By/Zhang Wei
When I first get in touch with a new kind of stone species——Gu Pan stone, I've identified some of its highlights already and immediately I firmly believed that this is the stone I need. I make up my mind after I saw the stone: Wherever the stone goes, I'll catch up with it in any exhibition. The framework of this article was formed a long time ago, and the reason for the delay in finalizing the draft is that I truly need more and deeper understanding of this kind of stone. Besides, I am afraid of the soaring prices my article will cause. I mean, facing the excellent stone species which is so suitable for combination creation like this, what if the price fly before I haven't got too much on my hand yet? So, in my opinion, to play the stone as the various combination creation enjoyably, the conditions are not yet available. Just like someone jokingly said, “The warehouse has not been built yet.”
Up to now, it seems that I never seen a stone like it before. It integrate the advantages of several famous viewing stone species into one——the shape of the Shi Dan stone, the lines of the Gu Tong stone and the texture as well as the color of the Sha Moqi stone. This kind of new stone species can be called “Top Matching Stone Species”. In other words, it is the stone that is rare to see which is the “agate stone gallstones” “Sha Moqi gallstones” and the “gallstones has rich variety”. At the meantime, it is also the stone of typical ancient stone species. In today's cold winter like stone market, there are few kinds of stone species can as popular as it. This new kind of stone species is the “agate and Sha Moqi gallstones”that produced and imported from Gobi Desert, Chad,Africa. Some others also call it “African agate” or “Gu Pan stone”.