In 2006, a Filipino fisherman caught a giant brick while going out to sea to fish, and it actually hid a 68-pound pearl. Fishermen unknowingly hid the pearl under their beds for 10 years, until a fire brought it back to life, and the value of experts was as high as 660 million yuan.
How was this brick discovered, and what is the story behind the giant pearl?
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Among the traditional treasures of Chinese Buddhism, the brick is listed with gold, silver, glass, agate, coral and pearl as the Seven Treasures of Buddhism, of which the stone is the first of the Seven Treasures of Buddhism, symbolizing nobility and purity.
It is much larger than ordinary marine shells, the largest diameter can reach 2 meters, and it and pearls, corals, amber are known as the four major organic gemstones in the West.
In recent years, the price of this Buddhist relic has been high, and the price of some finished products is even more expensive than gold. The value of the brick will soar all the way to two major factors: beauty and faith.
The first is the religious significance, the mainland is the world's largest number of Buddhist believers in the country, as a Buddhist treasure, it is naturally sought after by the majority of believers.
In The Buddhist saying, the brick can absorb the aura of the sea, contains a kind of righteous qi, and can ward off evil qi. It has the role of town house, wealth, health, calm and calm, and stabilize the aura.
Nowadays, many people will make a Buddha bead on their body, or make a handicraft and put it on the bed, which can bring blessings to themselves.
The second is that as one of the most pure white treasures in the world, the stone has a high ornamental value, and the material of the stone is very hard and thick, and it is easier to store.
The appearance of the stone is a very soft and delicate white or beige, with excellent luster, and after careful carving by the craftsmen, the crafts made are no less than jade.
In fact, the brick has a long history in the mainland, the earliest time appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when people found the figure of the brick on the seashore.
Because the surface of the brick has a series of ravines, it looks like a canal left behind after the carriage passes, and because of its hard shell, it is named "Brick".
At that time, the brick was already very precious, because of the limitations of technical conditions, people wanted to obtain the stone brick is extremely difficult, the rarity is precious, and the brick has become a treasure in people's eyes.
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Nowadays, when it comes to bricks, everyone may be a little less common, but if you say pearls, it is estimated that many people are eager to collect more.
Pearls, a very valuable gemstone, appear in the shell, and pearls also appear in the shell. Ordinary pearls are only 10 grams in size, but a pearl weighing 68 pounds has been found in the Philippines.
In 2006, a fisherman in the Philippines went out to sea to fish as usual when suddenly his anchor got stuck. He immediately pulled the anchor up, only to find a huge shell. This shell is not ordinary, as big as a basketball, in fact, this is the aforementioned giant clam.
Generally speaking, such a brick will not appear here, probably because of the change of weather and sea water, which brought this brick here.
As soon as the fisherman knocked open the shell, a huge pearl appeared inside. The pearl weighs 68 pounds, is 60 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide.
The pearl was much larger than the largest pearl in the world at the time, but the fisherman did not seem to know the value of the pearl, so he immediately placed the pearl under the bed, which was 10 years.
During this period, the fishermen also cherished this treasure, he thought it was a gift from heaven to himself, and he would touch this pearl before every time he went to sea, hoping that heaven would bring him good luck again.
This pearl has been placed under the fishermen's bed for 10 years, and it should be said that the fishermen's preservation is also very good, and after so many years, there is not much wear.
Until 2016, there was a fire in the fisherman's home, and because the house needed to be repaired after it was burned, the fishermen looked at the huge pearl and felt that the pearl was too heavy to put at home. The fishermen then gave the pearl to their aunt, who worked at the Tourism Bureau.
When her aunt saw the pearl, she was calmed on the spot, she had never seen a pearl so big, so she suggested that her nephew submit the pearl to the local government for identification.
As a result, experts can't see it, which is the world's largest pearl, worth more than 100 million US dollars, equivalent to 660 million yuan. Not to mention the value of the pearl itself, the title of the world's largest pearl alone is already extremely collectible.
The fishermen were overjoyed to learn that their dream of getting rich overnight was about to come true, but the fishermen finally decided to hand over this rare treasure to the local government.
The pearl is currently on display in the municipal hall of the local government, and many tourists to the Philippines will go to see the world's largest pearl.
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Before the pearl was discovered, the world's largest pearl was stored in the San Francisco Bank in the United States, and the name of the pearl was "Allah Pearl", but now the Pearl of Allah can only be ranked second in front of the newly unveiled giant pearl.
In May 1934, in the waters off the island of Palawan in the Philippines, a group of Daya people were diving in the sea. Suddenly, a diver's hand was caught in a hand by a giant brick, and due to the huge bite force, the diver could not get out no matter how he broke free, and eventually drowned in the water because of the exhaustion of oxygen.
Later, the fellow divers salvaged the shell on the shore and pried the mussel shell open with stones, revealing a strangely shaped pearl inside. The pearl weighed 13 pounds, 24 centimeters long and 14 centimeters wide, and although it now seems to be less than half of the largest pearl in the previous article, it was enough to shock the world at the time.
Then the tribesmen gave the pearl to the leader of their tribe, because the leader believed in Islam, he believed that this pearl was a treasure given to him by the Allah of Allah, so he named it "Allah Pearl".
At that time, the Philippines was still a colony of the United States, so the pearl quickly came to the hands of the Americans, and after expert identification, the pearl was worth 40 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 100 million yuan.
But now it seems that this pearl can only be a small witch compared to the giant pearl found later. Some people wonder why the Philippines frequently discovers such a huge pearl, and twice appears to break the world record.
This is because the coast of the Philippines has extremely rich marine resources, and many pots will come here along the ocean current, and naturally there will be many pearls.
However, do not think that this is the way to go to the Philippines to fish for bricks, the Philippine government attaches great importance to environmental protection, very much opposed to people fishing in private, once found will be severely punished.
In order to protect the environment and biological diversity of nature, we still don't want to fight these bricks. And as a sacred relic of Buddhism, we should let them return to nature and let them continue to guard the fishermen who go out to sea in the sea.