Fang Wei
Agate was called "Chiyu" and "Qiong" before the Han Dynasty, and its name first came from Lotus Classic (The Legend of Kindness in Tang Dynasty).
Agate is beautiful, crystal clear, strong and bright, and is one of the jade species deeply loved by our people.
Agate, a kind of siliceous jade, can be used as a gem with bright color and high quality, and has been listed as one of the "Seven Treasures" since ancient times.
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First of all, the tribute of the former West
Xinjiang is known as the "hometown of gems", and agate has a long history of development. As early as the Neolithic Age, the ancestors of primitive tribes at the foot of Kunlun Mountain and Turpan had already released Hetian jade and agate.
When beautiful stones are carved into decorations. The predecessor of the "Silk Road" originated from the ancient jade road in the Qijia culture period, which ran through the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the traffic volume gradually increased. Most of the goods are "emperors who use all the goods"
Wang Yu-hetian jade. After the Han Dynasty, the "Silk Road" flourished with the Central Plains, and countries in the western regions presented agates and utensils as real estate treasures to the imperial court.
According to Yuan Gui, the official residence of the Tang Dynasty, "In the third year of Tianbao (A.D. 744), countries in the western regions-Dashi Kingdom, Guo Kang, Tuhuoluo Kingdom and Tubo Stone Kingdom-paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty for horses and treasures".
"New Tang Book" "In the 28th year of Kaiyuan (AD 740), the state of Kang presented agate to the Tang Dynasty". The Book of the Tang Dynasty records that the kingdom of Toksolo paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty for agate, and at the same time paid tribute to agate as a gem.
Since then, the annual tribute has continued, and agate has also spread to the West and Central Asia.
Second, the treasure left behind.
Xinjiang has a vast territory, Gobi is widely distributed, and agate has many producing areas and all kinds. Altay, Karamay and Changji in northern Xinjiang; Agate is produced in Hami, Shanshan and Turpan in eastern Xinjiang.
The local ancestors chose red agate, carved it into utensils and traded it for many years. After that, it gradually declined in the development and prosperity of Hetian jade, which is moist, shiny, meticulous and tenacious.
Origin: Agate in Gobi of Xinjiang, concentrated in the narrow volcanic areas of Hami and Turpan on the north and south wings of East Tianshan Mountain, such as Sanhu Gobi (Tangsan Lake, Niuquan Lake,
Naomao Lake) and Shaer Lake Gobi. Because of its unique qualities such as solid crystal, fresh and bright, exquisite and petite, rare and precious, it is unique among many Gobi stones and is known as the "desert essence"
"Spirit" and "Gobi Treasure" are cherished by collectors at home and abroad.
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Crystal agate wrapped in silk agate lake Shaer white agate flash agate.
Among them, the agate produced in Niuquan Lake area is of the best quality, colorful and transparent as water, red as Danxia, yellow as steamed pear, green as emerald, black as lacquer ink ... colorful and smooth.
Familiar with, deeply loved by stone friends. The white agate produced in Lake Shaer is milky white and bright, and its shape and posture change strangely. Some are as warm and delicate as suet white jade, covered with golden polished skin and hidden in the net.
A bloodshot pulse; Some are pure and clean, full of holes, which are unique treasures in agate stones.
Variety: The beauty of agate stone in Xinjiang lies in nature, but it is rare. Longer than rhyme, better than natural body with different meanings. Compared with Inner Mongolia Gobi agate, it is not so moist and bright.
But there are many varieties, strange patterns, elegant colors and charming shapes. The main varieties are: agate, flash agate, bamboo agate, wood agate, water bile agate and crystal agate.
Nau, jasper agate, stone agate, etc. Different varieties show different moral styles.
Silk-wrapped agate is known as the "stone of happiness" in the world jewelry industry-the stone of birthday in August. Those touching and beautiful filaments, like tenderness, symbolize love and happiness. Silk-wrapped agate is a Xinjiang horse.
Common varieties of zero stone, with white, yellow and red backgrounds, with great shape change, high transparency, sharp luster, different widths, parallel and soft lines, or as wide as a belt, or
As fine as silk, it often forms fantastic patterns on a rich background color, which is very popular.
Flash agate is a precious variety of silk-wrapped agate, which is rare in China and has a special optical effect-flash. When turning a smooth surface, you can see some gradual changes between fine textures.
Dark light and shadow, when wide and narrow, when thick and when light, schlieren flashing, amazing. The formation of flash is caused by the light refraction of special agate stripes. The narrower the ribbon, the clearer the light and shadow.
The closer the color of the ribbon is, the more obvious the light and shadow are. Flash agate is petite, common in gray, yellow and white, beautiful in shape and pattern, and rare in bright color.
Bamboo leaf agate and imitation wood agate refer to the texture and shape like bamboo leaves or wooden stalks, and the color tone is most common with yellow lines on white background. The best is red, yellow, green and white.
Out or mottled, elegant, clear and noble; Or colorful, colorful and beautiful. Bamboo agate is generally low in transparency and stone maturity, but it is large in size and low in yield.
Tall man.
Crystal agate, also known as sand core agate, is the inner layer of agate, which has concentric circles and contains timely or crystal clusters-sand core, which is divided into solid and hollow. Most of them are mud.
Round, ornamental value is not high; But it is the remnant of the wind, with various shapes and postures. The skin with changeable colors and crystal clear are transmitting transcendental treasures. Hollow integrity, sometimes crystal.
It's strange to fall and rustle. Shiyou calls it the ringing stone agate.
Water bile agate, a rare and rare species, has an ordinary appearance, mostly in the shape of milky white translucent inclined steamed bread, and liquid flow in the cavity can be seen when it rotates against the sun. Water bile agate has a strange origin,
In the later stage of volcanic eruption, magma rich in silicon dioxide was formed by rapid condensation with hydrothermal solution in the air, but it was extremely difficult to preserve in Gobi, and most of it was weathered and cracked, and water was lost. Currently, China
Water bile agate is mostly from Brazil, and there are many counterfeiters of water needles, so buyers need to distinguish the authenticity.
Jasper agate is the life form of jasper and agate. Jasper has low transparency, but bright color. Red, yellow, white and green jasper blends with agate of various colors, and the color patterns are rich and colorful.
Elegant. Because jasper is hard and dense, the hardness is as high as seven, and the round and smooth shape is rare.
Texture: The agate stone in Xinjiang is rich in color rhyme and peculiar in decoration, showing a fresh and beautiful stone rhyme style on the whole. The main colors of white and light yellow are intertwined with various textures.
Silk pattern, circle eye pattern, ribbon pattern, wood grain, water wave pattern, moire pattern, plum pattern, reed pipe pattern.
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The winding pattern is like a hair, the pattern of parallel lines, which is collected or put away, sometimes gathered and sometimes scattered, and the changeable cloth is wrapped.
Around the stone body.
Rings with slightly convex eye lines and points with slightly convex center, like eyes, are scattered among stones.
Ribbon stripes are different in width and depth, and the color veins are like fluttering ribbons, and the color rhyme is hazy in mosaic stones.
Venous instability.
Imitation wood grain texture is interlaced, like piled dry wood, evenly distributed, without obvious protrusions.
get up
The pattern of water waves is milky white, supple, and bulges with pale yellow blisters, which are like lake waves rushing to the shore and splashing.
The moire is black and white, with floc color blocks, floating like clouds and full of movement.
The yellow stems have plum blossom patterns, and the red branches are dotted with Bai Mei and Mo Yun's elegance, vividness and simplicity.
Jay.
Reed lines vary in length, and pale yellow reed branches dissolve in the edge, like stones frozen in nectar and jade.
On the face.
Third, the magical and charming agate beach.
"Tianshan Mountain is rich in gold and jade", the little-known Yiwu Agate Beach in Hami is located at the northern foot of East Tianshan Mountain, adjacent to Mongolia.
Adjacent to each other, belonging to the border closed area. The journey from Hami is about 260 kilometers. The scenery along the way is strange and the climate is very different.
Not the same, over the snowy peaks of Tianshan Mountain, across the grassland, listening to the roar of sand mountains, watching the vicissitudes of Populus euphratica and feeling the vastness of the desert Gobi.
Amazing, it's really "four seasons in one day, ten miles in different days".
Agate beach, with a total area of about 40 square kilometers, is a reddish-brown volcanic Gobi, with undulating mountains and immature feathers.
Lake-Niuquan Lake-Tangsan Lake Gobi is embroidered by dozens of spectacular agate lake in the east-west direction, which is hundreds of meters long.
Dozens of meters wide. Agate is scattered all over the sand, with big bowls and eggs.
Thumb is big, white, yellow, red, crystal clear, round and complete, grotesque and different.
The variety of agate on the beach is also different, which makes people laugh ... In the afterglow of the sunset, Huang Cancan's.
Jingjing one after another, as if entering the dream world of exotic treasures.
"Three Lakes" Gobi is windy all the year round, with large temperature difference between day and night and scarce rainfall. The highest temperature in summer is as high as 48 degrees.
It belongs to a typical temperate continental climate. Volcanic hydrothermal solution originally produced in the pores of andesite and basalt in lower Carboniferous.
A-type primary agate, under the strong physical weathering in a long historical period, the soft parent rock has been eroded.
Nau stands out from the crowd, in situ slope. In fact, the agate just picked up from the beach is not bright, and its surface is light gray.
In the muddy desert varnish, local stone farmers used dilute hydrochloric acid to remove it slightly before selling, showing beautiful color.
Li's protolith.
It is a matter of recent years to really concentrate on developing the "three lakes" agate beach. Local stone appreciation market after 2000
Prosperous, there is a great demand for all kinds of stones, and agate is exquisite and beautiful. At that time, the Gobi agate was everywhere.
However, despite its remote location and inconvenient transportation, stone farmers and friends still flock to it because it is convenient to pick it up.
The land was pulled out, most of it was sold out when it arrived in Hami, and some of it was sent directly to Inner Mongolia and other places, which is said to be very good.
Let's go For a time, the troops at the border post guarded the customs for strict investigation and blocked patrols, but the limited resources soon succeeded. The car-printed sidewalks criss-crossing the soft Gobi silently tell the past.
The memory of. Fortunately, God has eyes. Every spring, several strong winds constantly dig out the stones in the sand, and often pop up several exciting clips to encourage the stone farmers.
Firm and lasting confidence. Late-maturing cantaloupes in Naomaohu area are of first-class quality, and melon farmers who abandoned farming and quarrying a few years ago cultivated them one after another. Today, only about a dozen families are quarrying stones and driving on the beach.
Riding a "flying donkey" (motorcycle) is still wandering on the deserted road.