when i first viewing the stone insicions on the Bidston Hill (the negative cut into the stone) reminds me quickly the Yang Shan Bei Cai, or the Yangshan tablet stone, in Nanjing city, which i visited the first time went to Nanjing. It is such a man made, there's a long story behind, which will bring the whole Ming history or the Chinese history back. But the point here is the abandoned project just leave a perfect character of "明" Ming! A positive cut.Saturday 14 February 2009
Ming Stone
when i first viewing the stone insicions on the Bidston Hill (the negative cut into the stone) reminds me quickly the Yang Shan Bei Cai, or the Yangshan tablet stone, in Nanjing city, which i visited the first time went to Nanjing. It is such a man made, there's a long story behind, which will bring the whole Ming history or the Chinese history back. But the point here is the abandoned project just leave a perfect character of "明" Ming! A positive cut.
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Shaw, thank you for directing me to the Ming quarry. I have of course heard of Ming porcelain, traditionally regarded in Europe as the most precious of Chinese ceramics, but this reference to the Quarry sent me on a most interesting enquiry. I learned more about the shaping of the three gigantic Yangshan Tablet Stones that you had mentioned... What an extraordinary undertaking that must have been.
Sean
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