The most scientific value is a transparent amber, which contains natural resins of plants and animals thousands of years ago.
The most economic value is a kind of red beeswax hidden in the Baltic Sea. Its color is purplish red, very deep, also called blood amber.
But in ancient China, I didn't know that these two things actually came from the same source, but there was a common feature all over the world. Amber or beeswax was regarded as the tears of a fairy figure or animal. This also proves that ancient people can distinguish beeswax, amber and mineral gems. This is an organic gem.
So what did China say in ancient times? Amber is the tiger's tears, or its soul. Li Shizhen said it was "jade" in Compendium of Materia Medica, but it also clearly expressed that the ancients knew it was not jade. But ancient people still had a correct understanding of amber. Because the Tang Dynasty poet Wei explained amber in this way, saying that he is the soul and liquid of pine trees, and those mosquitoes still fall in it and can still be seen for thousands of years.
Amber is a resin fossil of pine trees, so it will give off a unique fragrance when rubbed. Amber has religious significance and calms the nerves.
However, because beeswax is opaque and moist, giving people more impressions and aesthetic feeling in color, there is a misunderstanding in ancient China that it is amber for thousands of years and beeswax for thousands of years. It seems that amber will take many years to become beeswax.
Amber and beeswax are priceless because of its non-renewable nature and its special shape and color.
In China, amber is said to have the tears and soul of a tiger. In the west, legends about amber and beeswax are also related to tears.
For example, in Lithuania, amber is said to be the tear of a mermaid. When her lover was killed at sea because he fell in love with her, the girl left red tears, which were amber.
In Greek legend, amber is also a tear of love. A goddess cried all day because her handsome lover died, and finally became crystal amber.
So when we know these beautiful legends, we actually admire the ancient people's ability to interpret myths. It is precisely because amber beeswax is an organic gem, not a mineral gem, that it gives people more spirituality and sexiness, which is the legend so close to the human soul.
However, no matter from the scientific value or economic value, ordinary people can't own amber and beeswax. But it doesn't prevent us from taking a look and getting to know each other.