Natural agate is a valuable gem
Recently, the Yangtze River Three Gorges appears piece of agate resembles the shape of horse brain magic stone, so many people by surprise. In fact, the stone is an important member of the family of quartz Pearl ring - Agate. Agate, magnificent, hard, colorful, variety, and output in a natural state of rare and precious stones have three characteristics required. Therefore, since ancient times it was regarded as beautiful, happiness, luck and a symbol of wealth, loved by the people of the world.
Before the Qing Dynasty, China's output is not a natural agate, has been a valuable gem, has a higher social status, and was covered a layer of mystery. Agate handicrafts and the most popular outside the Central Plains region, one of tribute, have long been regarded as a treasure. But the past century, this glorious tradition for thousands of years why gems will gradually stepped down, into the ordinary people home? Here, we start from the source to find the reason.
Ions with different pigments, impurities as a result create a different ring and the pattern of the agate, its variety, can be described as colorful, so the history of China there are "thousands of Agate million species Yu-do." These opaque, translucent and transparent agate red, blue, green, verdant, cinnamon, brown, purple, gray, black and other colors, there are concentric, layered, corrugated-like, zebra-like pattern, etc., with oil sheen, glass gloss.
If classified according to morphological characteristics, agate can be divided into the following varieties: Onyx (including sardonyx, cut-off sub-agate), red onyx, moss agate (including dendritic agate), Moonstone Freshwater pearls (including the Walled City Agate) , fire agate, onyx and other water-gall. Nanjing is famous for "stone" is a concentric pattern of a structure agate. Pearl bracelet
Whether it is the legendary Yellow Emperor period of agate urns, Ku era agate urns, or before the Eastern Han Dynasty "Red Jade" or "Red King", from the Buddhist or Eastern Han Dynasty and after the Pearl pendant "horse brain" implies the concept of color, have shows that: China since ancient times will be in the red varieties of agate as authentic, regarded as a top grade. Therefore, China's antiques row of the image there is a saying that "no red agate I poor."
Of course, in terms of agate, very good green agate, black onyx or blue agate and red agate, as is a very rare species, the value of money.
Before the Qing Dynasty, China's output is not a natural agate, has been a valuable gem, has a higher social status, and was covered a layer of mystery. Agate handicrafts and the most popular outside the Central Plains region, one of tribute, have long been regarded as a treasure. But the past century, this glorious tradition for thousands of years why gems will gradually stepped down, into the ordinary people home? Here, we start from the source to find the reason.
Ions with different pigments, impurities as a result create a different ring and the pattern of the agate, its variety, can be described as colorful, so the history of China there are "thousands of Agate million species Yu-do." These opaque, translucent and transparent agate red, blue, green, verdant, cinnamon, brown, purple, gray, black and other colors, there are concentric, layered, corrugated-like, zebra-like pattern, etc., with oil sheen, glass gloss.
If classified according to morphological characteristics, agate can be divided into the following varieties: Onyx (including sardonyx, cut-off sub-agate), red onyx, moss agate (including dendritic agate), Moonstone Freshwater pearls (including the Walled City Agate) , fire agate, onyx and other water-gall. Nanjing is famous for "stone" is a concentric pattern of a structure agate. Pearl bracelet
Whether it is the legendary Yellow Emperor period of agate urns, Ku era agate urns, or before the Eastern Han Dynasty "Red Jade" or "Red King", from the Buddhist or Eastern Han Dynasty and after the Pearl pendant "horse brain" implies the concept of color, have shows that: China since ancient times will be in the red varieties of agate as authentic, regarded as a top grade. Therefore, China's antiques row of the image there is a saying that "no red agate I poor."
Of course, in terms of agate, very good green agate, black onyx or blue agate and red agate, as is a very rare species, the value of money.