Nice flowers in high moon 月圓花好

A piece of excellent work of art, a stone carving from the highest quality of Qintian stone, Fongmenqin. The person who created this piece of work is the grand master Nee Tongfang. Nee also owns a stone carving museum where he displays all his works in stone carving. The theme for this work of at is Nice flowers in high moon It was also featured in a series of stamps issued by China in 1992 on stone carvings. The moon is carved out from this crystal clear Fongmenqin which is perfect with no defect. This must be a master-piece of art. If you ever visit Qintian, a small town in Zejiang, do visit the museum and admire this exquisite piece of carving.



Fongmenqin carving by Nietongfang

 

In an interview, Nee told reporter that when he bought the raw stone (a rather flat stone), the high quality Fongmenqin was sandwiched between rock. He spent one whole day painstakingly removed the impurity from the quality staff. This was a very delicate job as one mistake would cause irreparable damage. After he successfully removed the rock from the stone, he was amazed at the quality of this Qintian stone. It was yellowish green in colour and very crystal-like and without blemish. He realised that the best thing to carve out from this rare Fongmenqin was a moon due to the disc shape of the stone. The red portion of the stone he could carve some flowers and perhaps one or two birds (flowers attract birds). He then thought of a theme, nice flowers in high moon (月圓花好) where he would carve some flowers surrounding the moon with two birds in the midst of the flowers.

It took the master several months to complete the job. I every stage of the carving, he had to be extra careful not to damage it or else his whole effort would be wasted. When he had finished the carving, a world class master-piece of stone carving was produced.

All the visitors to his stone carving museum admire and praise him for his achievement in carving this one-of-a-kind creation. In 1992 when China postal authority visited his museum, the stone carving was selected as a theme for the national stamps depicting stone carvings.

There is a song on this theme, nice flower in high moon, 月圓花好.
If you want to hear this song, just click on the UOL.

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