Lingbi stone has ribbed texture around the stone, which is a way to judge whether it is Lingbi stone or not. Gold rib texture is very precious and rare, especially beautiful!
(The picture is taken from the small Lingbi stone hidden by the rational cause. The lines displayed on the Lingbi stone in the picture are generally white, and the criss-crossing white lines shuttle between the muscles of the stone! The picture above shows the bottom of Lingbi stone, with ribs around the circling stone!
Lingbi stone has a long history, and it is the literati stone pursued by scholars in past dynasties. Song Huizong likes to use Lingbi stone and Taihu stone to appreciate and build landscapes!
There is a wonderful story in Water Margin that outsmarts the birth class. The flower class escorted by Yang Zhi, with exotic flowers, herbs and stones, was sent to Song Huizong Garden! They were all shipped from the far south, but in the Yellow River section, the water was so urgent that the flowers and stones were so heavy that the boats capsized and drowned. Among the strange rocks, there is Lingbi stone! It also led to the failure of Yang Zhi's life ambition. Because I lost the Huashi class and the birthday class first, I was forced step by step, and finally I could only become an outlaw and force myself to go to Liangshan!
In the early 1990s, Lingbi stone was mined again in China. After several large-scale mining in history, Lingbi stone was protected by mountain closure. After more than 20 years of exploitation of modern tools, the resources of Lingbi stone in Suzhou, the country of origin, are increasingly exhausted, and the government has begun to close mountains for protection. But there are fewer and fewer good lingbi stones, and many of them are damaged. Taiwan Province, Japan, Europe and America bought many exquisite products.
Each Lingbi stone is unique and unrepeatable, with different shapes, birds and animals, and extraordinary hieroglyphics. The Great Lingbi Stone is the most typical and famous landscape stone in China, and the Small Lingbi Stone is the most interesting literati stone in the literati study!