Willow stone is mainly produced in Yangliu Creek, Wuxi Town, under Tianqiao Mountain, a Buddhist holy place in Luxi County, hence the name. Willow stone is a product of the Quaternary ancient glacial period and belongs to purple-red calcareous mudstone. Its color is naturally bright and crystal, its mechanism is meticulous, its layer is stable, and its texture is pure, making it an ideal processing stone. Willow stone carving has a history of more than 300 years in Luxi. In addition to its natural color, Wuxi willow stone carving has a stone hardness of about 4 degrees, a delicate and warm stone layer, and is easy to process. The carving artists make full use of the natural stone state, carve finely, or relief or hollow, and give full play to their creative inspiration as soon as possible. Compared with another precious stone material in Luxi, chrysanthemum stone, chrysanthemum stone is limited by the flower shape, and the sculptor's artistic conception is also limited to a certain extent, making it difficult to use the knife freely. However, willow stone is not limited by the flower shape of chrysanthemum stone, and the stone state is lively and vivid, giving sculptors ample imagination space, active creative thinking, understanding, and fine products. The works created by the carving artists, such as "Nine Elders", "Bat, Deer, Longevity Star, Pine Tree" screen, "Dragon and Phoenix Inkstone", "Dragon Bottle", "Marquis on Horseback" and bat-shaped tea sets, are lifelike and vivid. In the process of development, the selection of materials for willow stone carving has been constantly improved, and the skills have been continuously improved, especially the skills, which have gradually matured to the present. On the basis of inheriting the ancestral tradition, the sculptor She Jun has raised the willow stone carving skills to a new height with his unique artistic perspective and new expression techniques. In the material stone, according to the natural stone state, he uses his imagination, carves carefully, and creates exquisite willow stone carvings, which are deeply loved by people.