Chicken Crown Mountain Bluish Stone

Chicken Crown Mountain Bluish Stone

　　　　Product Name: Chicken Crown Mountain Bluish Stone

　　Place of Origin: Zhuji　

　　Product Description: Chicken Crown Mountain Bluish Stone is a unique variety among Zhuji’s crafted stone materials. It boasts a long history of mining and processing. The stone features a thick-layered structure with a dense, fine-sandy composition. Its color is a uniform bluish-gray, and the stone’s hardness is moderate, making it easy to work with. Products made from the stone are mostly used in construction materials or practical crafts, with a small number being purely artistic pieces. These include stone slabs, stone railings, stone pillars, stone steles, as well as carvings of flowers, plants, birds, animals, and human figures. Thanks to the excellent quality of the stone and the fine craftsmanship involved, the products have a simple and robust character that has made them very popular with customers, resulting in high demand. These items are widely used in gardens, bridges, antique-style buildings, as well as various structures such as halls, buildings, and facilities, adding distinctive charm to these constructions.

　　Product History: Mining began as early as the Song Dynasty. The “Zhuji County Annals” from the Xuantong era of the Qing Dynasty recorded: “The Chicken Crown Mountain in Zhuji produces unique stones, many of which are ‘tea-white.’ The annotation in ‘Jiyang Customs Fu’ states, ‘The stone patterns resemble stars, the moon, flowers, and animals, and are called tea-white.’” Chicken Crown Mountain Bluish Stone is bluish-gray in color, with a uniform tone and moderate hardness, making it suitable for processing. The stonework produced includes mainly construction materials and everyday crafts, along with a few purely artistic pieces. These products are widely used in gardens, bridges, antique-style buildings, and various structures such as halls and buildings. In addition to being bestsellers in cities like Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guilin, they are also exported to Hong Kong and various parts of Southeast Asia.