yuhua pebbles
Nanjing specialty, rich in Yuhuatai, Juhuatai and other places. According to research, the first-class rain flower stone is a kind of agate.
According to legend, during the Southern Dynasties in Liang Wudi, Master Guang Yun, a monk, gave a lecture at Lion Hill and was moved by the sound of rain. Rain fell into the ground and became countless pebbles as big as eggs and as small as broad beans, hence the name Yuhuashi, and Shishan was renamed Yuhuatai.
Rainflower stones are all kinds of gravel produced by Yuhuatai, which have been rounded by running water. The main components are hard rocks such as sandstone, quartzite, siliceous rock and igneous rock, as well as minerals such as quartz, chalcedony and opal. The former has no bright color; The chemical components of the latter, such as timely and chalcedony, are silica. Common colors are white, milky white and yellow. There are also red, purple, green, rose and black. There are also concentric, circular and spotted agates composed of stripes of different colors.
Some rare rain flower stones are magnificent, and the hazy transparency seems to contain mountains and rivers, clouds, flowers and birds, fish and insects, ghosts and gods, and the patterns are similar to those of Pig Bajie and the Monkey King, which are more praised by the world.
People often "raise" the rain flower stone in a basin and put it on the desk as an ornamental. Folk artists in Nanjing also cut the rain flower stones into various works of art, and nature and labor are integrated.
Legend has it that 1400 years ago, when Liang Wudi was in the Southern Dynasties, a monk named Guang Yun set up a platform to give a lecture at Lion Hill outside Nanjing Zhonghua Gate, which touched God and turned the flowers into colored stones: the lecture place was Yuhuatai, and the colored stone was Shi Yuhua. 1955, Beiyinying, Nanjing, 76 pieces of rain flower stones were unearthed from the mouth of the Neolithic deceased and put into the buried pottery jar. It can be said that our ancestors appreciated or cherished the rain flower stones more than 5,000 years ago.
Rain flower stone has established its unique position and value in the ornamental stone with its crystal-clear texture beauty, graceful modeling beauty of Zhong Ling, magnificent and dazzling color beauty, unpredictable texture beauty, incredible image beauty and natural artistic conception beauty, and is known as "God-given national treasure" and "queen in stone"!
About 430 million to 3 million years ago, the rain flower stone was bred and formed. It has gone through three complicated and long stages: primary formation, secondary handling and gravel layer deposition, so it can be said that it has been romantic after vicissitudes.
Rainflower stones are difficult to produce and collect. It is not only the combination of financial resources, eyesight, perseverance and fate, but also the collection process itself, which is also a comprehensive test for the stone collectors. How deep the man is, how deep the stone is; Stone reflects character, and character determines stone. Only the unity of man and stone is the highest realm of stone-hiding people! As far as the hardships of collection are concerned, I'm afraid only the stone collectors can understand them.
A few years ago, probably in June and July, I once went to the placer mine in Yuetang Township, Yizheng City, the origin of yuhua stone, and ran for a day without receiving a stone that I was satisfied with. Needless to say, because I ran twice in the afternoon, I forgot the time when I saw the stone and missed the return bus. I didn't take it seriously at first. I thought it was a big deal to go to the bathroom to relax, and finally I saw a bathroom. Ask again: Is there a hotel? Answer: I don't think so ... I suddenly fell into an ice hole! Poor me, wandering from 5 o'clock in the evening to near 10 in the evening, was "taken in" by a kind stone farmer. At that time, I was very moved. Although there were no tears in my eyes, my heart was still full of thoughts!
Rain flower stones are easy to get, but it is difficult to get treasures, and it is even more difficult to get fine and unique products! "There are four or two stones in a ton of yellow sand, and there is no treasure in a hundred tons of stones", which can be seen.
Nanjing Yuhuatai is famous all over the world. Most people think that yuhua stone is produced in Yuhuatai, but it is not. I have been out of Shi Yuhua before Yuhuatai; The main producing areas in Shi Yuhua are Yizheng (subordinate to Yangzhou) and Liuhe, which are adjacent to Nanjing. Its quality is particularly good in Yuetang, Qingshan and Liuhe in Yizheng. Nanjing, because of its unique historical origin and rich stone culture, is still the largest and most important distribution center and activity center of yuhua stone in China and even in the world.
Nanjing, Liuhe and Yangzhou are the hometown of rain flower stones, and more and more people love and collect them. Natural rain flower stones are different from artificial handicrafts. Due to the limitation of resources and their natural charm, their collection potential and investment value are also increasing rapidly. May the "stone queen" rain flower stones become more and more colorful.
Second, the composition of rain flower stones
yuhua pebbles
Xiao Quting, Class 5, Wenhua Road Primary School, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province
"I am a small stone, lying quietly in the mud.
I am a small stone, deeply buried in the soil.
I would like to pave a colorful road for people to meet the dawn and joy.
I would like to pave a colorful road for people to meet the dawn and joy.
Ah ... "
After reading the above, you will definitely ask: "Yi? Isn't this the theme song of the movie "Red Rain Stone"? " Yes, that's right. This song is no stranger to grade five students. Students only know singing, but who has thought about its true meaning? Think about it, there is a sentence in the word: "I would like to pave a colorful road for people to meet the dawn and joy." Only these 22 words describe the quality of rain flower stones.
Rain flower stone, it, selfless dedication. Rain flower stone, it, unknown. When I mentioned the rain flower stone, I thought a lot ... First of all, I thought of my mother, and I thought of my teacher. There are many unsung heroes who have made contributions to society. ...
Let's start with the teacher. During the day, the teacher stood for a day and gave us lectures. Manage things in the class. Some students talk in class, but have you ever thought about how hard the teacher works? Are you worthy of a teacher? When he gets off work, he must correct our homework. Some students think that teachers have too much homework and always want to play more. However, when you do your homework, maybe the teacher is correcting your homework. The teacher changes his homework day and night, but when has he ever complained? Isn't he still correcting our homework so hard?
Ah, teacher! Good teacher! Ah, teacher! Dear teacher. You feed us like a hardworking gardener, and you are as unknown as a rain flower stone! Teacher, we love you forever!
Nanjing Yuhuashi
A few days ago, my father came back from a business trip in Nanjing and brought back a beautiful box of rain flower stones.
These rainstones are very beautiful. They are a specialty of Yuhuatai Park in Nanjing. My father named Shi Yuhua because it "rained down" here in ancient times. Rain flower stone is different from other stones. Generally, stones are irregular and rough in shape, while yuhua stones are oval and smooth. Their colors are very rich, such as red, gray, yellow and so on. Their patterns are various, some are like mountains, some are like rivers, and some are like deserts. These rain stones not only look very beautiful, but also have good collection value.
Dad also told me that there are many touching stories in Yuhuatai, Nanjing. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the Japanese army carried out an appalling and inhuman massacre in Nanjing, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Nanjing citizens, but it was finally conquered by the patriotic spirit of the people of China. During the national period, Kuomintang reactionaries slaughtered hundreds of thousands of revolutionary martyrs of the * * * Party in Yuhuatai. Before they died, they shouted: Long live the Party! Finally, the Eighth Route Army of the * * * production party crossed the Zijin Mountain and Qinhuai River to defend Yuhuatai.
The moving story of Yuhuatai deeply touched me, and I prefer these beautiful rain stones. (Jin Yichuan, Class 7, Grade 3, Beijing Primary School)
yuhua pebbles
Not flowers,
It's not raining.
you are
Tangible music, silent poetry,
Flowing painting, still drama.
Macro and micro symphonies,
Abstract and concrete,
Short-term and eternal integration, future and reality depend on each other;
How many mysteries does a transparent box contain?
Volcanoes have long used roaring language,
Look at your roaring resume;
Chalcedony gives you crystals,
Give you delicious food in time,
Iron, nickel, carbon and copper also poured in,
Here are red, purple, black and green. ...
From the cry of fire to the silence of stone,
You give your soul to the river to feed.
Keywords rapids, eddies, sediments,
Wash away, ponder and sharpen.
Life goes on in a stone,
Infinity gathers in finite.
Millions of years have passed since the goddess mended the sky.
Only children with water and fire are immortal.
(Selected from China Dictionary of New Poetry in the 20th Century)
Rain flower stone is a modern poem describing the scenery. The poet is not detached from things, but objectively narrates from the perspective of a bystander. On the contrary, he used his rich imagination to melt his feelings into the concrete image of "Rain Flower Stone" and endowed it with rich emotional connotation.
In the first section, the poet entered the graceful mood from the crystal clear of the rain flower stone with pure texture, exquisite appearance, dreamy patterns and overflowing colors. That feeling filled the poet's heart, but it was difficult for ordinary descriptive language to describe the elusive beauty of the rain flower stone, so the poet upgraded the new feeling to a rational understanding, and described the concrete and tangible rain flower stone with an abstract art door: the beauty of music came from moving melody, in the poet's eyes. This perspective has artistic connotation-"the symphony of macro and micro,/the contrast between abstract and concrete,/the fusion of temporality and eternity,/the dependence of future and reality", and its unusual aesthetic feeling escapes from square inch to vast space and time, wandering freely between the two. Therefore, the poet can't help but feel deeply: How many mysteries are contained in the "transparent treasure chest" of the rain flower stone?
In the second section, the poet traces the source of his extraordinary aesthetic feeling from the passionate process of Yuhua Stone. "Volcano has seen your roaring resume in roaring language. The two "growls" show the unstoppable momentum when the rain flower stone was born, and the casting of fire gave it a hard prototype. " Chalcedony gives you crystal,/gives you exquisiteness in time,/Iron, nickel, carbon and copper also rush to come here,/gives you red, purple, black and green ... "This * * * gives the rain flower stone a wonderful appearance. Rain flower stone comes from "the cry of fire". Then I reached the second stage of my life, that is, "the silence of the stone".
The second person is used in the whole poem, which constitutes a dialogue porcelain state, harmoniously unifies thoughts and feelings, and the rain flower stone is given a brand-new meaning of life. In addition, this poem has two sentences and one rhyme, which makes the poetic form orderly and powerful.
Third, Nanjing salted duck information
Nanjing boiled salted duck
Salted duck is a famous specialty in Nanjing, with a long history of 1000 years. Nanjing salted duck can be cooked all year round, and the curing and re-marinating cycle is short. Now it's sold, bought and eaten, so it shouldn't be stored for long.
This kind of duck skin is white and tender, fat but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, with the characteristics of fragrance, crispness and tenderness. The salted duck around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year has the best color and taste, because the duck is made in the season when osmanthus is in full bloom, so it is called "osmanthus duck".
"White Door Recipe" records: "In August in Jinling, salted duck is the most famous, and everyone thinks that there is osmanthus fragrance in the meat." Sweet-scented osmanthus duck is a good wine with clear thinking, strong purpose and long-term appetite. On holidays or working days, it seems to have become a secular etiquette in Nanjing for tourists from home to go out and buy a bowl of salted duck.