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Above; Bronze Award. Below; Golden Award.

Above; Malachite, Bronze Award. Below; Dahua stones, Guangxi Province, China. Silver Award

event. All exhibits were of Chinese origin and were se-
lected for exhibition by Nanjing and Shanghai Penjing
& Viewing Stone Associations.
Chinese viewing stones are often bigger than Japanese
Suiseki. But often they distinguish also in shape and
color. Whereas traditional Chinese Scholars’ rocks
are mostly grey to black limestone of abstract shape,
named by their place of origin, the city of Lingbi
in Anhui Province, west of Shanghai or Yingde in
Guangzhou Province, south China. Taihu and Kun-
shan stones are also traditional scholar’s stones.
Nowadays color stones and/or object stones are often
preferred. Well known color stones such as Dahua
stones are found in the Red River near the city of Da-
hua in Guangxi Province. They are of very hard mate-
rial with shiny surface. (Porcelain or pottery stones
are Caitao stones and are regarded as separate from

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