Bloodstone, together with Shoushan Stone, Qingtian Stone and Balin Stone, enjoys the reputation of "Four National Stones" in China. Mainly used as seal or craft carving material. China first discovered Yuyanshan bloodstone in Changhua, Zhejiang. Later, bahrain bloodstone was discovered in Bahrain Right Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. In 1990s, bloodstone was discovered in Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and Xinjiang.
Chicken blood stone, Tian Huangshi and Qingtian light frozen stone are also called the three treasures of Indian stone. Chicken blood stone has made a unique contribution to the development of Indian culture in China, and at the same time, it has formed a unique school of "chicken blood" carving in jade carving technology, and its works are praised as "magnificent, exquisite, elegant and colorful".
Because the output of bloodstone is quite limited, the market price is enduring.
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Bloodstone contains minerals such as Cinnabar, (Cinnabar), Yingshi, calcite, stibnite, dickite, kaolinite and dolomite, and most of them contain sulfide and silicate minerals with various components such as mercury sulfide. Different producing areas have different texture components, but they are all inseparable from the mercury sulfide component and olivine component of iron oxide.
Bloodstone consists of ground and blood. It is generally believed that the mineral composition of blood is mainly cinnabar. The composition of "ground", such as Changhua bloodstone, is mainly composed of clay minerals, including dickite, but also contains a considerable amount of kaolinite, alunite, halloysite, timely and pyrite.
In the early days, ancient literati and bureaucrats used bloodstone to make seals, which is a very famous stone. Bahrain bloodstone is mainly kaolinite and diaspore.
The main mineral components of fine black frozen bloodstone and hibiscus frozen bloodstone are dickite and cinnabar; A few years ago, a dense block similar to "Jindinghong" was found at the top of a gold mine in Jilin, in which cinnabar is very fine, hard and delicate, and it is also a kind of hard stone containing cinnabar, which is called cinnabar jade locally.
Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-bloodstone