Rain flower stone is a wonderful flower among the ornamental stones in the world, with beautiful colors and patterns for viewing. She is mainly produced in Liuhe, Nanjing, with beautiful scenery along the river. Rain flower stone is named "flower", which is beautiful and charming.
[Edit this paragraph] History and legends
From gestation to formation, yuhua stone has gone through three complicated and long stages: primary formation, secondary handling and gravel layer deposition, and it can also be said that it has become romantic after vicissitudes. Rain flower stone, natural agate, mainly produced in Liuhe District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, is the largest producer of rain flower stone in China. The produced rain flower is beautiful in stone quality, shape, grain, color, image and artistic conception, and is known as "a godsend national treasure, a must for China". Beautiful rain flower stones have been appreciated and collected by people for thousands of years. In recent years, the ancient style has revived, and the rain flower stone has been favored by people at home and abroad, becoming a precious gift for friends and relatives and appreciating the collection.
Rain flower stone is a unique and beautiful stone in China. Among the strange stones, he can be called the leader of the queen in the stone. Speaking of rain flower stones, the first thing to take the lead is a myth about rain flower stones: it is said that there is a rain flower view on the ancient rain flower terrace, and there is a real person in it. Yuhua is dignified and wise, hidden, and rarely preaches after years of meditation, as if it were a mysterious ancient book. One day, Yuhua real person opened the altar to give lectures. The charm of personality and wisdom shocked many people and even touched the gods. In joy, the gods ordered a colorful rain. Colorful rain falls side by side, like a long scroll of Mi Fei landscape in the Palace Museum. Lingling rain knocked on the Yuhuatai, and the grains turned into agate-like rain stones.
[Edit this paragraph] Shi Yuhua's name.
Yuhuatai was called "Jubaoshan" and "Agate Mountain" in ancient times because of its colorful stones.
After the Southern Liang Dynasty, there was a myth that "Master Guang Yun gave lectures in Liang Wudi, which touched the sky and smallpox fell one after another". During the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Lv Xiang, assistant minister of the official department, named the place where Master Guang Yun gave lectures as "Yuhuatai" according to the legend of Yuhua.
Rain flower stones are produced in the suburbs of Nanjing and in Liuhe, Yizheng (Zhou Zhen), Jiangning and Jiangpu on both sides of the Yangtze River. Wan Du, a poet in the Song Dynasty, called yuhua stone "agate stone" and "snail stone" in "Yunlin Stone Spectrum".
Ming Dynasty's "Unified Nanjing" said: "Yuhuatai Stone, Jubaoshan Out".
The name Yuhuashi really stood out in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Xu Rong wrote a poem with seven rhythms on the topic of rain flower stones. Zhang Dai said in the article "The Stone of Rain Flower": "My father collected 13 pieces of rain flower stones from Yu Zu, Yu, and Yu generations ...".
The names of stones are changing everywhere. From "Agate Mountain" to "Yuhuatai", from "Agate Stone" to "Yuhuatai Stone" and then to "Yuhua Stone", from a beautiful Buddhist legend to the established name of Yuhua Stone, the nicknames of Kistler Stone, Five-color Stone, Liuhe Stone, Lingyan Stone, Jiangshizi Stone, Luozishi, etc. They are all fixed as rain flower stones, and their names are spread all over the country.
[Edit this paragraph] Appreciation and collection
Rain flower stone is a flower-shaped stone, a stony flower. The aura of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and the elegance of everything can be divided into figures, animals, landscapes, flowers, trees, words, abstract stones and so on. According to the degree of "six beauties", it can be divided into peerless stones, precious stones, fine products and fine products. Looking at it is refreshing and pleasing to the eye. Throughout the ages, it has always been loved by people. Celebrities and literati of all ages loved stones very much. Premier Zhou Enlai once collected rain flower stones, and Nanjing Meiyuan New Village still displays the rain flower stones collected by Premier Zhou Enlai. Wu1991kloc-0, former vice premier of the State Council, saw the rain flower stones when he came to Jiangsu. Mr. Mei Lanfang, a master of Beijing Opera, also likes rain flower stones very much. At the Seoul Olympic Games, South Korean athletes used it as a symbol of China's eternal existence in Seoul. Nowadays, more and more people in China and abroad like and collect rain flower stones. Become a high-grade gift for guests, relatives and friends, and the rain flower stone has unlimited scenery. Rain flower stone has established its unique position and value in the ornamental stone with its crystal-clear texture beauty, graceful modeling beauty of Zhong Ling, magnificent and bright colors, unpredictable texture beauty, incredible image beauty and natural artistic conception beauty, and is known as "God-given national treasure" and "queen in stone"!
In view of the beauty of the rain flower stone, 1993, the people of China and the Ministry of Culture filmed a special documentary "Rain Flower Stone", which was translated into 10 foreign languages in April of 194, and used for the foreign cultural propaganda of China embassies abroad, and was broadcast by relevant overseas TV stations, which once again set off the "Rain Flower Stone" craze.
Rainflower stones are difficult to produce and collect. It is not only the combination of financial resources, eyesight, perseverance and fate, but also the collection process itself, which is also a comprehensive test for the stone collectors. How deep the man is, how deep the stone is; Stone reflects character, and character determines stone. Only the unity of man and stone is the highest realm of stone-hiding people! As far as the hardships of collection are concerned, I'm afraid only the stone collectors can understand them. Rainflower stones are easy to get, but it's hard to get treasures, and it's even harder to get fine and unique products! "There are four or two stones in a ton of yellow sand, and there is no treasure in a hundred tons of stones", which can be seen.
Nanjing Yuhuatai is famous all over the world. Most people think that yuhua stone is produced in Yuhuatai, but it is not. I have been out of Shi Yuhua before Yuhuatai; The main producing areas of yuhua stone are Liuhe and Yizheng (originally belonging to Liuhe area, now under Yangzhou) which are adjacent to Nanjing, and the quality is particularly good in Liuhe's crossbeam, Donggou and Babai. Shi Yuhua Village in Nanjing is the first place to embody the main production and processing areas in Shi Yuhua, Nanjing in the form of administrative village. Nanjing, because of its unique historical origin and rich stone culture, is still the largest and most important distribution center and activity center of yuhua stone in China and even in the world. The well-known yuhuashi trading centers are: Qingliangshan Stone Market, Yuhuatai Yuhua Stone Museum, Confucius Temple Cultural Market and Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Cultural Market.
Nanjing, as the hometown of rain flower stones, is loved and collected by more and more people. Natural rain flower stones are different from artificial handicrafts. Due to the limited resources and its natural charm, their collection potential and investment value are also increasing rapidly. May the "stone queen" rain flower stones become more and more colorful.
[Edit this paragraph] Chemical composition
Shi Yuhua is mainly composed of silicon dioxide, and the red components are iron ions and ferrous ions. Rain flower stones are pebbles made of agate, opal, chalcedony, timely, etc., which are mostly found in the sediments of river beds and river terraces, among which the most famous is the rain flower stones produced in Yuhuatai, Nanjing. Rain flower stones are divided into fine stones and coarse stones. The fine products are mainly agate, with delicate stone, bright color, high roundness, crystal clear and lovely. Coarse stones are coarse in texture, mainly seasonal or metamorphic rocks, with low value. Beautiful rain flower stones can often present various landscapes, figures, birds and animals, trees and other scenes, which makes people daydream and think deeply and is very beautiful.
Because there are many kinds of rain flower stones, their genesis and chemical composition are extremely complicated. Take agate gravel as an example, it comes from native agate. It is generally believed that primary agate is formed by residual hydrothermal solution of magma. This hydrothermal solution is filled in the gaps of volcanic rocks, such as basalt and rhyolite. Because of the different shapes of the gaps, agate balls or agate veins are formed. After the action of natural forces, the original agate fell off, and then was hit by mountain torrents, carried by running water and ground into pebbles. This is what we see in the gravel layer.
Rain flower stones are famous for their peculiar patterns and colorful natural beauty. Its ring pattern is surrounded by silica gel around cracks and holes in volcanic rocks, starting from the inner wall and deposited layer by layer from the outside to the inside. During its growth, periodic diffusion of colored ions and compounds often occurs. The main chemical composition of primary agate is silicon dioxide, followed by a small amount of iron oxide and a small amount of elements and compounds such as manganese, copper, aluminum and magnesium. They have different pigments, such as latosolic red iron, blue copper, purple manganese, yellow colloidal chalcedony, emerald green minerals and so on. Due to the different types and contents of these pigment ions dissolved in silica hydrothermal solution, they present a variety of colors with different shades, making the rain flower stone beautiful.
[Edit this paragraph] Distinguish the true and false of the rain flower stone.
The stock of yuhua stone in geology and mineral resources has been very limited, and the crazy unprotected mining in recent ten years has led to less and less yuhua stone. In the past, when we were young, we could look for many rain stones at the foot of the mountain. It's almost impossible now. So now the rain flower stones are more and more expensive, and things are rare.
So, what are the characteristics of the real rain flower stone?
1 Color: Rainflower Stone is a natural fossil, just like amber. You can see many natural shapes and colors on this stone. Now stripes can see more shapes, and the colors are mostly yellow, red, green and white. If there are landscapes or figures in the rain flower stones, they will be priceless, precious and very rare.
Shape: Everyone has seen stones. Stones can't have regular shapes. Rain flower stones are mainly irregular ovals with different thicknesses. In a word, nature must be irregular.
Hardness: The composition of rain flower stone is mainly silicon dioxide, so the hardness is extremely high. Well, you can't touch stones and eggs, hehe.
4 weight: the stone must be very heavy, and you can feel it in your hand.
Characteristics of fake rain flower stones:
1 made of artificial glass and resin: things made of glass are easily broken, with regular shapes (such as spheres) and patterns, without any natural traces. The fake resin makes it easier to distinguish. Generally, the fake rain flower stones sold in the market are round transparent sheets with some patterns and soft texture. The package is a plastic bag.
2. Pebbles are used as rain flower stones: This kind of fake stone is more common in the market, because pebbles have the characteristics of most rain flower stones. The main way to tell the difference is to look at the color. Pebbles are shapeless, usually dark red or dark lumps, so pebbles have no ornamental value. They can only be used as stones, such as paving roads in parks, which can be seen in most areas now.
Rain flower stones are beautiful. I hope more and more friends like it. I hope I can tell the truth at a glance through my introduction.
In addition, most of the stones in the rain flower stone gift box sold in the general market are polished, because the rain flower stone has no regular shape and needs to be polished into a more suitable shape to adapt to people's aesthetics and facilitate packaging. Polishing makes the surface of yuhua stone smooth and shiny, and it does not need to be stored in water.
[Edit this paragraph] The origin of the rain flower stone
Shi Yuhua is produced in the gravel layer of Yuhuatai in Nanjing. Yuhuatai gravel layer is the sediment of ancient Yangtze River and its tributaries Qinhuai River and Chuhe River. The geological age of about12 million-3 million years ago was formed, namely Miocene, Pliocene and even the early fourth season. Yuhuatai gravel layer is an important stratum near Nanjing, which was named by geologists Liu and Zhao Rujun at the 1924 World Geological Congress. The source of gravel in Yuhuatai gravel layer is related to the Yangtze River and its tributaries.