Chicken blood stone is a ground stone with tatsu sand strips, named after the bright red tatsu sand (cinnabar) that resembles chicken blood. Chicken blood stone contains tatsu sand (cinnabar), quartz, and chalcedony 35%-45%. Magnetite, hematite 6%-12%. Tatsusa is about 5%-8%.
Chicken blood stone is juxtaposed with Shoushan stone and Tian Huangshi, and enjoys the reputation of China's "four major national stones". It is mainly used as a stamp or craft engraving material. The earliest chinese discovery of Yuyan mountain chicken blood stone in Changhua, Zhejiang. Later, the Bahrain Chicken Blood Stone of the Bahrain Right Banner in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia was discovered. In the 1990s, chicken blood stones were found in Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and other places.
Changhua chicken blood stone is produced in The source of the Grand Canyon in western Zhejiang, 50 kilometers west of Changhua Town, Lin'an City, Zhejiang Province - Yuyan Mountain at an altitude of more than 1300 meters, belongs to the Tianmu Mountain System, is the northern branch of the Xianxialing Mountain Range, surrounded by mountains, steep mountains, alpine canyons have formed unique climatic conditions, the local folk song is: Banqiao straight through, wind and rain continue to trace. Cover the quilt in summer and snowflakes flutter in October. In the production area of chicken blood stone, there are many legends about chicken blood stone, one of which is the phoenix locust, and the blood is sprinkled on the Jade Rock Mountain.
Changhua soft bottom chicken blood stone
Myths and legends
Legend has it that in ancient times, when a pair of beautiful phoenixes soared in the heavenly court, they heard the sound of mourning from time to time, looked down, and saw that locusts were plagued, plagues were prevalent, crops were not long, their eyes were desolate, and the people were miserable. Seeing this, the good and righteous phoenix decided to use his own strength to eliminate the locust plague, disperse the plague, and help the living beings. Through hard work, the good wishes were fulfilled, and the grateful people asked the phoenix to stay and bathe in morning songs and twilight songs together. The phoenix was touched by the sincerity of the people, and built a phoenix swamp on the top of a mountain - Kangshan Ridge, and soon around the phoenix swamp, all the mountain rocks became white and transparent, like white jade, and the jade rock mountain got its name. Hundreds of birds on Yuyan Mountain sing in unison, and the people under Yuyan Mountain live and work in peace and contentment. But at this moment, a pair of strong birds and lions came from the mountain, and they saw that the phoenix nest lived on such a beautiful mountain, creating such a brilliant performance, and they were jealous of the people's favor, so they decided to drive the phoenix away and occupy the phoenix swamp. One day, just as the female phoenix entered the incubation period, the male phoenix went out to forage for food, sneaked into the phoenix's nest, attacked the female phoenix, the female phoenix bravely fought with it, and the battle of the phoenix and lion made the wind on Yuyan Mountain sound and the sun and moon were dark. When the male phoenix returned to the nest, the female phoenix was pecked by the bird lion and broke a leg, and the blood spilled on the jade rock mountain, and finally, the phoenix defeated the bird lion with sadness and anger by its own wisdom and strength, and tearfully buried the phoenix egg that had been innocently trampled and flew away.
When the phoenix departed, the people mourned greatly, and they prayed to heaven and asked the gods to bless the righteous phoenix. The sincerity of the people, the cry of the phoenix, touched the heavens and the earth. The Jade Emperor sent the crown prince Xia Fan to inspect the facts, and ordered Jizo Bodhisattva to turn the phoenix blood and phoenix eggs into beautiful Danshi, and gave the Danshi the power to turn each danshi into a fierce ji, drive away evil and promote good, and punish evil and love. Since then, the phoenix blood and phoenix eggs on Yuyan Mountain have been buried for thousands of years, and have become today's rare and precious - chicken blood stone, chicken blood stone should have been called phoenix blood stone, which is the color found by later generations when mining and the freshly slaughtered chicken blood droplets on the jade, before the habit of calling it "chicken blood stone".
Although the legend is not believed, it has added a secret and romantic color to the chicken blood stone and enriched its cultural connotation. The so-called chicken blood stone can revitalize the family and avoid evil, and it has been passed down to this day. It is precisely because of this that he has dumped a vast number of emperors and generals, scholars, and rich giants in the past hundred years. In the Qing Dynasty, the emperors and empresses who used Changhua chicken blood stone to carve jade seals were the most numerous, including Qianlong, Jiaqing, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Xuantong, Cixi and so on. At the same time, chicken blood stone was listed as a precious jade stone, in the Qing Dynasty official costumes, a flower plume red top is the highest grade, chicken blood red was once coral red, agate red as the highest honor of the top flower decoration.
Chicken blood stone is a precious jade native to China, with the largest output of Changhua in Zhejiang, also known as Changhua chicken blood stone. In the collection industry, the most important thing is the origin, and the Changhua Chicken Bloodstone Mine also has old pits and new pits. The chicken blood stone in the old pit is better than the new pit in texture and blood color, and is the most expensive chicken blood stone breed on the market at present, and the price is generally 2 to 3 times that of the new pit. The chicken blood stone in Changhua Xinkeng is more expensive than the chicken blood stone in the rest of the region. Guangxi Guilin chicken blood stone because of the silicon-related texture of hard and more into the high-grade jade class, due to the limited output and the public love of the basic supply of short supply, the price is soaring, to a men's bracelet as an example in 2010 more than 5,000 yuan to 2013 sold to more than 10,000 yuan.
In addition, the amount and vividness of the blood color of chicken bloodstone also determines its price. Chicken blood stone blood color has bright red, positive red, dark red, light red, purple red and other kinds, the shape of the block red, strip red, star red, Xia red and so on. Generally speaking, it is best to have more blood, bright color and beautiful shape; blood quality is better to have a sense of depth and thickness, blood aggregation and balanced distribution. Those with less than 10% blood color are average, those with less than 30% are mid-range, those with more than 50% are precious, and those with more than 70% are very precious. All red is the top, known as the "Big Red Robe".
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