a touch of bright red bloodstone in history

The bloodstone is the ground stone of the cinnabar strip, because its color is as bright as chicken blood, so it is commonly known as bloodstone. The earliest bloodstone found in Yuyan Mountain in Changhua, Zhejiang Province, later discovered the Bashi Bloodstone in Bahrain Right Banner, Inner Mongolia. In the 1990s, bloodstone was found in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, and Yunnan.

Legend of the bloodstone

Legend has it that a pair of beautiful phoenixes in the heavens heard the sorrowful voices of the world. At this moment, the locusts are plagued by disasters, crops are not long, and the people suffer. The good phoenix decided to go to the world to eliminate the plague, disperse the plague, and save the soul. With the help of the phoenix, the people have lived a happy life, and the phoenix also stayed in the local Enze party. It is a pity that a pair of tyrannical birds and lions came from the mountains, and they had a jealousy towards the phoenix. One day, they licked the female phoenix into the incubation period. When the male phoenix went out for food, she sneaked into the phoenix nest. The female phoenix was cut off by a bird lion. The red blood rushed into the local rock. Finally, the phoenix defeated the bird lion. But the Phoenix egg has been trampled on, and the phoenix screams and vacates. Although the phoenix has gone, the blood of the phoenix blood has become a piece of bloodstone, and continues to bless the local people.

Bloodstone and celebrities

Folklore: "The bloodstone will bring the fortune to the forefront, and the people can hide their homes to avoid evil. The emperor can hide the country and the country." Since ancient times, the bloodstone of Changhua has always been a collection of scholars, nobles, and emperors. In the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Qianlong also had a bloodstone seal engraved with "Qianlong Zhibao". The Empress Dowager Cixi and other emperors also liked to use the bloodstone as a treasure. In the contemporary era, Chairman Mao Zedong treasured the two large-scale Changhua Bloodstone Seals; Premier Zhou Enlai presented Changhua's Bloodstone Fangzhang to the former Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei with the National Gifts; when the US President visited China, China chose to engrave "Ronald" Reagan's Changhua Bloodstone Seal was given to him. Nowadays, bloodstone often communicates with the national gift exchange culture, and becomes an important part of the splendid culture of the Chinese nation, adding a bright red color to the material and spiritual wealth of the world.

Bloodstone variety

Changhua Bloodstone is divided into four categories: frozen land, soft ground, fresh ground and hard ground.

Frozen ground bloodstone: the main component is a natural aggregate composed of cinnabar and dickite, kaolinite, including glass jelly, sheep fat, horn jelly, peach jelly, etc., transparent or translucent, usually hardness 2, 3 about.

Soft ground bloodstone: The main components are cinnabar and dickite, kaolinite, which has a certain waxy luster, opaque or partially transparent. Bloodstone with a hardness between 2 and 4.

Just the bloodstone: It is the product of silicidation of kaolinite and alumite, with hardness between 4 and 7.

Hard groundstone: It is the product of silicification in the process of mineralization. The geological name is cinnabar silicified tuff or cinnabar siliceous rock. The main component is SiO2 (silica), and its hardness is greater than 7 grades.

The quality of Changhua Bloodstone is blood and ground. The blood color is bright red, deep red, red, purple, etc. The shape of chicken blood is red, red, star red, red, etc., and can reach fresh, condensed and thick. Good, deep and thick, deep in the stone, there is a concentration or bloodstone spot balance is better. In addition, Changhua's bloodstone stone has 6 virtues of “fine, red, moist, greasy, warm and condensed”.

Identify true and false bloodstone

Identification of a piece of bloodstone can be identified by three methods: chicken blood, texture and weight. First of all, we must look at chicken blood. Generally, there is no silver spot in the fake chicken blood, and the shade is uneven, the lines are thick and thin, and the pattern is not natural. Secondly, we must look at the texture. The fake bloodstone is made of plastic compound. There is no stone feeling when touched by hand. There will be no stone chips after the knife is burned. If the firestone is burnt, there will be a burnt rubber smell. The real bloodstone will not. Some people even paste the bloodstone slices on the rough stone, and then glue them with the joint glue and the stone powder. The shape is very similar to the real bloodstone. Under the strong light, the authenticity can be discerned, or whether the blood color and the shape are consistent or coherent. Not difficult to see through. In addition, some people use stone powder to add compounds, mold molded with "cinnabar" or red watercolor fake chicken blood. Finally, weigh the weight. The weight of the real bloodstone is calmer, and the weight of the fake bloodstone is frivolous.