When it comes to human relationships and rock, should be recognized in the evolution of human civilization and rock played a very important role. Rocks and we humans do form a very close relationship. As early as in the Stone Age, our ancestors in order to survive, they have begun to use more hard rock made into a variety of simple working tools for hunting, cutting food. Through archaeological discoveries, as early as five million years ago, hominids legacy of various stone reached tens of thousands of pieces. Engels once said: people can handle with his first piece of rock made knives, and finally completed a decisive step in the transition from ape to man. With the continuous development of human progress and the mining industry, began to have a rock record. Of BC in the early Warring States Period, there are rocks and minerals discussed book "Shan Hai Jing", you can say that this is one of the world's earliest recorded books rocks.
Many important buildings around the country, such as the Town Hall, Memorial Hall, library, theater and gymnasium were built with stone from the rock to do. In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standards, these elegant building stone gradually into millions of households, to beautify the room played a role in icing on the cake.
Many preserved monuments of history found so far are rock buildings. For example, the world-famous Great Wall is said to be established with stones from across the country together; our Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province, the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang recorded the wisdom and superb artistic level of ancient working people; Beilin, Xi'an, Luoyang Xinan's "Thousands of Tang vegetarian," carved in stone these paintings for the study of Chinese history text and provided valuable information. Beijing is famous five dynasties, has a very rich heritage resources, stone, stone temple, Shishou and other stone relics can be seen everywhere, Beijing constitute a unique metropolitan style. Many facts suffices to show that development of human culture and rock are inseparable.