Since ancient times, amber has been a spiritual thing in people's minds and a symbol of good luck. 2400 years ago, the ancient Greeks called amber "the gold of the north". In Nero's time in ancient Rome, it was a fashion for nobles to wear amber ornaments. During the Han Dynasty in China, amber rings and necklaces became tributes to the court. In the Five Dynasties, the palace was made of white jade as the pillar and the ceiling was made of amber. The robes and flat crowns of the Song Dynasty emperors were also decorated with amber to show their nobility. Ancient craftsmen carved amber into wishful thinking, mirror boxes, wine glasses, pillows and other things. It is extravagant to hold wine in amber cups at banquets, so Du Fu has a poem "Spring cups are thick, amber is thin". There are many kinds of amber, which is very precious. Wu Kai in the Heavenly Palace said that amber with yellow cat eyes and reddish color is the most valuable, and its price is five times that of gold. In many amber, yellow is a "shipper" as heavy as a rock; Red and yellow, colorful "flower woman"; There are also Lingpo, Lapo, Mingpo, Xiangpo, Xuepo and Meipo. , dazzling. Nowadays, amber is used in many fields, such as extracting spices with amber; Processing into succinic acid and paint; Used as insulating material in electronic industry; All kinds of exquisite amber carving crafts are especially loved by Chinese and foreign consumers. Amber is also a good medicine for treating diseases, and it is listed as the top grade in "Bielu of Famous Doctors", which has the effects of "calming the five internal organs, calming the soul, removing blood stasis and relieving stranguria".
In the eyes of scientists, amber fossils are ancient history books on the earth and precious specimens for studying geological age and ancient ecological environment. The lifelike insects in amber fossils can "tell" people the scene of insect communities in prehistoric forests and the evolution of insects over hundreds of millions of years.
Biologists at the University of California, USA, studied a bug wrapped in amber fossils in the Baltic Sea 400,000 years ago, and found that this bug not only did not rot, but also its tissue was as soft as ever. Microscopically, the internal structure of worm abdominal cells is complete. Experts from California University of Science and Technology also come from a block of 1. The oldest DNA molecules were successfully extracted from weevils sealed in amber fossils 200 million years ago. It was this great discovery that inspired the creation of science fiction writers, which made the science fiction film Jurassic Park come out and imagined the regeneration process of extinct dinosaurs.