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Jiayuguan stone variety

Jiayuguan has three kinds of stones: colored stones, washed painted stones and weathered fossils, which are very famous in the northwest.

Stone reliefs, in particular, are hard, colorful, lifelike and rich in variety, which have been highly praised by experts and scholars, and won honors in the China 1999 Kunming World Expo and the 2008 Beijing World Expo to welcome the Olympic Games. Some excellent products have won many awards in national, provincial and municipal exhibitions.

Ornamental stones and hidden stones have become a great hobby of Jiayuguan people. "A surprising number of strange stones, a cup of tea to talk about the spring and autumn", "Tibetan stones inspire, ponder, appreciate stones and cultivate life" have become the common pursuit of Jiayuguan strange stone lovers and collectors, and the appreciation of strange stones has entered an unprecedented period of prosperity.

The wind and rain carving of Gobi grottoes is an intriguing honeycomb grottoes formed after thousands of years of wind and rain erosion. After artificial carving and shaping, it is beautiful and moving, graceful, with both form and spirit, and it is ready to come out. The overall design is unique, poetic and full of rich desert customs. These artworks have won many awards in domestic exhibitions and become national designated tourism products.