What are the three strange stones in the Forbidden City?

There are three strange stones in the imperial garden of the Forbidden City, namely "Zhuge worships Beidou", "Sea Cucumber Stone" and "Wood Fossil".

1. Zhuge worships Beidou Stone.

Zhuge Bai Beidou stone is a washstone with gravelly quartzite. Ingeniously, iron oxide and gravel naturally form a figure that worships the Big Dipper.

The whole stone statue is smooth and full, and the figure is located on the left side of the stone body, wearing a nylon scarf, a wide robe and big sleeves, and bowing with both hands, like an enlightened old man offering sacrifices to heaven. On the right side of the picture, dark brown wide lines are formed, such as the night sky, and the gravel in the middle is like the arrangement of the Big Dipper.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang was good at stargazing and strategizing. According to legend, Zhuge Liang is the satellites in the sky, and Zixing is the imperial star. The palace advocates the unity of Buddhism and Taoism, hence the name "Zhuge worships Beidou".

Sea cucumber stone

2. sea cucumber stone.

The sea cucumber stone is composed of hundreds of feldspar crystals, which are intact and have numerous thorns. It is crystal clear and lifelike, just like the sashimi in Bohai Sea, the first of the "Eight Treasures of the Sea".

In Qing Dynasty, there were 2 17 dishes in Manchu-Han banquet, among which sea cucumber appeared 12 times, which shows that the imperial cuisine loved sea cucumber. Sticky sea cucumber, delicious food.

Mubianshi

3. Turn wood into stone.

Mubian Stone is a pine-core silicon fossil presented to Gan Long by Fu Monk, a general of Heilongjiang Province. Stone trees have obvious lines, loose paste like wax, clear veins and peaks, and are also stones.

Wood-changed stone goes from wood to water to dark wood, to carbonized wood, and finally to silicon fossils. Qualitative change takes millions or even tens of millions of years.

Emperor Qianlong was very fond of this wooden stone, and wrote a poem on the back of the wooden stone, "If you don't remember the day of throwing yourself into the river, you will meet the year of changing the stone." Knock on yourself, but the festival is still there. The lateral branches are completely withered, and they grow straight and strengthen themselves. Although Kanggan is a 20-year-old tribute, it is not as good as this peak. "