Abstract: The emergence of stone appreciation in the form of imitating mountains during the Song Dynasty was not a sudden and discontinuous phenomenon, but a phased achievement resulting from the long-term evolution of the relationship between humans and stones in ancient China. From the perspective of sculpture, merely recognizing the aesthetic judgment of its shape still fails to reach the fundamental value of stone appreciation. Therefore, this paper takes the stone appreciation culture of the Song Dynasty as the research object, combines historical documents with artistic practices, and focuses on investigating how stones gradually transformed from sacred mediums and symbols of power into aesthetic objects that could be contemplated and handled in different historical stages. The paper points out that the formation of stone appreciation concepts in the Song Dynasty was closely related to the changes in the view of nature among the scholar-official class, the withdrawal of physical experience, and the establishment of spiritual ways of viewing. It attempts to reveal the internal logic of stone appreciation from "awe" to "contemplation", and further explains how stone appreciation in the Song Dynasty established an oriental aesthetic paradigm centered on "viewing the small from the perspective of the large" and "seeing the large in the small" for later generations.
关键词: 宋代赏石;拟山;人石关系;审美转型;空间观念
Keywords: Song Dynasty stone appreciation; mountain imitation; human-stone relationship; aesthetic transformation; spatial concept