A Study On The Tourism Development Of Mt.Tai Stone-culture

In the long history of Chinese civilization, "stone" not only witnessed its development and grandness, but had very high status in human real and spiritual life. Countrymen also melt their thinking and feeling into it and show them by various forms including fairy tale, poem and songs, gardens sights and folk-customs and so on, thus one cultural phenomena and system which has "stone" at its core and as carriers, becoming a special flower-stone culture-in Chinese glittering culture.Guo Mo-ruo once said that "Mt.Tai culture is the epitome of Chinese history and culture". Mt.Tai stone culture has strong representation among Chinese stone culture as well as Chinese civilization. The paper analyses the social background and developing process and concludes the origin and development of Chinese stone culture has experienced four periods, namely, originality germination, Spring Autumn-to-Weijin period and dynasties of Tang, Song, Ming and Qing. The development origin of Mt.Tai stone culture is consistent with the history of Chinese stone culture.At present time, the academe study of Mt.Tai culture only rests on the historical discussion of stone culture and stone appreciation theories, but not has systemic and scientific tour development of it as tourism resources. The paper analyses the cultural meaning of stone-culture tourism resources from a cultural perspective. On the basis of Mt.Tai stone culture's adhering status quo, the paper separates Mt.Tai stone-culture tourism resources into natural tourism resources and human tourism resources. According to the subjects studying difference caused by the difference between eastern and western culture, Mt.Tai stone culture consists of human processing stone and stones for view and admire. The determination and evaluation of tourism resources on the basis of such classifications definitudes that Mt.Tai stone culture tourism resources have developing values such as science reviewing, cultural, social economic and tour function like entertainment detecting function, medical treatment and commercial function. The paper discourses upon developing status quo, successful experience in development and existing problem, then brings forward ideas for reestablishing stone culture tourism products, exploitation and management style and sustainable strategies of tourism market.