No.1 stone in Chinese stone industry

Who is the "no.1 stone" in Chinese stone industry?

Certainly not white marble

In 1998, the Stone Quality Monitoring Center of the National Building Materials Bureau and the Chinese Stone Association held the national standard examination and approval meeting of "Uniform Numbering of Natural Stone" in Quanzhou, Fujian province, and assessed 83 kinds of new special stone. The white marble of Fangshan Dashi Wa was named as the NATIONAL standard M1101, known as the "China No.1", and with the compressive strength of 156.4mpa, Bending strength 19.12mpa, Xiao should be 42.4 degrees, polishing degree 102 degrees and ranked first among the "Chinese mingte stone varieties", which shows the important position of white marble in the domestic stone industry.

White marble body white flawless, texture jade-run fine, stone body out of light watermark, commonly known as sweat line, and because from ancient China, with this stone palace stone steps and guardrail, the so-called "jade build zhu LAN", gorgeous jade, so called white marble.

White marble is a form of limestone, containing flash crystals, chemical formula is CaCO3, mainly composed of CaCO3, MgCO3 and SiO2, also contains a small amount of Al2O3, Fe2O3 and other components.

Nowadays, due to the difficulty of mining and small reserves, the price of white marble per cubic meter has been about ten thousand yuan; If you encounter a large stone volume, the price is unattainable, is the highest price in all marble.

Fangshan Dashiwo white marble is famous for its fine hard texture, white and delicate quality, solemn and rich style. It has a long reputation and has been unanimously recognized by experts at home and abroad. Premier Zhou Enlai gave a high evaluation of white marble before his death: white marble is a "national treasure", mining and protective application should be restricted, waste materials should not be exported.

White marble is widely used in the Imperial Palace, the Golden Water Bridge in front of Tian 'anmen, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, Marco Polo Bridge, the Ming Tombs, the Eastern Qing Dynasty, the Western Mausoleum and other grand projects are made of white marble. Speaking of the largest stone carving in the Forbidden City -- "Yunlong Step Stone", those who have visited the Palace Museum will be deeply impressed.

This piece of China's largest existing white marble carving, produced in Beijing fangshan "Big stone nest". There is a huge rectangular stone carving in the imperial road behind the Palace of Baohe, carved with nine soaring dragons, among the clouds, below for the sea river cliff, surrounded by grass patterns carved. The whole stone carvings are extremely gorgeous and breathtaking. Yunlong Step Stone is a Ming dynasty relic. It is supposed to have been built at the same time as the Forbidden City, in the 18th year of Yongle (A.D. 1420), which has a history of 590 years.

After the founding of new China, and shows the unique style of white marble, the top ten architecture in Beijing have nine chose white marble, the great hall of the people hold pillar, chairman MAO memorial hall and chairman MAO's statue, the people's heroes monument embossing, flag tiananmen square columns, the China millennium monument base TiZiBei XiangGangTing at the great hall of the people, etc.

In the construction of the millennium celebration of China century altar, as the gateway of China century Altar, the whole piece of white marble weighing 35 tons, like a statue of the altar god, is located in the front of the torch square. The stone is 8.65 meters long, 1.43 meters wide and 1.05 meters high. It is the first time that such a huge piece of white marble has been found in Korea, and it is a priceless treasure.

The front side engraved by President Jiang Zemin's handwriting inscribed "China century Altar" five gold characters, back engraved zhu Xiangyuan's "China century Altar preface", for the China century altar added a masculine and straight gas, showing the grand vision of the Chinese nation.

Chinese stone in the international reputation of the variety has always been a black and white, white is fangshan Stone white marble, in the international market has become a symbol of wealth and power, by the foreign palace dignitaries favor. Well stone masons in the hollow of the sea, bring China's white marble, in China the mini-sculpture to the people of the world, the village was known as the Beijing suburbs outside the construction of the plant, the production of white marble sculpture works of art are exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as Europe, southeast Asia, widely used in foreign royal prince, collection and classical botanical garden sculpture.

For example, The Chinese Garden in Hokkaido, Japan, the Yushu Dragon Pavilion in Fung Hua Garden, Canada, the iconic sculpture in Singapore National Forest Park, the miniature landscape in Egypt World Park, Berlin De Yue Garden, Germany, and the Chinese classical marble archway in Paris, France.