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Tourmaline, also known as wish stone, has a weak energy of its own and is a gemstone that tends to be absorbent. Because of the harmonic sound of "tourmaline" and "avoiding evil spirits", it is often regarded as the main jewel of Nafu exorcism.
origin
In 1500, a Portuguese exploration team discovered a gem in Brazil that shone with colorful neon. Like a rainbow shooting from the sky to the center of the earth, the ordinary stones bathed under the rainbow have acquired the various colors of the world along the way, and the crystal clarity has been refined. This gem hidden at the foot of the rainbow is called tourmaline by posterity, and is also known as the "rainbow that falls into the world". At present, tourmaline and ruby, sapphire, aquamarine, tanzanite, emerald, etc., gemstones with natural colors are summarized into the category of colored gemstones, which are loved by the public and have a huge market value-added space.
Historical development
The word "tourmaline" first appeared in China during the Qing Dynasty. In the classics of the Qing Dynasty, there was a relevant record: "The name of Bi Ya Mo, the Chinese book, is not detailed." Qinghui Dian Tuyun: Concubines use Biya at the top. Yu Hengzhi of the Yunnan Sea said: "Bixiaxi, One Bixia, one Bixia; Yu ji did Bixia Xi again. But the people of this world are called Biya, or Bixi, the Seal Of the Spirit Stone, but there is no question about the origin of their name, but if they are foreign dialects, they will undoubtedly hear it. "The tourmaline of the "Harmony of Han Sancai Tuhui" is purified with a fox array.
In some historical works after the Qing Dynasty, the titles of "Tourmaline", "Bixiaxi", "Xi lingshi" and so on have also been found, while people in modern society call this strange gemstone tourmaline. Legend has it that tourmaline was particularly loved by Empress Dowager Cixi, who had many tourmaline jewelry in her funeral offerings, including precious varieties such as watermelon tourmaline. There are many types of tourmaline jewelry, such as tourmaline bracelets, tourmaline rings, tourmaline pendants, and so on.
Tourmaline is one of the materials worn by the officials of the first and second pins, and is also used to make the beads they wear. At the same time, tourmaline was also the favorite of Empress Dowager Cixi, so in the era of Empress Dowager Cixi, tourmaline received unprecedented attention in China. In addition to her love for jadeite, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in charge of the imperial government, was also very fond of the colorful and ever-changing tourmaline, and was a complete tourmaline fan. Among the burials of Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, there is a lotus flower carved from tourmaline, weighing 36 taels of 8 yuan, and a pillow made of tourmaline, which was worth 750,000 taels of silver at that time.
Among the hundreds of rare treasures in the Forbidden City in Beijing, there is a huge pink tourmaline buckle called the best of the Qing Dynasty tourmalines, and the buckle is made of pink tourmaline embedded in the silver silk tray, which is transparent and has a large volume and cotton pattern. Silver tore silk double money pattern ring set, the back of the silver tray engraved with small beads "longevity without borders" "life forever Chang", next to the "Hongxing" "foot pattern" stamp, the middle of the fine silk rope pattern double "shou" and double "Fu", this tourmaline length 5.5cm, the widest 5.2cm, tourmaline is transparent and peach for the treasure, in the Qing Dynasty period is more precious. |
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