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Tu Wan's Stone Catalogue of Cloudy Forest

Edward H. Schafer

出版	Floating World Editions, 2005
主題	Art / Asian / GeneralNature / Rocks & MineralsPhilosophy / EasternScience / Earth Sciences / Mineralogy
ISBN	18916401519781891640155
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=w8rcAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Although Chinese sources as early as the first millennium B.C. had mentioned stones as objects of value or aesthetic merit, this 12th-century catalogue is the first whole work in Chinese literature devoted to the subject. By this date the appreciation of viewing stones in gardens and in the studios of scholars had ignited a craze, and Du Wan, a stone collector and descendent of the great T'ang poet Tu Fu, recorded his travels in search of interesting specimens and how and why he acquired them. Professor Schafer discusses the Chinese taste in stones, Tu Wan and the history and nature of his catalogue, and the technology and petrology of the 12th century. His synopsis of the Chinese text describes 144 types of stones with translated abstracts of each, material of great interest to modern collectors of scholar's rocks.