Crystal's past and present life

Crystal, China's oldest name is Shuiyu, meaning water-like jade, and it is also said to be "the ice of the millennium." "Shan Hai Jing", the crystal is also known as the water Bi: "Three hundred miles south again, the sun on the mountains, no vegetation, more water Bi", Guo Yan Note: "also water jade." This title is often quoted by the literati. Jin Jingchun's "Lijiang Fu" said: "Rose, water, blue potential." Some people call it crystal jade. "Fu Ruitu" contains: "The beautiful stone resembles jade, and the essence of water is jade."

The Tang Dynasty poet Wen Tingyun wrote "The Quiet Life of Li Shishi," wrote: "The water jade scorpion head white towel, the Yaoqin's solitude is light dust." The term “water jade” was frequently used first in the “Shanhai Jing Jing”: “Three hundred miles east, the mountain of the court of the day courts...the water jade”; “the Danshan River exits, the southeast stream flows into the Luoshui, which is mostly water jade”; Out of the eaves, the north stream flows into the stream, including many water jades." Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu" said: "Water Yu Lei River." The crystal is named Shuiyu, and the ancients valued the texture of "its water is as strong as its water".

Why crystal is called water essence? "Guangya" has a clever solution: "The spirit of water is also"; Li Shizhen said: "Yue Jie Jingguang, such as the elite of the water." In particular, this name also contains a strong sense of religion! Shui Jing, originally found in the Buddha book, after the Chinese translation of the branch of the "bright with the setting of the Sutra" said: "The way it is done, the color is like water fine." Later, in Ansi Gao's translation of the Analects of the Seven Scriptures, Shuijing was listed as one of the four major treasures, and the immeasurably pure “Equal Judgment” translated by Zhi Jia Yu said that Shui Jing was a Qibao. one.

The Buddhist family believes that the crystal will flash the magical light, which can revive sentient beings. So the crystal is honored as a Bodhisattva stone. "Talking Garden" said: "There are Bodhisattvas in the Emei Mountain in Jiazhou, shaped like a six-edge and sharp-edged, bright and clear, if the Taishan Langya Shangrao crystal like."

"Guangya" said that the crystal is called quartz, and those who are white and white are called white. For the attached word. Sima Xiangru's Zi Xu Fu has a sentence of "yellow and white". Su Lin explained: "White and white quartz are also."

In the book “Different names of spasmodic objects”, it is said: “The essence of water is from the Great Qin State and one from Lebanon”. Crystallized crystal crystals, like staggered dents, so people call it horsegrass. The earliest ancestors used it to grind into a spectacle lens, thus giving it the nickname of a spectacle stone.

Crystal is known generically and is also commonly known. In the vicinity of Guangzhou, the crystal is called Jingyu, which is also known as the fish brain. The mountain people in Donghai County, Jiangsu Province, discovered that the crystal will be “fire-fighting” and gave it a common name for the stone.