Since ancient times, human beings have been living in natural caves and hunting with stone tools for a living. In the Neolithic Age, people gradually formed aesthetic consciousness in the practice of production and life, became interested in the external characteristics of stone materials, and knew how to use the description of rock walls to record the relationship between man and Wu Dong and between man and nature, thus realizing their self-significance. Humans have gradually turned from conquering nature to spiritual sustenance of religious worship, nature worship, deity worship and totem worship, and cultural phenomena such as quarrying, stone carving, grottoes and stone appreciation have gradually emerged. Stone culture has strong cognition and creativity in form and semantic expression, and a systematic study of it is helpful to enhance the visual appeal, spiritual cohesion and cultural appeal of stone culture.

First, the form of stone culture

(A) the natural form

The natural form of stone is not dominated by human consciousness, but is completely evolved by natural forces, with visibility and touchability. We can divide the natural form of stone into rational form and perceptual form.

Mineral rocks formed under natural conditions without artificial treatment and carving have natural characteristics such as bright texture, rich color, hard stone and different shapes. This is a rational form of stone under the catalysis of natural environmental factors, and it is the most primitive and simple state of stone. Under the environmental shaping and evolution of hundreds of millions of years, forest greenstone has the rational beauty of natural aesthetic law and the constitutive beauty of natural change law.

The perceptual form of stone is to integrate human perceptual consciousness into rational form, which can also be said to be subjective form. The greenstone evolved under natural conditions has a visual aesthetic culture, which is a cultural form combining the natural form of stone with people's subjective aesthetic consciousness, such as different stone, skillful stone, Chou Shi, strange stone, solitary stone, elegant stone and sacrificial stone. By collecting, collecting, hiding, appreciating, exerting, realizing, cherishing, showing, discussing, etc.

(2) Artificial form

The natural form of stone, after artificial transformation and treatment, is called artificial form of stone. Its external characteristics are dominated by people's consciousness and have certain decorative and functional features. Forest greenstone, the thought form of stone, not only retains the texture, texture, volume and massiness in the natural form, but also meets the needs of human beings for function, spirit and emotion. For example, China ancient stone relief, tomb stone carving, rock wall stone carving and grotto art, and stone statues and stone buildings in western stone carving art, etc. As one of the earliest art forms of human beings, stone carving has powerful information dissemination function and great artistic expression because of the diversity of artificial forms.

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