The earth is so vast in people's field of vision, perhaps because a person can't walk every inch of the earth even if he walks day and night in his life. In these lands, there are billions of people of different races and borders. And how many anecdotes are hidden in these races and national boundaries? This is just the one I know. This should be the most valuable river in the world, and it may be sneered at by everyone. I believe many people think that this river is used for irrigation at most. How can its value be compared with gold?
But the river described to you today may not be valuable, but the things along the river and even under the river bed are more precious than gold and are still loved by China people. This is the Lu Wu River in northern Myanmar. As we all know, Myanmar is a big country producing jade, and this area is one of the mining areas with the most concentrated jadeite in Myanmar. Jade, as a kind of jade, is generally regarded as flawless in China. And the ancients in China thought? Jade, the heavy weapon of the country? As early as in ancient times, jade had a high position in national culture, so the national seals after Qin Dynasty were all made of jade, and most of the objects buried in ancient times were jade, but they were mostly used for the rich and powerful.
Jade is also one of the main ritual vessels for maintaining social order in ancient China, and more scholars prefer to describe its integrity by its texture characteristics, such as? Life is worse than death, the former gentleman is better than jade, gentle and courteous. Thus, in the eyes of China people, jade is not only a spiritual culture, but also a material embodiment, so gold is valuable, while jade is priceless. As one of the largest jadeite mining areas in Myanmar, the Wuluhe mining area in Myanmar provides about 95% jadeite to the world every year, so it is also famous in all jadeite mining areas in the world.
In today's era when information travels at the speed of light, millions of people can know what resources a place has within 1 second, and the Ulu River mining area in Myanmar is no exception. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people want to go to the mining area for treasure hunting, but not all of them can go to Myanmar. Various domestic forces are intertwined, and this mining area is heavily guarded by a local army, and it is found that they have to pay the price of blood. Even so, but? People die for money, birds die for food? Every year, people take risks for money, but in order to avoid stealing jadeite ore, the local army in Kachin State still keeps a 24-hour gap guard. For gold diggers, it is necessary to legally buy ore according to local laws and regulations to avoid bloodshed caused by stealing stones.
In fact, the whole Lu Wu River was the territory of China before the late Qing Dynasty, but after passing through Eight-Nation Alliance, this territory became a British colony and was eventually incorporated into the territory of British Burma. Until Myanmar became independent, all the territories occupied by the British were their own. The exploitation of the Lu Wu River began in the 1940s. At that time, the mining area was still very free, and there was no military guard, which attracted people from different races and borders to come to this mining area to mine jadeite raw stone for the same dream? Get rich overnight? At that time, there was no advanced large-scale mining machinery. Generally, there may be only a few grams of jade in hundreds of thousands of kilograms of original stone, or even there is nothing in some tens of thousands of kilograms of original stone, which leads to new ones. Rules of the game? , called gambling jade.
And many jade merchants seized this business opportunity. Many gamblers buy jadeite raw stone crazily. Many people lost money because of the illusion of getting rich overnight. Few people open jade in the original stone, but few gamblers walk out of the gambling stone circle. Many gamblers have intensified their efforts and eventually died to avoid being chased by creditors. Today, the Lu Wu River is still very prosperous, and miners, gamblers, speculators and local troops from all over the world gather here, but such abnormal prosperity is actually a blasphemy to the local ecology and nature. It seems that this treasure should not be discovered by greedy humans.