The snail (scientific name) was made into a handicraft.
Small and lovely Dragon Palace Weng Rong snail, colorful pen snail, flamboyant bone snail, mottled and elegant taro snail, natural treasure snail... The wonderful form of these "bone treasures" attracts Liu Chenyu, a 26-year-old Xining boy, who likes to collect various conchs and shells since he was a child, which has reached more than 200 kinds.
The Nautilus is Liu Chenyu's treasure.
Entering Liu Chenyu's home, the first thing that catches your eye is the conch and shells placed in the living room cabinet. A row of transparent cabinets about 4 meters long and nearly 3 meters high, filled with hundreds of kinds of conchs, as well as specimens of marine life such as tabby shellfish, blood clams, starfish, etc., with a blue background with corals, sailing models and other decorations, so that the whole living room is full of marine atmosphere.
The shellfish collected by Liu Chenyu include blood clams (scientific names), shell parasitic flowers (scientific names), and pattern clams (scientific names).
In Liu Chenyu's bedroom, a conch with long spines attracted the attention of reporters. Liu Chenyu introduced that this conch is called "Venus bone snail", this type of conch is mainly produced in Indonesia, from the head of the snail to the end of the snail is 6 cm long, through the evolution into a strange shape, become sharp, slender, and mainly carnivorous. The bone snail shape is beautiful, up to 12 centimeters long, and this natural carving is very popular with collectors. He also said that in Greek mythology, Venus, the god of love, often used bone snails to comb her hair, and he tried bone snails to comb her hair, and the effect was very good.
Venus bone snail (scientific name).
"I saw the sea for the first time when I was 8 years old, collected my first conch in the rocks, and the first thing that attracted me was its color, which was many years ago." Liu Chenyu recalled his path of collection. When it comes to conch, Liu Chenyu is an expert. Several nautiluses placed in the home look the same, but are actually divided into 4 varieties. He introduced: "The size, shape and depth of the 'navel' of different types of nautilus markings are different, some species are more common, some species are very rare, and the value is far apart. For example, a nautilus with a natural 'eye hole', many literature believes that it is extremely rare, so some unscrupulous traders will give many common types of nautilus holes to pretend to be natural 'eye hole' nautilus. In order not to be deceived when buying, I have figured out a set of methods to distinguish between true and false 'eye holes'. ”
Rose snail (scientific name).
Chen Xiaohong, Liu Chenyu's mother, said that her son likes to collect seafood shells from childhood, and sometimes takes his son to Qingdao to travel and pick conch by the sea. After work, every time Liu Chenyu travels to coastal cities for business and tourism, he does not forget to visit the local maritime museum, as small as a conch shell like a soybean, as large as a baby bath-like car olive shell, as long as he thinks it is worth collecting, he must buy it home. From primary school to now, Liu Chenyu's footprints in search of conch and shells have spread to dozens of cities, villages and small islands in China such as Qingdao, Dalian and Xiamen.
Ta Snail (scientific name).
In addition to a room full of conch and shells, Liu Chenyu has also made dozens of marine life handicrafts. Liu Chenyu said: "I love the sea, but also love marine life. I hope that in the future, I will have the opportunity to build a conch museum in Xining, which will permanently exhibit conch and shells and call on people to protect the ocean. ”
Reporter Qi Xiaojun text/photo
Author: Qi Xiaojun Source: Xihai Metropolis Daily