China News Service, Hefei, January 15th (Chu Weiwei, Wang Haibin, Zhu Sensen) "Panda Family", "Panda Couple", "Panda Baby"... Walking into the home of Wu Haiyang, a lover of strange stone collections, feels like being in a "Panda Paradise", 300 Pieces of "Panda Stone" in black and white, different shapes, very vivid.

Wu Haiyang's panda stone work - "Panda Couple".

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  Giant pandas have lived on the earth for at least 8 million years and are known as "living fossils" and "China's national treasures".

Because of its round body, naive attitude, and full of "cute" nature, it is deeply loved by the world.

Wu Haiyang showed the panda stone to reporters, which he likened to "grandma panda".

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  Wu Haiyang's hometown is located in Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains.

When he was a child, he picked up stones by the river in the mountains and played with them, and he had an intimacy with stones since he was a child.

At the age of 43, he runs a local eyewear business and has collected rare stones in his spare time for more than ten years.

Two years ago, Wu Haiyang came into contact with the "Panda Stone" by chance, and was attracted by its cute image.

Wu Haiyang's panda stone work - "Panda Family".

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  "The stones in my collection are mainly Yangtze River stones, mostly panda-shaped stones and picture stones, mostly from the Jinma River in Sichuan Province, a tributary of the Yangtze River." Wu Haiyang introduced that the complex geological structure of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River provides the Yangtze River stones with delicate stones and rich colors. natural "raw materials".

  "'Panda stones' are all formed naturally. They are picked up after the water washes up to the river bank. In the later stage, they only need to be smeared with egg whites to improve the color contrast." Wu Haiyang said that he "purchased" "panda stones" from all over the country. Afterwards, the stones will be classified and matched according to their shapes.

"Panda sleeping on a tree", "Panda leaning on bamboo", "Panda grandparents"... In his "Panda Paradise", the changeable shapes show the variety and cuteness of pandas.

Wu Haiyang is wiping the panda stone.

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  "'Panda Stone' is not only liked by Chinese people, but also by people from South Korea, Japan and other countries. Each stone is unique, and if you buy one, you will lose one." Wu Haiyang said that the image of the panda's naivety is very pleasing, and during the epidemic Before it happened, many foreign friends often came to China to buy.

He believes that now China is paying more and more attention to resource protection. Naturally formed stones are a kind of resources, and collecting stones also plays a protective role.

In Wu Haiyang's home in Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, there are a total of 300 panda stones, which are black and white in different shapes and very vivid.

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  At present, Wu Haiyang not only collects "Panda Stone", but also collects a large number of characters stones, landscape stones and other kinds of strange stones, a total of more than 3,000 pieces.

"Over the past ten years, hundreds of thousands of RMB have been invested." He admitted that collecting stones requires not only money, but also energy to form a satisfactory set of works. It often takes a year to find stones from all over the country.

Wu Haiyang's panda stone work - "Panda Baby".

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  Talking about the harvest, Wu Haiyang said that through collecting stones, he met many like-minded "stone friends", and also increased knowledge through mutual exchanges.

In his spare time, he also takes his 5-year-old son to the river to pick up stones.

He believes that every stone is a gift of nature. In the process, not only can he accompany the children, but he can also experience the beauty of nature with his family.

  And in his heart, there is a dream about stones.

Wu Haiyang said that his hometown, Yuexi County, is vigorously promoting the development of global tourism. In the future, he hopes to build a strange stone museum in Dabie Mountain, making friends with stones, and attracting more people to come to Dashan to "revitalize" the township with stones.

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