“The expression “feeling stones to cross the river” illustrates the concept of liminality, which was first put forward by Arnold van Gennep at the turn of the twentieth century and subsequently reintroduced into anthropology by Victor Turner in the 1960s. Although liminality has both temporal and spatial dimensions, it is primarily conceptualized spatially. In the case of “feeling stones to cross the river,” space serves as a metaphor for historic transformation.”