The evolution of the name of red agate in the Warring States period was discovered in Beipiao a long time ago, but it did not attract widespread attention at that time. According to 86-year-old Uncle Li from Beigou Village, Quanjuyong Township, beipiao city, when he was young, he found obvious excavation marks on Agate Mountain and picked up a stone axe near the scene. In 2008, Zhan was discovered in large quantities and entered the market. At that time, people called this kind of stone colored stone and colored agate, and later called it Zhan Guo Hong. With the increasing fame of Zhan Guohong, many stone friends asked: Who came up with the name Zhan Guohong?
It can only be said that the origin of various names of Warring States Red is social cognition, which fully embodies the wisdom of the masses. This situation also exists on ornamental stones, which is normal. At present, there are three sources for the naming of strange stones in China: one is the naming of experts or special committees organized by the state, the other is the naming of associations at all levels, and the third is social cognition. It doesn't matter who coined the name "Warring States Red". Importantly, it is inappropriate and unscientific to call this new variety of agate stone from Beipiao, Chaoyang City "Warring States Red". There are many kinds of strange stones in China, including modeling stones, colored stones, textured stones, mineral crystals, paleontological fossils, meteorites and so on. Agate belongs to the category of textured stone, which can be divided into multiple categories according to color, texture, grain, characteristics and appearance, and each category is divided into multiple varieties. Only according to the texture, it can be divided into silk-wrapped agate, descendant agate, aquatic agate, dendritic agate, moss agate, ribbon agate and so on. The thin line is called silk-wrapped agate, and the wide line is called ribbon agate. Silk-wrapped agate is also called red agate. The red agate in the Warring States belongs to the red agate.
Cultural Connotation of the Name of Warring States Red
Why is Beipiao Warring States Red positioned as a "gem" instead of a "gem" or a "jade"? Because Warring States Red has both the attributes and characteristics of gemstones and jade, simply calling it either one is not enough to cover the quality of Warring States Red. After repeated argumentation, it took more than two years to finally establish this problem. Calling Beipiao Warring States Red a "gem" is the most accurate positioning! Analysis of the gem value of Beipiao Warring States Red from the market perspective. Many players, merchants and collectors of Warring States Red increasingly recognize that gem value is the core value of Warring States Red. The positioning and title of "Warring States Ruby" is more accurate! In order to further objectively and fairly judge whether the Warring States Red has reached the gem level, this paper mainly compares it with the world-recognized gems such as jadeite, hetian jade, ruby, sapphire and diamond ring to see whether the fine Warring States Red has gem value. Hardness. Hardness is the most important index to test and measure gems. Without the corresponding hardness, it is impossible to call it a gem. Because jewelry is an accessory, it must be durable, practical and inherited. A good piece of jewelry can be handed down from generation to generation. Therefore, under the premise of reflecting the decorative beauty, jewelry should not be afraid of bumping in life. The four famous fossils of Shoushan, Bahrain, Qingtian and Changhua in Yin Shi are as beautiful in color, as smooth in texture and as precious as gems. However, due to its low hardness (about 3 degrees), it is not suitable for making jewelry. Since ancient times, they have entered the study as Four Treasures of the Study and are famous as famous stones. The hardness of Warring States Red is 6.5-7.0 degrees, which exceeds the hardness of Hetian jade and is almost the same as that of ruby, sapphire and jadeite. Therefore, as soon as the Warring States red jewelry inlay appeared in the market, it was immediately sought after and the price climbed all the way. It took less than two years for a bare face to appreciate from 30 million yuan to 20 thousand yuan and then to 654.38+million yuan. Hundreds of thousands of bracelets have been sold, and the price is almost equal to Hetian jade, which has a great momentum of catching up with Nanhong and Emerald with a history of thousands of years. The proposition of "Fighting for the Red Country" is magnificent, rich in connotation and concise.
Twice brilliant. Gorgeous is the life of a gem, and the core value of jewelry is gorgeous color and brilliance. Dazzling is the natural standard to measure the value of jewelry. No matter men or women, the purpose of wearing jewelry is a beautiful decoration, satisfying the love of beauty (even satisfying some people's mentality of showing off their wealth). The more gorgeous the color, the higher the value, and the brilliance becomes a concrete representation of the price of jewelry. To some extent, the price of wearing jewelry has become a symbol of status, status and even wealth. There is no doubt about the gorgeous color of Zhan Guo Hong. She is eye-catching, amazing and popular in the market with its gorgeous colors! It can be said that the biggest feature of Warring States Red is its beautiful color. Her mainstream colors, red and yellow, complement each other and blend harmoniously, which has great artistic tension and reached a very high artistic realm. When the Warring States Red presents a single color, the color charm also reaches the extreme. Its chicken blood red, pigeon blood red and ruby chicken blood red, pigeon blood red complement each other, regardless of the same.
Third degree refraction. Jewelry is the most vivid and essential description of jewelry for thousands of years. The refraction degree of diamond is to form refracted light by cutting the face manually, thus forming colorful light. The brilliant red and yellow explosion of the Warring States Red is dazzling, and relying on the superposition of its own silk roads, it forms a wonderful and dazzling movement, which is dreamlike, unpredictable and mysterious, making people feel relaxed and happy. When pure yellow silk flashes, gold overflows, showing the bright beauty of gems; Pure red and dazzling silk flows like waves when flashing, which has a unique aesthetic feeling. The wonder of dazzling silk in the Warring States and the luster refracted by diamonds have formed a completely different style of dazzling beauty, but they have the same effect. It's just that the Warring States Red is too short to be seen by more people, while the South African diamond ring has a history of thousands of years and its colorful luster has conquered the world. Four densities. Density determines the texture of a gem. High density, fine texture and bright luster. With low density, the gem texture appears loose and rough, and its luster is dim. Density and hardness determine the luster of a gem. The density of Warring States Red is greater than that of Hetian jade, and it is the same as that of jadeite, ruby, tourmaline and Nanhong. Therefore, the texture of Warring States Red is very bright, luxurious and delicate, with the quality beauty and visual impact of gemstones. In particular, there is an ice-patterned Warring States Red, which can be compared with the ice-patterned jadeite. The water head and saturation are good, and with her gorgeous colors, it looks noble.
Five glossiness. Gloss is the soul of top jewelry. There is no dazzling silk, and the luster reflected by the produced jewelry is soft and bright, bright but not thief, sparkling, elegant, breathtaking and jewel-like, which is no less than jade, ruby, sapphire, tourmaline and Nanhong. In particular, the jewelry made of ice seed Warring States Red exudes bright luster, which brings the bright beauty of the Warring States Ruby to the extreme, and is not inferior to the world's top jewelry, showing her unique bright brightness and unique personality charm. Six degrees moist. Moisteness is one of the most important standards to measure jade. Since ancient times, jade has never been talked about without embellishment. Jade has no value and is the life of jade. Most varieties of Zhan Guo Hong have the characteristics of jade coagulation, such as chicken fat and sheep fat, which are moist as baby skin. However, jadeite, diamond ring, ruby, sapphire, tourmaline and other gems do not have the characteristics of condensation. This is a major feature that distinguishes Warring States Red from other hard gems. The moist degree of Warring States Red is comparable to that of Hetian Jade, Shoushan Tianhuang and Balinshi Chicken Oil Yellow. Its delicate and moist texture, smooth and delicate, is like touching a baby's ass, which makes people fondle it. Concise and moist texture is the life that the Warring States will spread all over the world and spread through the ages!
7. Transparency. Hard stones are highly transparent, such as diamond rings, emeralds, rubies and sapphires. Jade is translucent, showing the characteristics of condensation, such as Hetian jade and Xiuyu jade. Warring States Red is a jade variety with high transparency and translucency, which constitutes the dual attribute characteristics of Warring States Red Jade and Gemstone, so it is positioned as a gem. Such as transparent glass, ice and war red with shiny silk, transparent and smart, gorgeous and gorgeous, showing the gem style. Translucent brilliant red and yellow Warring States red are concise, restrained, moist and expensive, and jade's moral character is fully displayed. Treasures with both gem and jade characteristics are extremely rare in the world, and the unique charm of Warring States Red comes from this. Eight degrees beauty. In a broad sense, colored gems is a colorful treasure, while in a narrow sense, several colors are gathered on a gem, which is called a colorful treasure. Due to the nature of human beings' love for color, the narrow sense of color treasures is becoming increasingly popular in the international scope. While modern people pursue individuality, fashion and classic aesthetic orientation, Warring States Red caters to people's personalized demand for gems, and its aesthetic degree shines in changes, showing another unique charm of color composition, which is more dreamy than a single-color gem, satisfying people's multiple aesthetic feelings and reflecting the wearer's different personalities from multiple levels.
By comparing the eight indexes of several famous gems at home and abroad, it can be seen that all kinds of gems in the Warring States Red Series have the same quality, which not only has the gorgeous and gorgeous attributes of diamond ring, emerald, ruby and sapphire, but also has the warm and delicate quality characteristics of the four famous jade in China represented by Hetian jade, and at the same time has the gorgeous aesthetic feeling of gorgeous treasures. Guozhanhong should be a unique and rare gem variety in the world. Her red and yellow colors represent the cultural symbols of the descendants of the Chinese nation and carry the national cultural connotation for thousands of years.
The word "Warring States Red" has only three words, which not only puts the name of a strange stone in a big historical background, but also embodies China's traditional culture and the spirit of the times. The Warring States Period (475-22 BC1) was an important period of turbulence and change in the history of China. Formed the warring States pattern of Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei. China carried out extensive political reforms, practiced "great unification" and "Lian Heng" in diplomacy, and finally established the first unified feudal dynasty in China, which promoted the development of social history.
Red, red is the color that China people like, pursue and yearn for, which means happiness and auspiciousness. As early as the Zhou Dynasty in 1 1 century BC, red was widely used in palace buildings. Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty claimed to be "the son of Chi Di", and red is red. After the Han Dynasty, the custom of advocating red was basically the same all over the country, which has been passed down and become the traditional culture of China. Now the meaning of red is broader and deeper, which means that the country is prosperous and the people live a happy life. Red represents the spirit of the times, which is aboveboard, patriotic, honest and pragmatic, determined to innovate, pursue truth and forge ahead.
Zhan's collection prospects In recent years, articles about Zhan have analyzed the market situation and development trend, and practice has proved that there is nothing wrong. Summary of many players playing with stones for many years; Playing with stones means playing with strength and culture. You can't play well without strength, and you can't play well without culture. So you should collect and enjoy the war red. It is only six or seven years since Beipiao Warring States Red entered the market, and the price has been rising all the way. Some of them are unacceptable, but this is a reality. The impact of the environment on the stone market has already appeared, but Zhan has not been affected, and the market price remains high. Mainly manifested in four aspects: First, Beipiao is bright red in the Warring States period, with rich colors, good quality and beautiful rhyme; No artificial beauty, fake, show, are natural; People can't put it down, everyone loves it and can't put it down. Erduo: More and more people agree with Zhan's statement that there are more and more buyers and processors, more and more merchants, and the collection team is gradually expanding. Three less: limited resources and scarce raw materials. The Manaoshan mining area is over half, and there are not many red and yellow substances produced in the strata above 10 meter. Individuals hoard a lot of good materials, but they don't sell them easily and wait for the opportunity. Four expensive: things are rare. Like other commodities, the price of Beipiao Zhanguohong is determined by market demand.
The market, like an invisible hand, is regulating and influencing the price of Warring States Red, which no one can change. The market where Beipiao accounts for the national red will become more and more prosperous, and the price will continue to climb. Wherever collectors go, there is an old saying: timing is everywhere, depending on how you grasp it. Chiyu, that is, Warring States Red, has been confused with agate in historical changes and actual circulation. After liberation, archaeology flourished, and many excavated tombs of the Warring States period showed red and yellow jade ritual vessels, which were unknown to the world, hence the name "Warring States Red".
The real distinction between war reds depends on historical facts, years, places of origin and cultural relics as textual research.
Application of Warring States Red: It originated in the early Shang Dynasty, originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty, flourished in the Warring States and Han Dynasties, was occasionally used in Liao and Jin Dynasties, and then fell silent. It has been used for more than 2000 years, and its historical origin is proved by examples unearthed all over the country.
Among them, the most favorable evidence of the application history of Beipiao material (Warring States Red) in the pre-Qin period is the excavation of the aristocratic cemetery of Zhongshan State in Pingshan County, Hebei Province in 1979. During this period, more than 300 beads and tubes were unearthed as ornaments (highly similar to the present Northern Ticket Warring States Red), while the family of Sun Yat-sen State in the pre-Qin Dynasty was Bai Di, and the agate ring unearthed from Dongdazhangzi Warring States Tomb in Jianchang, Liaoning Province was also highly similar to the present Northern Warring States Red. The above two cases were presented by the official rigorous scientific research and excavation, but the products of Beipiao Warring States red beads, tubes, rings and swords, which were unearthed sporadically by the people, especially in Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, western Liaoning and eastern Mongolia, were even much higher than geometric multiples and public collections. Back in Beigou, Beipiao Zhucunying, there is a place called "Wangbakeng" by local people. Hundreds of tons of ancient slag are still piled up around (scraps of Beipiao Warring States Red with core materials removed), and the remains of old materials from the pre-Qin period (small core materials with heavy patina) are still unearthed from Zhucunying Tushan from time to time. Various kinds of red agate (Beipiao Warring States Red) products collected by the people from the pre-Qin to Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, combined with Zhuying ancient mine pit and old material cores unearthed from time to time, we roughly sort out a historical application vein of red agate (Beipiao Warring States Red): Xiajiadian culture was abused by the lower level (Shang Dynasty) ~ sporadic appearance in the Western Zhou Dynasty ~ prosperity in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period ~ decline in Liao and Jin Dynasties ~ western Liaoning.
[The high-end collection of Warring States Red focuses on four dimensions] With the advent of Warring States Red in the sixth year, people's knowledge and understanding of Warring States Red has been continuously strengthened. From strangeness to understanding, every collector has his own experience. Collecting is not something that can be done at the press of a button. You always have to study by yourself, communicate with others and constantly improve yourself. I believe everyone's Taobao process is a rare experience. Everyone has their own ideas and experiences when choosing a collection. It is better to share with others than to envy them. First of all, the color should be bright and red, which consists of the words Warring States and Red. Here, the scarlet letter cannot be simply understood as red. This scarlet letter represents the color of Warring States Red. The brighter and richer the color, the more collectible it is. Among all varieties of Warring States Red, bright color is an important criterion for positioning a fine product. There is a folk saying that describes a beautiful woman, which is called "one white covers all the ugliness". Applying it to the Warring States Red is to cover all the flaws. The brightly colored Warring States Red is very scarce, and the raw materials that can make chicken oil yellow, lemon yellow and bright red blood are very scarce. Therefore, whether it is red, yellow, blue and green, the more gorgeous and precious it is, the higher the collection value is. In addition, the Warring States Red also has black and white, and the reason is the same. The thicker the white, the rarer it is, and the darker the black, the rarer it is. Second, the picture must be absolutely red, which is formed by the mixing of lava and surrounding materials during volcanic eruption. During the whole journey, various natural factors, such as the extrusion and impact of external forces, the drip irrigation of molten slurry itself, the evaporation and cooling of water in the air, have formed different pictures of the ever-changing Warring States Red. This naturally formed pattern has different 369 and so on. Among them, the picture is turbid, the level is single, and the lines are chaotic. Clean, neat, not messy, well-defined is the top grade. If vivid pictographic ornamental patterns are naturally formed, it is a rare collection. Generally speaking, the red map of the Warring States is divided into two parts: silk and no silk. The part with silk is divided into monochrome silk, multicolor silk, dense silk and flash silk. The most admired silk is the gorgeous red and yellow flash silk. Where there is no silk, the picture is often like a stream splashed with ink, with mountains and ever-changing leopard prints, which is really difficult to summarize. Third, the texture should be like jade, and it cannot be separated from water. The stone-like Warring States Red will feel very dry and lack spirituality. High-quality Warring States Red is a beautiful jade, whether pure red or pure yellow, or red Huang Xiangsheng's. It is moist and greasy like jade, comfortable to the touch and beautiful in appearance. Fourth, the workmanship should be fine.
Pure glue-free, crack-free and flawless are no longer the mainstream guiding ideology of collecting Warring States Red, and the more important measure is workmanship. Whether it is a gem or a treasure jade, excellent workmanship is one of her minimum standards. To collect all kinds of stationery, we should choose the ones with excellent workmanship and Excellence, and be meticulous about the correctness and integrity of the shape of the instrument. Carvers, exquisite collections, meticulous, carved pictures, whether flat or three-dimensional, first of all, if the proportion is coordinated, it should feel lifelike and almost confusing. Jewelry collection depends on the cutting and polishing of rubies during the Warring States period. Crystal clear is an essential standard, and the mosaic design should be avant-garde and elegant, so as to ensure that it will not be outdated and more collectible. In short, exquisite craftsmanship is the standard. I believe that if we pay attention to these four scales, it will be helpful to choose the Warring States Red.