“天赐奇石，人赋妙意”，“玩石长乐，修身养性”，这是东方民族赏石、玩石、爱石的文化传统。弘扬赏石文化，功在当代，利在千秋。

馆内拥有大中型水石、风砺石及山石等观赏石上千件，水石采自云南澜沧江中下游、湄公河上游，以及金沙江中下游和川黔桂的主要河流；风砺石来自戈壁滩；山石主要采自滇东一带。

      造型石栩栩如生、纹理石幽柔变幻、特种石内藏秘经、观赏化石亘古复生、观赏矿物晶莹剔透。

      馆藏有单花花径达68cm的特大菊花石，其花蕊是一枚距今2.7亿年的腕足类化石，颇具蝶恋花诗韵，极富科研价值；有200多道几可乱真的石头宴——满汉全席。可谓奇石荟萃，石之盛宴。赏之，心旷神怡，思之，别有洞天！

天然元宝石之最

奇石宴-满汉全席

Theme Exhibition of Ornamental Stone Culture

      Chinese people have a traditional stone culture for appreciation, enjoyment and appraisal of ornamental stones. They think that ‘the nature creates various stones in fascinating forms and people use their imaginations to give life to the nature’s creation’ and they also believe that ornamental stone art is a healthy hobby that cultivates a real appreciation of the nature and provides a source of artistic inspiration. Hence the stone culture has prospered from the past to the present.

      This room displays over one thousand pieces of ornamental stones, mostly large and medium water stones, ventifact and mountain stones. Water stone samples were collected from the higher and lower reaches of Lancang River, higher reaches of Mekong River in Yunnan, middle and lower reaches of Jinsha River and some major rivers in Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. Samples of ventifact came from Gobi Desert and mountain stones came from East Yunnan.

      The vivid shapes of modelling stones, subtle variations of texture stones, secret scripts of special type stones, life stories of ornamental fossils and translucent luster of ornamental minerals are all represented in this collection.

      There is a super large chrysanthemum stone with a diameter of 68 centimeters. Its stamen is a brachiopod fossil aged 270 million years. It is not only wonderfully beautiful with a poetic touch but has very high value for scientific research as well. There is another piece called Man-Han Banquet of more than 200 courses of enticing ‘stone delicacies’. This is indeed a great gathering of amazing stones for eyes and minds and a forceful evidence of the greatness of nature.