Where is the view? Famous mountains and rivers, rivers, lakes and seas, places of interest, parks and flowers? Although these places have beautiful scenery, after all, they are not everywhere around. There is a beautiful view, just under the feet, by the lake, on the beachhead, around, everywhere. It's just that we need to cherish the good, discover it with our hearts, and see it anytime and anywhere. This beautiful scenery is presented on the surface of large and small stones, wonderful art treasures painted by God, birds, insects, fish and beasts, and landscapes and flowers. I named it "Stone View".
I often practice in the morning at Yuyuan Lake, and often sit on the big rocks by the pool and watch the lake in a daze. I stumbled upon several stones with many paintings and many scenes on the surface. There are like alpine waterfalls, some like clear springs flowing, some like the Loess Plateau, and some like great rivers and mountains. Often alone, watching strange stones, admiring the stone scenery, refreshing and happy.
As we all know, some of the stones are shaped according to the rules, some are strangely shaped, some are smooth as jade, and some are uneven. Stones of all sizes have their own uses. Not all stones are worthy of people's viewing, only those very few stones with ornamental value can become ornamental stones, and people will play with it, watch it, and appreciate it.
Ornamental stone refers to the natural stone in the natural world by the original ecological development, mining out, to maintain the natural form of the stone itself, do not do any artificial processing of pure natural stone. People appreciate the power of nature when they appreciate the stone, and what they appreciate is the magical creation of the stone itself. Natural ornamental stones are the oldest natural "works of art" on earth, silent poems, three-dimensional paintings, solidified philosophies, and masterpieces of nature that cannot be repeated.
The author of the natural ornamental stone is the universe, the earth, the volcano, the sea, the glacier, the wind, the rain, the thunder, the electricity, the years, the whole natural world, and the master of art that human beings can never reach. Appreciating the ornamental stone and admiring the works of such masters of art is a kind of performance art of discovery and appreciation of visual beauty. Not only does it require a fairly high level of appreciation of art, but it is also greatly influenced by the subjective preferences of the viewer. Some admirers like to admire the shape, some like to appreciate the color, and some like to appreciate the pattern on its surface. I'm not up to the level where I can appreciate the stones, I just like the dynamic, landscape plateau paintings on the surface of the stones.
Pictures and texts retain memories, and good friends share. Every time at the edge of the pond, next to the stone, the more you look at the landscape map that you like more and more, the more you appreciate the more flexible the artwork, it is not realistic to move home, it is not interesting to appreciate it alone, and you can no longer appreciate it without the stone. What to do? The clever move came up with a good solution. Taking the stone scene in front of you, taking photos, making it into a painting, can be preserved permanently, and can also be shared by friends, which is really the world's first smartest way. So I made more than a dozen "Stone Scenes of Beijing" to share with friends.
In fact, it is really simple to find the beauty, as long as we have sunshine in our hearts and beauty in our eyes, the world is full of scenery and paintings everywhere. Looking at the motherland, the rivers and mountains are picturesque, and the stone scenery is close to the eyes.
(The pictures in the article are all self-made stone landscape paintings by the author, and the copyright belongs to the author)
Happiness Fang Yuan (Zhu Baoshu)
Published: November 1, 2021
Beijing KuanXinJu