What is tourmaline and its historical origin?
Tourmaline is the handicraft name of Tourmaline, and Tourmaline is a kind of jewelry of Tourmaline family. It is a borosilicate crystal, which contains chemical elements such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium and potassium, and presents various colors. The origin of tourmaline, 1500, a Portuguese expedition discovered a gem in Brazil, which actually shone with colorful neon lights. Just like a rainbow shooting from the sky to the center of the earth, ordinary stones bathed in the rainbow got all kinds of colors contained in the world along the way and were washed crystal clear. This kind of gem hidden in the foothold of rainbow is called tourmaline by later generations, and it is also called "rainbow falling into the world". In China, the word "tourmaline" first appeared in the Qing Dynasty. Tourmaline is one of the materials for first-class and second-class officials to wear flower feathers, and it is also the material for making the beads they wear. At the same time, tourmaline is also the favorite of Empress Dowager Cixi. Therefore, in the era of Empress Dowager Cixi, tourmaline received unprecedented attention in China. Empress Dowager Cixi, who monopolized the state affairs, not only had a soft spot for jadeite, but also for colorful tourmaline. She is a complete tourmaline fan. In the funeral of Empress Dowager Cixi in the Qing Dynasty, there was a lotus carved from tourmaline, weighing 3,628 yuan, and a pillow made of tourmaline was worth 752,000 silver at that time.