石在人们生活中满目皆是,人与石朝夕相处,故人们对石有天性的钟爱。古人因迷信对某山、某石朝拜,而视为神山、圣石,将之神化,赋予它生命和灵气。人们崇敬石,也向往大自然,于是便采集奇石移置于庭园中造成种种假山景观,似身居自然之中。当人们发现某些石头形态或图案酷似自然界的物象,便将这袖珍的“自然”携入居室细细玩赏。观千山万水,自然万物于尺寸间;足不出户,可领会山川之神韵、自然之神奇。一块石头能给人带来某种遐想及美的享受,这块石头就不是普通的石头,它具有了观赏价值,就是一块观赏石。观赏石是大自然创造的艺术品。观赏石也称奇石、石玩或雅石。人 Stone in people’s lives are everywhere, man and stone get along, so people have a natural love of stone. The ancients because of superstition on a mountain, a stone worship, and as a mountain, holy stone, the deification, give it life and aura. People respect the stone, but also yearning for nature, so they will be collected in the garden to move the rockery caused a variety of rockery landscape, seems to live in nature. When people find that certain stone shapes or patterns resemble the images of nature, they bring this miniature “natural” into the living room for a fine play. View thousands of miles, nature, everything in between the size; stay at home, can understand the charm of mountains and rivers, the natural magic. A stone can bring some reverie and beauty to enjoy, this stone is not an ordinary stone, it has the ornamental value, is a piece of ornamental stone. Ornamental stone is an artwork created by nature. Ornamental stone also known as rock, stone play or Yashi. people