Pearl is known as the "Queen of Gems" because of its gorgeous "bling" and elegant and pure character.
Be favored by people.
Pearl is really like a lady with many manners. With its noble status, gorgeous appearance, elegant manners and pure personality, it quietly satisfies the human love for beauty.
Pearl is also listed as the birthstone in June by the international gem circle, and it is also a gift for the 30th anniversary of 13, symbolizing health, purity, wealth, happiness and longevity.
Pearl is not a natural gem, it is produced in some shellfish (mussels). When some foreign matter enters the shellfish and cannot be eliminated in time, its cell membrane will secrete nacre liquid to wrap the foreign matter layer by layer, and it will become pearls over time.
Because the pearl layer of each package is extremely thin, a pearl will be made up of thousands of pearl packages, which will take 3-6 years to form.
Pearls produced by shellfish in seawater are called seawater pearls, mainly produced in white butterflies and black butterflies, while pearls produced by mussels in fresh water are called freshwater pearls, mainly produced in Hyriopsis cumingii. It should be noted that not all shellfish (mussels) can produce pearls.
According to the research of geologists, during the Triassic period 200 million years ago, shellfish began to multiply in large numbers.
With shellfish, it is possible to breed pearls.
Pearl is also one of the earliest jewels used by human beings.
Genesis, the opening of the Bible, records that the Vicente River flowing from the Garden of Eden "has pearls and agates there".
As for the time and place when humans first discovered and used pearls, we have no way to verify them.
What we can know is that from the moment it was discovered, human beings have been obsessed with its natural beauty, not only as a godsend, but also as a symbol of wealth and luxury.
Preference for pearls is the unanimous choice of people of different skin colors in the world.
Pearl-picking history of different races in the world is as long as their culture.
Tracing back, the history of natural pearl picking has reached at least thousands of years.
According to records, the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, the southern coast of India, the Manar Bay in the west of Sri Lanka, the Bay of Bengal, the coast of Egypt (Red Sea), and especially the Persian Gulf (including the coasts of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) were once world-famous natural pearl producing areas.
Pearl mining in the Persian Gulf and other places has a history of at least 4,000 years.
The Bible Genesis records that the Bison River flowing from the Garden of Eden is full of "pearls and agates".
Egyptians, Persians and Indians are all interested in pearls.
The ancient Romans also had a soft spot for pearls, and they often bought pearls from the Persian Gulf through various channels.
Because pearls are rare and expensive, wearing pearls became a symbol of the status of dignitaries in ancient Rome.
As early as hundreds of BC, the nobles in ancient Egypt were popular with pearl decoration, and the Egyptian queens were all proud of owning pearls.
Indians love pearls thousands of years ago.
The shallow waters of the Indian Ocean in southern India are the origin of high-quality pearls. Indians knew the luxury of pearls as early as 4000 years ago, and records about pearls abound in Buddhist classics and ancient Indian cultural classics.
According to Hokkekyo and Amitabha Sutra in ancient India, pearls are one of the "seven treasures of Buddhism".
Today, although most ancient Indian pearls are hard to find, we can still find their past glory from some traces left behind.
In the Indian city of Baroda, there is still a pearl ribbon inlaid with 100 rows of pearls, which can be said to be priceless.
Western Europeans like pearls after AD.
It is said that a Spanish adventurer, after returning from india tourism, wrote with emotion: "You can find gems in every hut, and temples are decorated with pearls.
""there are so many pearls, even if there are 900 people and 300 horses, it is impossible to take them all.
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/kloc-After 0/5th century, Western Europe entered the Pearl Age.
After 1530, many European countries began to legislate for pearls, stipulating that people must wear pearls according to their social status and identity.
Therefore, pearls, like other precious stones, have become a symbol for aristocratic men and women to show off their wealth and status.