Hongyuan, a magical snowy plateau, here has a vast grassland, mysterious religion, industrious people, unique culture, making it a paradise for many people to dream; yak is one of the earliest domesticated livestock of the Tibetan ancestors, it has accompanied the Hongyuan Tibetan people to survive to this day; for thousands of years, yaks and Hongyuan Tibetan people have accompanied each other, achieving the people's clothing, food, housing, travel, transportation, burning, and farming, involving the plateau's politics, education, commerce, warfare, entertainment, medicine, and use, and profoundly affected their spiritual character!
Yak is a beautiful and sacred animal, people on the Western Sichuan Plateau carved the yak skull with scriptures as a sacrifice, at the same time people also use the yak bone as a unique ornament, with their dexterous hands, the yak bone polished out of their ancestors' totem worship Tibetan ornaments, primitive nature, rugged and bold, to the wearer to add a wild charm! Today, I will talk to you about it and various cultural toys made from yak bones.
Yak bone marrow is one of the traditional precious foods of the Tibetan people, and since ancient times, there have been records: "bone marrow can replenish bone marrow, strengthen muscles and bones, and prolong life". Yak bone marrow taste spicy, sexual temperature, return to the liver, kidney meridians; functional temperature to make up for the cold, strengthen the muscles and bones; used for cold and wet paralysis, muscle and bone pain, waist and knee weakness to nourish the lungs and kidneys, fill the lean marrow; weak labor, bone impotence and weakness, etc.; lung and kidney deficiency, more wheezing and cough, thirst and drinking, dry skin, hand and foot chapped, etc., have a very good effect.
Modern analysis shows that yak bone contains calcium, copper, zinc and other elements and bone gel peptides, polysaccharides, etc., which promote bone development and bone wound healing content is higher than that of general herbivores bones. The whole body of the yak is a treasure, the Tibetan people are inseparable from it, people drink yak milk, eat yak beef, roast yak dung, its hair can be used as clothes or tents, skin is a good material for tanning, it can be used for farming, but also as a means of transport on the plateau, providing local herders with milk, meat, wool, servitude, fuel and other necessities of production and life, yak bones have become a treasure for our literary enthusiasts.
First of all, the prepared yak bone is cut open and stewed, 15 to 20 minutes can be too long will destroy the bone, boiling water add defatting powder or baking soda (we call noodles in the north) and stew for another 10 minutes, and then fish out the water and then carry out the third degreasing: 30 & industrial hydrogen peroxide dilution triple soaked for 4 hours, the concentration is too high or soaked for too long will also destroy the bone, the time to fish out the yin dry can be. The grinding process first uses 180 mesh sandpaper, the inner and outer round grinding process is the same, polished out flat and smooth, until switch to 2000 mesh sandpaper sandpaper and then three times, so that the polishing effect will be great!
The real yak jewelry has a bone texture or a small number of gaps, its reverse side generally has a pattern, made of yak bone, full of rough pure Tibetan style, yak bone compared to other cattle bone has a very good bone, more suitable for processing finished products and play, this bone raw material is through what we said before the improved degreasing process, so that the color is closer to ivory white, so that after the disk play, the pulp sound and color will be more beautiful and good-looking.
Yak bone carries is the simplicity of the years, the original self, freedom, you playmates in the entry of cattle bone literary play products is the first thing to determine whether it is bone meal suppression, this low-end pressed goods are usually seen through the naked eye, there is no natural cow bone texture and texture so flexible and delicate, followed by excessive bleaching and bone density difference (large gap) of the cow bone do not start, this kind of beef bone does not have the value of playing! Destructive experimental method to verify glue injection and plastic products, directly on the back of the fire with a fire to smell, if it is glue injection or plastic products will quickly melt and sticky and smelly, because bone products are extremely difficult to burn!
Yak bone is simple and natural, simple and gorgeous, is the perfect combination of tradition and the times of the boutique; in the red plains, yak bone is the most benign holy relic, there is a living blood and nourishment, ward off evil spirits, protect the body, protect the peace effect, the side must be full of auspicious cause; yak bone jewelry is a mascot with the meaning of attracting wealth and blessings, bringing luck, warding off evil and ensuring peace, it is said that it can indeed bring people good luck, fortune, career, love, happiness, study and all other good luck; yak bone has always been an indispensable ornament on the body and head of the ancient Tibetan people. Beautiful Tibetan ornaments are born with the magic of that land, but the rough appearance has exquisite connotations!
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