As one of the construction materials being longest in human history, and one of enduring materials for construction and artistic innovation, stone has been endowed with abundant cultural connotations.

Modern stone industry has been highly developed with its terminal use in such fields as architecture, gardening, cemetery and engraving art, etc. It remains an urgent task to concentrate and abstract the elite contents of stone use in construction.    

The article aims to probe and study the practical characteristics of stone applied in the above fields, looking forward to achieving positive role for readers' reference.