The Rosestone originated in the West and has its literary foundation. Article 30 of the History of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, mentioned that the local area is rich in precious stones, including "pearl, night pearl, true white pearl, tiger pearl, coral, fairy, rose, realgar, blue and five-color jade". There is also an article "Kingdom of Persia" in the Biography of Liang Shu and Zhu Yi, which records that the local "coral tree born in Yu Xian Pond is one or two feet long, and there are also amber, horse brain, pearls and roses", which is not precious in China. This record is called "History of the South" Volume 79 "Yi Yi Zhuan". Although the characters are different, roses (Rose [left "king" and right "back"] and Rose Zan) obviously refer to a kind of ore produced in Daqin and Persia. Song Yun, an envoy of the Northern Wei Dynasty to dozens of western countries, once passed through the country of Lada. He saw Princess Rada "wearing a gorgeous dress, eight feet long and three feet down, which made people hold. "The head has a corner and is three feet long, decorated with five-color rose beads" (Volume 5 of Luoyang Galand), which shows that the rose is also a precious gem in the local area. In the second year of Peace in the Northern Wei Dynasty (46 1), in order to celebrate the great cause of national territorial expansion, Wen Chengdi specially ordered a company to make twelve giant "golden plates" with complicated and exquisite techniques. "Carve it with silver, match the cymbals with roses", the inscription reads, "Kyushu Island is a tribute, and guests in special areas make their own utensils. The wrong utensils are precious and cymbals are precious.
From this, let's look at a paragraph in Volume I of Xijing Miscellanies compiled by Ge Hong (284-364) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Le Garden has its own rose tree, and there are many alfalfa under it". The "rose tree" here is often used to prove that roses were planted in the Han Dynasty, but as an orphan, the roses here are not necessarily plants, but more likely to be gems, "golden trees" and "golden trees". According to Taiping Guangji (Volume 236) and Miscellanies of Xijing, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a heavenly horse, "Rose stones are often used as saddles, and gold and silver are used as ornaments? ? Stone, covered with green brocade ",rose is the name of the precious stone in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it is also clearly visible.
The seven treasures of Buddhism are important gems to decorate Buddhist offerings, and also important materials for architectural decoration in Buddhism. The walls of the palace in Nirvana Sutra are made of four treasures of gold, silver, glass and pears, and the ground is full of roses. The annotation "Rose" in the Buddhist scriptures of Tang Dynasty says that "the beauty of stone is called rose, and the roundness is called rose", and the pronunciation of "Rose" should be "Hu Kuifan", which is the same as "Hui". Ou Yangxun (557-64 1) in the early Tang Dynasty introduced Liu Xiaoyi's poem "Byodoji Ming" in Volume 77 of Collection of Arts, which is as beautiful as the Buddhist Temple in Heaven, showing the effect of "bright fire and bright candle". This expression is often used by scholars in the early Tang Dynasty in the article Lingao Temple Monument Arrangement (full volume 396). "Jade is used for writing and roses are used for algae." It is very common to build Buddhist temples with seven treasures in the medieval concept, and the so-called "glazed tiles of the Crystal Palace" (Ouyang Jiong's Song of the King of Murals in Yingtian Temple) is a typical example of this concept. This interest in building decorative buildings with gold, silver and precious stones originated from the west and has its practical basis. The palaces of the Great Qin State are mostly made of refined Shui Liu Li, and its main hall is made of rustling as the pillar, gold as the ground and ivory as the door leaf (Book of Old Tang Dynasty, volume 198), which deeply influenced the Tang Dynasty. -754), such as "crystal curtain foil mica fan, glazed window tortoise shell bed" and other palace furnishings, have quite realistic elements behind literary rhetoric.
From the Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, the name "rose" obviously refers to a kind of gem produced in the western world, which is expensive and rare whether it is used in court or Buddhist temple. Yan Shigu's note reflects that in the early Tang Dynasty, people thought that roses were fire and pearls, so the local gems listed in Volume 83 of Sui Shu's Biography of Persia were "fire and gas" juxtaposed with real pearls, beautiful flowers, animal spirits, corals, glazed pottery, yards, watery and rustling. Princess Anle (? -7 10) once spent 30,000 yuan to build a treasure incense burner with pearls, agates, coloured glaze, amber, glass, coral, car paint, Wan Yan and other precious stones (Volume III of the Official History). In the middle Tang dynasty, there were fewer and fewer examples of using roses as stone names. Su E, a scholar in the late Tang Dynasty (a scholar around 886), mentioned in Du Yang Miscellanies that there was an "tortoise shell curtain fire bed" in the court of the late Tang Dynasty, and precious stones such as water, fire, glass and tortoise shell were used to make palace rooms.