中国人除了欣赏山峰石头的雄伟之外，对于花园里的石头也产生了一种欣赏的趣味，其所注重的是石头的色泽、构造、表面和纹理，有时也注重石头被敲击时所发出的声响。

• Side by side with this appreciation of the grandeur of rocks on mountain peaks,there developed then a different appreciation of rocks in gardens,emphasizing their color,texture,surface,grains and sometimes the sounds they produced when struck.