Changhua chicken blood stone is a precious gemstone unique to China, with a bright red color like chicken blood and a natural beauty like jade, and has always been cherished as much as jewel jadeite, and is well-known at home and abroad as a "national treasure". The "Zhejiang Tongzhi" revised by Qianlongnian of the Qing Dynasty once recorded: "Changhua County produces seal stones, red dots such as cinnabar, and there are also bruises and purples such as tortoiseshells, which are good and cute to play, but they are rare nearby."
Chicken blood stone is a unique gemstone variety in China, because the stone has a bright red like chicken blood cinnabar and named, the color is gorgeous, the texture is transparent and delicate chicken blood stone has always been cherished, the beautiful meaning of "good luck when the head" also makes it highly sought after in the collection market, the price continues to rise
The earliest chicken blood stone found in China was in Changhua, Zhejiang, and later the Bahrain chicken blood stone of the Bahrain Right Banner in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia was found. In the 1990s, chicken blood stone was found in Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and other places, but in terms of production and texture, the market is still the best recognition of Changhua chicken blood stone.
Generally speaking, the "land" is the "waiyu" of the Changhua chicken blood stone, which is commonly known as "dizi". Roughly divided into ten grades, these are in line with the proverb "Although the lotus flower is good, it must also be lined with green leaves." ”
1. Frozen ground: also known as "glass ground", translucent, micro-powder. Specifically: mutton fat jelly; yellow frozen ground (with beige jelly);
Horn jelly (dark gray like buffalo horn jelly); lotus powder jelly ground (dark pink, such as cooked lotus powder paste). Although frozen land can be divided into the above four types,
But they all have a common requirement: "translucent, such as glass" to at least "micro-transparent".
2. White jade land: the transparency is not as good as the frozen land, but it requires white and flawless, pure and immaculate. Species are, jade white, beige,
Milky yellow can also belong to this category. The key requirements for this type are: "pure and free of noise penetration".
3. Lotus powder: the transparency is not as good as the frozen ground, still requires pure and flawless, pink and moist.
4. Yellow chestnut land: Yellow as ripe chestnut color, sometimes there are radish silky stripes, the color is like field yellow.
5. Dark horn land, dark gray nearly black as buffalo horn, but requires the luster of jade. (Distinguish from the horn jelly, which is translucent and the black horn is less transparent than the horn jelly.) ）
6. Red Xiadi: And the composition of fine red dots and red spots, as beautiful as the morning sun and the sunset.
7. Liu Guanzhangdi: It is actually black and white on the ground, plus chicken blood red, also known as "Taoyuan Three Knots".
8. Light gray ground: Although the ground is opaque, it is also light gray and elegant, pure and colorless.
9. Variegated flower fields: There are more than 2 kinds of colors mixed, which are not included in the above places.
10. Gray and white ground: similar in color after cement pouring, lacking the aura of jade land, it is the worst grade in the ground.
Blood: The blood in "Chicken Blood Stone" is of course an important part of the Changhua Chicken Blood Stone. This needs to be from both the blood color and the blood form
Come and see. The color and shape of the blood are the decisive factors in the identification of Changhua chicken blood stone masterpieces, treasures and superior products.
Among China's national stones, Changhua chicken blood stone has "four natures": uniqueness - according to the survey of China's geological department and the records of geological literature of various countries, no other countries in the world have found such minerals; Peculiarity - shape, color is strange, but also special, very rare; Ornamental - beautiful shape, color, texture and texture, it is difficult to play and benefit from it; Culture - there is a place in traditional culture, the emperor loves, the cloth cherishes.
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