=Stone Culture=
Time£º2005-5-16 1:19:52

    It has passed almost 7,000 years since the beginning of the stone history. Our ancestry contribution to the world represents a shining star in the vast sea of art-the culture of stone art next to the Four Great Inventions and the Great Wall.

    Opening any history book you will immediately find out that it was in the Old Stone Age, over ten thousand years ago that stone was first used as prime- material for making tools as: knives. stone arrows .stone coins and fire making by stone colliding. History has built a deep and broad Chinese stone culture. The skillful craftsmen have come into being in large numbers throughout history. the wonderful workmanship. all leaving behind innumerable exquisite monuments to stone art. Forming a rich cultural treasury of brilliant Chinese stone skills, with numerous fascinating and moving stories and legends like the singing stones passing down. In the fast-changing world. all is changed by stone which is serving as a record of the production in different periods, telling the posterity the wisdom of our Chinese ancestry. Since the reform beginning and opening-up to the outside world, people in South Fuji an Province, inheriting the spirits of hard-working and intelligence from their ancestors and absorbing new modern technology from abroad, have found great success in combining the traditional craft with the modern creativity., connection of national traditional styles with western model arts. and blend of the romantic feelings of the western culture with the refined charm of the Eastern culture. contributing in this way to the creativity and prosperity of the Chinese stone culture. Winning it¡¯s famous title "the hometown of stone carving in China." People in South Fuji an Province. Artists in the stone art culture have been and will still be recorded in the history of human civilization. laying out a new chapter in the impressive book of the world.