The appearance of Taishan stone is mostly irregular oval, with coarse grain, clear texture, prominent picture and strong contrast tone, which is ready for masculinity and boldness. On closer inspection, the stone offered by Mount Tai is as magnificent as Mother Taishan, never pleasing people by clever thinking, and its color is as simple and elegant as China ink painting. Or landscapes, or people, or words, or birds and animals, each has its own wonderful. Taishan stone shows the charm of Chinese painting at a proper visual distance because of its roughness. "Cliff" said that Mount Tai "if there are Arabic numerals in granite, it is also called literal granite". Character granite occupies a certain proportion in Taishan stone; Looking at his calligraphy, his lines are strange, his iron pen is hooked with silver, his strength runs through the stone back, and he combines rigidity and softness, which can make people realize the elegant demeanor of the heavenly book, which is better than that of Zhong Ding, and beauty, willow, rice and Cai are still behind. Daiyue is famous on five continents. For thousands of years, there are countless strange stones in China, only Mount Tai and Shi Gandang. The mysterious and rugged Taishan Mountain has a history of 2.5 billion years and is one of the oldest rocks. Mount Tai is a descendant of Mount Tai's mother, and has won the reputation of being ornamental and elegant, which really benefits from its position in the Chinese nation. The ancestors of Yanhuang people placed lingshi, burned firewood and sacrificed on Mount Tai, which is a primitive lingshi worship. Since Qin Shihuang came to Taidai to establish Shi Songde, how many generations of emperors have lived here, sealing temples and putting stones. For thousands of years, from the emperor's powerful people to the villagers' wanderers, Mount Tai has been set up to worship the gods, with Mount Tai as the platform and Mount Tai town as the pavilion, so the worship belief and Mount Tai's stone appreciation culture have been gradually integrated.
Taishan stone is hard in texture, fine in structure and coarse in some grains; The shape is natural block, the pier is thick and simple, sub-angular, mud-round, irregular oval, mainly patterned; The color tone is calm, dignified and vigorous, which appears in transparent and semi-transparent pictures. On the stone surface with gray, gray-black, gray-green, shallow river, indigo, yellow, brown, black and other colors, various white textures are intertwined, or convex or concave, forming alpine waterfalls, dead branches of ancient trees, birds and animals, romantic figures and other patterns. Smooth and shiny, balanced composition, clear and vivid, each with its own miraculous effect. Most of the colors are black and white, with lofty and elegant ink paintings, and some are cleverly embedded with red or yellow ornamentation.
The rocks in Mount Tai include plagioclase gneiss, biotite amphibole plagioclase gneiss, gneiss granite, granite gneiss and fine-grained amphibole. Its pattern is crystallized by filling irregular primary cracks with light-colored minerals such as plagioclase and potash feldspar in time. Some light-colored mineral juices, such as plagioclase and timely remelting, are filled in the cracks of shallow rocks, forming various veins such as network, branching, belt and block. In the process of crustal changes, these metamorphic rocks gradually surfaced, formed isolated blocks after a long period of natural weathering, collapsed and rolled into gullies and rivers, and became strange stones after being washed by running water and honed by sand and gravel.
Taishan stone has good patterns and prominent stone tendons. The white lines that make up the picture can be divided into stone ribs and stone skins. Due to the different hardness of stone reinforcement and stone body, after thousands of years of weathering and sharpening, stone reinforcement gradually protrudes from the stone surface and has a sense of relief.
Taishan Stone is distributed in Dongxi, Xixi, Mata, Xiagang Canyon and Valley in the mountains around the main peak of Taishan Mountain in Tai 'an City, especially Taohuayuan Canyon in the west of the main peak. In recent years, black and white pebbles produced in Licheng and Changqing of Jinan have also been classified as Taishan stone. Mount Tai in Tai 'an feels thicker and more powerful, because there are some stones mixed in it, not just pebbles, but mainly colorful patterns and landscape trees. The pebbles in Jinan are mainly washed stones with delicate texture, and the pictures are mostly people and animals. The best products in Taishan stone are mostly washed.