“The Great Respiration”
This large Chinese White Lingbi Stone, with the gray limestone rock contrasting sharply with the whitish siliceous or calcareous-siliceous formations, is a rare variant of the more common, uniformly dark-colored Lingbi Stone. The name of the stone, which embodies the orogenic forces that form mountains, is derived from a Daoist text that states "rising and falling, soaring upward or sitting down, the mountain brings about the great respiration of the world."
