The little phoenix is clearer than the old phoenix (highlights: Chuanshui Song)

In May 2009, at the first international symposium on stone appreciation culture and the editorial board of Fujian Stone Appreciation Album, the author took the lead in giving a speech on "Kowloon Examination". He suggested that Nine Dragons is the world's Nine Dragons, which should be collectively referred to as "Chinese Nine Dragons", and become one of the characteristic brands of China Ornamental Stone (Strange Stone), and go abroad to the world with dignity.

To this end, this paper expounds from the following aspects in order to help people with lofty ideals.

First, as one of the traditional stone species, the main purpose and significance of being named as a national ornamental stone.

We know that the history of stone appreciation culture is the history of developing and enriching the traditional stone appreciation culture. As the only carrier of traditional stone appreciation culture, traditional stone species are the result of long-term edification and cultivation of traditional stone appreciation culture and the crystallization of traditional stone appreciation culture.

The author discusses the "traditional stone species" of Jiulongbi from the aspects of chemical composition, physical properties, various forms, historical materials, literature and related evaluation of humanistic and scientific appreciation value, proven reserves of Jiulongbi, the development of stone appreciation cultural activities in Jiulongbi and the development and utilization of its resources. Nine-Dragon Wall is one of the traditional stone varieties, and it is called "China Nine-Dragon Wall". Its main uses and significance are as follows:

1. Collectivism is an important part of China's traditional cultural values. National culture and China tradition are both the cultures and traditions of the Chinese nation, and their greatest feature lies in their integration. Therefore, the traditional stone appreciation culture and its various traditional stone species not only come from a certain region (origin), but also are the precious wealth of the whole Chinese nation. Facing the mutual agitation of various stone-appreciating cultures in the world and the dual influence of the market economy, we need the understanding and support of all the people in China. Only by forming the consciousness of the whole nation can we carry it forward and occupy a place in the diversified world of stone appreciation culture.

2. Traditional stone appreciation culture is one of the regenerative sources of all emerging and higher-level stone appreciation cultures. From the social perspective, China's traditional stone appreciation culture emphasizes moral consciousness and ideal personality, and pursues the balance and harmony between people, man and nature, and individual body and mind, which has become one of the internal driving forces for national development and social progress; For the individual, it can form potential energy in the depths of the individual's mind, release and exert it directionally, keep the distance between reason and direct desire, support people's spiritual space, and guide people to surpass themselves and integrate into the whole. Traditional stone-appreciating culture, with its distinctive national characteristics and styles such as people-oriented, self-cultivation-oriented, morality-oriented, natural Taoism, harmony between man and nature, and unity of knowledge and practice, still plays an important role in strengthening national cohesion, inspiring national spirit, integrating social forces and coordinating conflicts of interests. It is a complete and unique self-cultivation culture in China, which has never been seen by any nation.

Qingyun Peak (Collection: Chen Zemin)

3. To revive, we should develop in the direction of integration and diversification. "End with this" is the root, that is, ontology; The final use, that is, external performance. The traditional stone appreciation culture lacks creativity and scale, but it lacks sufficient display. In particular, the excavation, inheritance and development of traditional stone species are not very rich and perfect, but only a handful, which is extremely disproportionate to China's title as the origin and representative of the traditional oriental stone appreciation culture. Only on the basis of traditional stone appreciation culture, fully tap the traditional stone species of past dynasties and develop in a holistic and diversified direction can the traditional stone appreciation culture and its traditional stone species overcome the crisis of decline and loss and embark on a brand-new modernization road.

Living Buddha (Collection: Wei Jiquan)

4. It is of strategic significance to enhance the self-confidence, self-esteem and self-improvement of national stone appreciation culture. The current upsurge of traditional stone appreciation culture stems from the continuous improvement of China's comprehensive national strength and the return of national self-confidence. It is the result of bringing order out of chaos in several waves of total westernization, and it is also the result of cold thinking about reality, rather than establishing the opposition and mutual slander between Chinese and Western stone appreciation cultures. Strengthening national self-esteem, self-confidence and pride is a long-term strategic task, especially in the context of the increasingly global exchange and integration of stone appreciation culture, traditional stone species have increasingly become a symbol of national stone appreciation culture's self-identity and international image. Therefore, it is increasingly urgent to comprehensively and deeply integrate the traditional stone appreciation cultural resources, including the titles of "Nine Dragons Wall in China" and "Lingbi Stone in China".

Second, Jiulongbi is rich in jade culture and an important part of Chinese jade culture.

Jade culture, which originated in the early Neolithic period and continues to this day, is a remarkable feature that distinguishes China culture from other civilizations in the world. Its long duration, rich connotation, wide scope and far-reaching influence are unmatched by many other cultures, and it has penetrated into politics, economy, religion, literature, art and other fields. The unique jade consciousness combining material, spirit and society is the great pioneering work and ideological achievement of the Chinese nation, the material basis of the essence of China traditional culture and the vivid materialization of the oriental humanistic spirit.

The mountains are full of jade and vegetation, and people hide jade and everything is prosperous. "Chinese Jade Culture" points out that "people with dense colors can be polished into tools", while "Ci Hai" records "beautiful stones with moist luster". Jade has no distinction between nobility and inferiority, but is created in nature and the condensation of heaven and earth; Jade culture is not only the culture of China, but also the culture of the world, and it is the oldest harmonious culture in the world. Jade culture, based on a variety of jade species, has become the theory of material value and the theory of cultural priceless value, seeking the intangible from the material and pursuing the earliest explanation of the intangible from the tangible; The traditional motto "Gold comes out in troubled times, jade comes out in prosperous times" is the earliest and most classic investment concept and management concept in the world.

"Dai Jin is rich, Dai Yu is safe." Ancient medical books in China said that "jade is the beauty of stone, sweet in taste and non-toxic", and that jade is the most abundant substance for human body to maintain vitality; "Dragon Materia Medica Classic" records: "Jade can remove moderate heat, moisten the heart and lungs, help the voice and throat, nourish hair, nourish the five internal organs, soothe the nerves, dredge blood vessels and clear the eyes and ears"; Ancient Europeans and Americans also believed that wearing jade could ward off evil spirits and cure diseases. However, the content of silicon dioxide, iron oxide, aluminum and diopside in Jiulong wall is high, which is comparable to that in jadeite. It belongs to "liver stone" jasper (colorful jade). Its health-preserving mechanism has been confirmed by modern science, and it contains many trace elements beneficial to human body, such as zinc, magnesium, iron, copper, selenium, chromium, manganese and cobalt. Wear and play with jade and use its products. It has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, cooling serum, nourishing skin, promoting hair growth, relaxing muscles and tendons, regulating balance, lowering blood pressure and enhancing cardiovascular function, thus achieving the health care effects of eliminating diseases, strengthening body constitution and prolonging life.

In a word, the cultural value and natural health care function of jade from Jiulong Wall are among the best ornamental stones in terms of chemical composition and physical properties. In the article "Stone Island" published in the fourth issue of 2005, the mineral content of Jiulong Wall is compared with other soft and hard jade at home and abroad in detail, and it is concluded that there are both jade deposits and natural ornamental washed stones in the jade kingdom.

Thirdly, the diverse connotation of humanistic appreciation of Nine Dragons Wall fully embodies the essence of China's stone appreciation culture.

Jiulongbi combines all the characteristics with the connotation of natural and humanistic appreciation, and it is unique in the world. Large ones can be used as garden stones, and one stone becomes a landscape, which is spectacular; Young and middle-aged people can "wander around the Qianshan Mountain in the studio and meet people of all colors on the table", especially the colors are ancient, the connotation is profound and there is no lack of jade, and the texture is rich in Chinese painting, forming a unique "Jade Culture of Jiulong Wall" with "simple atmosphere" as the main line (after repeated argumentation and research by relevant government departments, experts, scholars and insiders at home and abroad, many people of insight, the author has discussed the patterns and patterns of Jiulong Wall, It fully embodies the spiritual support and strength of the Chinese nation, embodies the unique cultural features and social psychological consciousness of the Chinese nation, and is closely related to all kinds of stone appreciation culture in China. Jiulongbi is an important part of China's stone appreciation culture (although most of the dry stones are "thin, wrinkled, leaking and penetrating").

Qionghua (Collection: Li Qun)

4. Being crowned as China is the need to look at international competition and build a brand strategy of stone appreciation culture.

Any brand must have a carrier, and any culture must have symbols. With the rise of China's culture and economy, the connotation and substantive significance of China's stone appreciation culture are increasingly prominent, and it will surely become one of the most powerful cultural brands in the world. The positioning of "Chinese Nine Dragons Wall" is not only to be worshipped, watched or sold by more people, but to stand at the height of brand strategy and support the inheritance of Nine Dragons Wall and its culture with realistic value. Its construction and development is not only the inheritance of history, but also the initiative to modernize, face the world and face the future under the pressure of competition.

First, establishing the brand awareness of ornamental stones (strange stones) is an important measure to inherit and carry forward China's traditional stone appreciation culture. China's traditional stone appreciation culture and its various traditional stone species have been handed down from generation to generation, and even influenced other countries and regions in the world, becoming the representative of ancient oriental stone appreciation culture. One of the important reasons is that it has strong inheritance, continuity, inclusiveness and permeability. The culture of any era is inseparable from the scientific inheritance of cultural traditions, and it is impossible and not allowed for any culture to abandon its own excellent traditions and start from scratch. With the globalization of the world economy, international communication has become closer and more complicated, and it is urgent to vigorously promote these stone appreciation cultures that once led the world's development. Today, it is of great significance for developing advanced culture and building a harmonious society to excavate and make full use of traditional stone species that still have strong vitality in traditional stone appreciation culture, including Jiulongbi, and to build brand awareness.

Second, the brand building of ornamental stones (strange stones) is a strategic task to promote the development of stone appreciation culture in China. Ornamental stone brand industry is the development and carrier of ornamental stone culture. Stone appreciation culture is a prosperous culture. With the development of social economy and the gradual maturity of the market for ornamental stones (strange stones), the position of stone-appreciating culture as one of human spiritual needs is becoming more and more prominent, and the cultural carrying capacity including scientific and technological strength is becoming more and more diversified. How to achieve comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development, give full play to their respective characteristics and advantages, and develop and develop ornamental stones (strange stones) pragmatically, flexibly and vigorously to become industrial brands is the inevitable result of the historical development of the whole stone-appreciating culture and the unshirkable mission of contemporary mankind.

Thirdly, the development of stone appreciation culture industrialization in Jiulongbi shows that Jiulongbi has fully possessed the brand advantage with international competitiveness. The development of stone appreciation cultural industry in Jiulongbi is not only a matter of collection and appreciation, but also presents a brand-new atmosphere, gradually establishes the regional environment of cultural industry, and comprehensively embodies the cultural, economic and natural environmental protection characteristics that adapt to the new changes in the collection and appreciation structure of contemporary ornamental stones (strange stones) and new aesthetic needs.

(1) The ancient traditional stone has regained its luster and gained fame. Since 1998, it has been rated as the first batch of famous and special stones in China by China Stone Industry Association, and was selected as one of the top ten candidate stones in China in 2000. It is also known as "Bamin Stone" in Fujian Province. There are countless gold, silver and bronze awards in hundreds of exhibitions held in China and even in various provinces and cities, especially in the "China Ornamental Stone Expo-2007 Beijing Invitational Exhibition for Entering the Olympics", 2 pieces of ornamental stone (strange stone) from Jiulongbi1piece were exhibited, and 12 pieces won the gold, silver and bronze awards respectively, which became the awards in the whole exhibition.

(2) present a new development combination and create a regional environment for cultural industries. Social academic groups based on Jiulongbi have been set up all over Fujian Province. In Fujian Province, various strange stone cultural cities, strange stone villages, strange stone streets, strange stone museums, strange stone trading markets and individual strange stone museums abound. Among them, Zhangzhou Tianfu Garden, which covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters, has become the largest trading platform in China (with boutique exhibition halls, auction halls, trading halls, etc.). ), and the Huaan Kistler Trading Center under construction, with a total investment of 90 million and more than 300 stores. According to incomplete statistics, more than 65438+ 10,000 people in Fujian Province have participated in the collection and enjoyed the Nine Dragons Wall. The annual output value is more than 1 100 million yuan, and the products are exported at home and abroad, which promotes the development of tourism, catering and transportation industries.

There is no limit to learning the sea (Collection: Zheng Yiping)

(3) The promotion and development of the Nine Dragons Wall has been widely and comprehensively radiated at home and abroad. In 1980s, the famous writer Haidi wrote about the Jiulong Wall and the valley of Hua 'an: "Stones hidden under the blue waves of Jiulong River for millions of years" and "caused a sensation among tourists." 1990, after the Dragon Wall was exhibited at the Beijing1/Asian Games Art Festival, stone friends and stone merchants from the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Germany, Hongkong, Taiwan Province and other places began to visit and buy one after another, and the craze began. In May, 2004, two Korean businessmen went to Zhangzhou to buy three containers of ornamental stones (strange stones) of Jiulong Wall, with a total value of more than 600,000 yuan, which was the highest in the circulation history of Jiulong Wall in Zhangzhou. Later, a boss surnamed Park in South Korea spent 240,000 yuan to buy a beautiful stone, which was selected for the cover of the magazine Aishi in South Korea, causing a sensation in the Korean stone industry. Since then, many Korean stone dealers have worked hard to learn Chinese conversation in order to communicate with local stone friends and farmers, which has become a spectacle.

Nowadays, there are various stone exhibitions and cultural discussions at the Nine Dragon Wall, and stone lovers at home and abroad are in an endless stream. The Jiulongbi Stone Festival has also been upgraded to a cross-strait stone festival.

(4) The development and utilization of Jiulong Wall has shown infinite prospects. At the beginning of 2000, China Gemstone Association convened nearly 100 gemmological experts from various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and held a seminar and recommendation meeting on national stone in China. The basic principle of recommending national stone determined at this meeting is: stone is beautiful, and its products are more beautiful. It has a long history in China and has broad development prospects. There are more than 300 processing and operating enterprises in Jiulongbi, and more than 200 kinds of products have been developed, such as carving crafts, high-grade antique furniture, high-grade decorative boards, sanitary ware and health care practical products. The total investment of the processing exhibition area project is 260 million yuan, and the products sell well at home and abroad, with an annual output value of nearly 400 million yuan.

Among them, carving jade Kirin with Jiulong wall fills the blank of making jade carving of Kirin with jade materials at home and abroad; In 2006, HaiTong Xu, a master of arts and crafts and a micro-carving artist in Fujian Province, successfully created a micro-carving on the Nine Dragon Wall. Selected Works of Mao Zedong (new edition, 1 ~ 4 volumes, 1.072 million words) and other works have been successively collected by the China History Museum, and have been praised by the micro-carving art world as a symbol of breaking the hard problem of jade micro-carving.

Five, dubbed the title of China, in line with the system of scientific and standardized national naming principles.

There are quite a variety of mineral resources in Fujian Province, and various minerals 133 have been discovered, accounting for 77.8% of the total discovered minerals in China (tungsten ranks second in the country, gold ranks third in the country, and building stone processing and export ranks first in the country). Among the top five 14 minerals in China, Jiulongbi, pyrophyllite and sapphire are among them.

Then, is Jiulong Wall also produced in other places outside Fujian Province? Limited by space, the following is only a brief discussion based on the relevant main documents (see the author's humble book "A Preliminary Study on the Possibility of Nine Dragons Wall Outside Fujian Province" for details):

First of all, the close similarity of the geological tectonic domain in the southeast of China provides a relative geological basis for the existence of Jiulongbi in this area. Southeast China refers to the coastal areas of Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi (hereinafter referred to as Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi), which is located at the junction of the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate. Since the Indosinian Movement, the intraplate tectonic evolution is complex and diverse, but it has close similarity:

Guanyin in White (Collection: Jiang Qimiao)

(1) Mesozoic volcanic rocks and related intrusive rocks are widely distributed in this area, covering an area of about 500,000 square kilometers, with rich minerals and distinct mineralization. The temporal and spatial distribution of the deposit is related to the transformation of tectonic stress field, multi-stage magmatism and sedimentation.

(2) The geochemical characteristics of late Mesozoic basic dikes in Fujian Province are the result of subduction of the Pacific plate and slow crustal interaction, which indicates that Fujian Province and southeastern China have similar crustal extension periods. The temporal and spatial distribution and ore-forming evolution of Mesozoic deposits in southeastern China are obviously restricted by regional tectonic stress, magmatism, ore-bearing strata and ore-bearing characteristics of rocks.

Winter melon is ripe (collection: Chuanshui Song)

(3) Southwest Fujian is a typical area where the Tethys tectonic domain is transformed into the continental margin tectonic domain around the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, taking southwest Fujian as an example, the southwestern Fujian depression belt and its periphery, an important tectonic metallogenic unit in China, are systematically studied. The results show that the metallogenic age of the southeastern coastal metallogenic belt is closely related to the formation and evolution of Cathaysian ancient land, the transformation of Tethys to Pacific Rim tectonic metallogenic domain, and the tectonic activities of the eastern continental margin of China in Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The study of mineralization and mineralization age shows that with the transformation of tectonic domain, there should be an important polymetallic mineralization in the southeast continent from late Indosinian to early Yanshan.

Longshoutao (Collection: Yang Guangpin)

Secondly, the wide distribution of Triassic marine sedimentary strata in South China provides a prospect for the possibility of Jiulongbi in this area. Jiulongbi is a sedimentary metamorphic rock, which was deposited from Late Permian to Early Triassic about 240 million years ago (Indosinian period of crustal movement) and formed in the middle and late Jurassic (Yanshan movement) 65.438+500 million years ago. South China has the most widely distributed Permian-Triassic marine continuous strata in the world. Of course, Jiulongbi experienced hydrothermal metamorphism under the secondary hot-pressing transformation, forming today's low-green schist, sub-green schist, low amphibole, amphibole and so on, and the formation conditions are very complicated. Some geologists believe that Triassic marine sedimentary rocks in South China have not deteriorated. Several geology professors, scholars and local experts wrote decades ago that only Hua' an County produces Jiulong Wall. Later, it was confirmed by many stone friends that zhangping city is also one of the main producing areas. Later, it was discovered that Nanjing and Changtai in Zhangzhou City, Changting, Liancheng, Shanghang and Yong 'an in Sanming City in Longyan City were also produced. With the progress of science and technology and the test of practice, there may be new discoveries in relevant areas of South China.

Through on-the-spot investigation and preliminary exploration with You's family such as Chen Jianghua in Zhangping, Fujian and Shijingling in Chenzhou, Hunan, the author found that there are rocks with similar shapes, colors, textures and pictures to those in Jiulongbi, Guangdong, Dayu, Jiangxi and Chenzhou, Hunan, and the Mohs hardness is generally between 6-7.5 degrees (looking forward to further investigation and identification by relevant authorities).

To sum up, the title of "China Nine Dragons" is well deserved, which is also conducive to correcting the chaotic naming status quo lacking objective science. If it can be determined that there are producing areas in other provinces, we can refer to the principle of "follow history, name first, established and produced regional name+stone species" in the naming principle of ornamental stone varieties of China Ornamental Stone Association, and add producing provinces after "China Jiulongbi", such as "China Jiulongbi (Fujian)" and "China Jiulongbi (Jiangxi)".

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