei landscape in the Palace Museum. Lingling rain knocked on the Yuhuatai, and the grains turned into agate-like rain stones.

Beautiful legend

Nanliang

A beautiful legend in the Southern Liang Dynasty asked about the origin of the rain flower stone. It is often said that there was a monk named Guang Yun in Liang Wudi in the Southern Dynasties who set up an altar to give lectures at Lion Hill (now Yuhuatai), which moved God and made it rain. After landing, it became a colorful rain flower stone, and later generations called the lecture place Yuhuatai. There are also many poems scattered in historical materials, saying that the rain flower stone is a relic of the goddess. For example, "cherish the clear spring, sometimes the sky can make it up." (Confucius sang "Liuhe Stone") "There are things in the sky, but there are not enough things. Therefore, in the past, Nuwa refined five-color stones to make up for its shortcomings. " (Warring States Liezi) Rainflower Stone is also a five-color stone. Is it a stone that fills the sky? In fact, this is all people's imagination of beautiful things, which is not sufficient. Obviously, the cause of rain flower stones is scientific, and the history of rain flower stones is longer than that of Guang Yun. The combination of Guang Yun Theory and Shi Yuhua originated from the prevailing social background of Buddhism at that time. Nowadays, times have changed. The scene of "Four hundred and eighty halls in the Southern Dynasties, with many misty rains" ("Jiangnan Spring" by Tang Du Mu) has long been annihilated by the dark clouds of history, and the myth of "Guang Yun" is still talked about by people with the continuation of the ornamental activities of yuhuashi.

Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasties

After the "Guang Yun Theory" in the Southern Song Dynasty, the historical clues of the development of Yuhua stone culture gradually became clear. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, a poem named Yuhuatai appeared in the complete works of Wang Wenzhong, a political reformer who retired to Jiangning (now Nanjing). At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Lv Xiang, assistant minister of history department, officially named Yuhuatai, which provided extremely important information and basis for studying the history of cultural development in Shi Yuhua. It was Su Shi who had a direct and far-reaching influence on stone appreciation in later generations. When he was demoted to Qi 'an (now Huangzhou City, Hubei Province), he was often in the middle of the river. "Beautiful stones and jade are indistinguishable. They are red, yellow and white, and their words are like people pointing at snails. They are smart and cute ... there are 298 pieces long, the big ones are all inches long, and the small ones are like jujube liling ... and the water injection is very awkward. " It is still of great significance to appreciate and study the rain flower stones today. And his eye for pearls and his aesthetic consciousness of being good at discovering are even more convincing to the stone industry. As Mr. Zhang Lun Yuan, a collector of rain flower stones, commented: "Su Gong, when walking in Sri Lanka, you can pull stones with only one eye and know how to pull them from the hands of ordinary people. Isn't it advanced for stone lovers? " However, although Su Gong was addicted, his income was not a spiritual rock. "However, Qi 'anshi and Yuhua Stone are of the same ancestry. No matter how they came from, it is well-deserved to call Mr. Dongpo the originator of enjoying Yuhua Stone. No wonder Feng of the dynasty also made a speech when he was admiring the rain flower stones. He wished he couldn't grow up in Jiuquan and taste the tremella with him. Luo Song, a Qing Dynasty man, admired Dongpo, went to Huangzhou to look for stones and wrote Ode to Strange Stones, so he named himself Xipo.

In the Song Dynasty, the appreciation of rain flower stones began to prevail, and gradually became a scene in the south of the Yangtze River due to the establishment of the Yuhuatai. When people go to Yuhuatai in their spare time, they can not only explore the ancient times, but also send their feelings; Return to nature, enjoy the scenery of the river, and enjoy the wild interest of the Sichuan valley; You can also enjoy life by looking for stones and treasures. In addition, the literati tried their best to express their feelings with poems and songs, which objectively improved the popularity of Yuhuatai and promoted the in-depth appreciation of Shi Yuhua. Therefore, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Wan Du, who wrote "Yunlin Stone Spectrum" in Shaoxing, involved eight kinds of Liuhe and similar stones, thus establishing the historical position of Yuhua stone in ornamental stones, which came into being at the historic moment and was a great blessing in the history of China stone. As the Marble Spectrum of Lingshan Rock in Wanshizhai said: "It is not appropriate to call Du Jiyang the first person obsessed with Lingshan Rock. Only those spiritual stones are the beauty in the stones. It started in the Song Dynasty and started in the world ... When I meet Jiyang, I will celebrate for me. " .

1260, the story of prisoner Jiang Shishi in Song Dynasty, the first year of Ding Jing in Southern Song Dynasty and the first year of unification in Yuan Dynasty. Although the former is still in a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, the general trend has gone and it is in jeopardy. The latter flourished, and the ancestor ascended the pole, wanting to tell the world. He sent Hao Jing, an academician, to the Southern Song Dynasty, but he was detained and imprisoned in Zhou Zhen (now Yizheng City) for fifteen years. So I saw the rain flower stone, fell in love with it, and wrote the Story of the River Stone for it. This record is nearly a thousand words, and it is a special article describing the rain flower stone in detail. The quality, color, shape and grain summarized by later generations have begun to take shape here. Interestingly, due to the author's special background, it is inevitable that there will be discussions. At the beginning, it is said that "one truth is isolated from all things in the mountains and rivers", and at the end of the article, it is speculated that the formation and evolution of yuhua stone, the illusion of the universe, the change of the world, and the imprisonment are also helpless. Therefore, at present, we can only splash the rain flower stone "Jigu Xinquan, sit and watch the rocks". Throughout the history of Si Tong, people like Hao Jing may be unique, right?

Jin and Yuan Dynasties

In the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, although there were no more historical materials at hand to reflect the history of the rain flower stones in the past hundred years, the story of Stones on the River can be described as a classic of this period, which is enough to show that everyone's favorite rain flower stones and even Hao Jing in adversity will "surprise, throw it into a clear spring, smoke it in a dish, and get a bright moon" (Hao Jing)

During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty

The first climax in the history of the development of Yuhuashi culture appeared in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and the context of the development of Yuhuashi culture became more and more clear and vivid. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there was an unprecedented upsurge of viewing activities in Shi Yuhua. First of all, the number of people having fun has doubled. Early ancestors in Nanjing took the rain flower stone as a symbol of wealth. In the Ming Dynasty, literati inherited the legacy of the sages and often used the display of rain flower stones as an elegant appreciation of desks. They followed suit and became a common practice, and many collectors emerged at one time. For example, Lin, the author of Suyuan Stone Spectrum, Cheng Kequan, an driver who lives in Jinling, Feng, the author of Zuishizhai, Lingmi of Liuhe County, Jiang, the author of Lingyanzi Stone Record, and "the scholars with hidden stones". (Guo Sun's "On Lingyan") even spread to the "new capital" (now Beijing), which shows that the power of this wind has attracted many players.