When I came to Denmark, I heard that amber is the most beautiful thing. According to legend, amber is the tear of a mermaid. These "tears" are very precious and take thousands of years to form. Once, I went to the island of Mern in the southeast of Denmark-a place called "Dream Island". It is reported that along this coastline, tourists can find some paleontological fossils and amber. Looking around, except the sea, there are cliffs and trees all around. The rocks here are the products of Cretaceous (65.438+0.37 billion years ago to 67 million years ago). Along the steep cliff, there are hundreds of wooden steps. Go down the stairs and come to the beach full of rocks and seaweed. I bent down to search for a treasure made of resin that has changed for thousands of years, just like an amber collector. However, if you want to find real amber, you must go to the Danish Amber Room in Newport, Copenhagen.

The Danish Amber Hall has a collection of exquisite amber products, which, like the old shops in China, enjoys a high reputation in Denmark. It is said that only gem-grade amber materials can enter this amber room. Every day, as soon as the purple wooden door of Amber Hall is opened, tourists wander in. This shop with the longest history and the largest scale in the world, which integrates the production and sales of amber art, has become a prominent amber family after three generations of struggle. The owner of the Amber Room has a nice China name-Van Allen. His father is a famous Danish silversmith, and he made many famous silverware works. In the late 1980s, Mr. Fan became attached to Amber and married Miss Taiwan Province Wu Tong. Since then, the couple have double-repaired, and the production and management of amber have become more elaborate. Miss Wu has a high artistic accomplishment and cultural taste. She loves art jewelry and is proficient in design and production. Her speech is full of wisdom. During the conversation, I felt that she was quite familiar with the history and culture of amber.

The jewelry in Amber Hall has Danish design style. The so-called Danish design is an art that integrates technology, aesthetics, human body and psychology, and it is also an art that combines high technology with humanistic spirit. Although most of them are hand-made, their processing and creation do not reveal artificial traces, giving people a natural sense of splendor. Because of the high-quality amber business, Mr. Fan's business is getting better and better. Since 1992, the world amber market has been hit, and hundreds of enterprises in Russia and Poland have closed down because of unprofitable, but Danish amber rooms have been prosperous and stable. They have established chain stores and cooperative institutions all over the world, and have considerable sales.

Denmark was the first country in the world to discover amber. /kloc-during the Danish boom in the 0/4th century, most countries along the Baltic Sea were ruled by Denmark. At that time, amber was circulated in the market as a Nordic currency, and at the same time, as the most precious gem ornament, it paid tribute to the noble Roman Empire. A piece of amber is about the value of a slave. Europeans wear amber to ward off evil spirits. They also make hallows, crosses and shrines out of amber. It is said that the cross can only be made of amber, because amber is regarded as a sacred object on the earth. Today, amber is still a traditional gem of Europeans, as valuable as gold and silver. When getting married, the most precious gift for the bride is a necklace made of large amber beads. Amber is also a token given to each other by lovers. As the birthplace of amber, the Danes also opened up a famous amber trade road in world history, which the Danes proudly called "Amber Road". According to the information recorded in the Danish Amber Room, the "Amber Road" can reach the Mediterranean, Persia, India, China and beyond from jutland in northern Denmark through the Baltic ports. It is said that the gift given by ancient westerners to Emperor China was amber.

In the Amber Room Museum in Denmark, I was an eye-opener. There are hundreds of rare amber treasures in the museum, and the amber knowledge is introduced to visitors in detail. Amber is a prehistoric fossil of turpentine, which has undergone millions of years of natural changes. The beauty of amber is indescribable. What is particularly surprising is that there are more than a thousand kinds of mosquitoes, gnats, flies, ants and other small insects and various plants sleeping in amber. So far, the largest piece of amber discovered by human beings is in the London Museum of Natural History. This piece of amber weighs 15.25 kg and is produced in Myanmar. The largest piece of Baltic amber, weighing 10.478 kg, is also collected in the Amber House Museum in Denmark, which was salvaged by a fisherman who fished lobsters with a fishing net in Denmark. Because it accidentally knocked off a piece during handling, its weight was reduced to 8.866 kg, which is the treasure of the town hall of the Amber House Museum.

In the early years, some people in Denmark specialized in amber mining. They know when amber is easy to pick. After the storm, the sea became calm. People can tie a basket around their waist like fishing and weave a special net to "catch" amber. In addition to the sea, amber is hidden deep underground. Today, amber has been found in more than 200 places in the world. ▲