January 30, 2024
What is amber? Western legend says it's the tears of the gods, Oriental people used to think it's the soul of a tiger, textbooks say it's pine resin flowing in the seaside pine forest under the scorching sun a long, long time ago, and today they are regular visitors to jewelry counters!
Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty continued the policy of his father, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, to "rest and recuperate" to persuade farmers and mulberries, and shouted the slogan of "gold and jade, hunger and cold, cold and clothing", advocating the abandonment of extravagance, going all out to grasp production, and realizing the prosperity of the country and the strength of the people.
However, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty probably ignored that there is also a unique kind of jewelry in the so-called "gold pearl jade", which can be used as jewelry decoration or medicine to cure diseases and save people, which is the famous amber.
Amber has a lot of origins, from the seven treasures of Buddhism to the world's four major organic gemstones, amber is among them, in the Western world, amber has a large number of fans and legends, it can be said that the status of amber in the minds of Europeans is similar to the pursuit of jade by Chinese people.
What's more, amber not only has decorative, medicinal and collectible value, because in its special formation process, it occasionally wraps plants, such as flowers, stems, leaves, seeds, or small animals, and these inclusions can often provide irreplaceable precious materials for paleontologists to study species evolution and climate change, so as to have great scientific value.
They have inspired people to create, such as in the movie "Jurassic Park", scientists extracted the remaining dinosaur blood from ancient mosquitoes in amber, extracted dinosaur genetic information, and used this information to resurrect dinosaurs.
So what are the types of amber that are produced by pine trees? how is it mined, why is amber a time capsule, and how can we better distinguish the authenticity of amber? Here we will reveal the answers to each of these questions.
Jade is not cut, not into a tool, at this point amber is the same, no matter how high-quality amber is not carefully pondered is a stubborn stone after all, at the end of the event each parent-child family will also get a selection of Baltic worm pearl rough stone, polish and polish by hand, polish a piece of amber pendant of their own.
Come on, join us in interpreting the story in Amber, think about the relationship between talent and hard work, polish your own amber, and be a time traveler!