What is the difference between bloodstone and Shoushan stone?

Bloodstone is divided into Changhua chicken blood and Bahrain chicken blood, and Shoushan stone is produced in Shoushan Township, Fuzhou. All three belong to the four major seal stone categories in China.

Shoushan stone: Stone is distributed in the northern suburbs of Fuzhou City, Lianjiang, Luoyuan junction of the "Golden Triangle" area. If the vein is trending, it can be divided into three series: Gaoshan, Qishan and Yueyang.

Shoushan stone impresses people's hearts with its brilliant color "Tianzi national color". The color trend and concentration of Shoushan stone are unpredictable. The purple is bright, the green is pleasing to the eye, the red is warm and luxurious, the black is solemn and mysterious, and the white is elegant and chic.

A stone of multi-colored multicolored stones is often beautiful and gorgeous, which makes people fascinated.

Because the Shoushan mining area was mined early, the old saying "field pits, water holes, mountain pits" refers to the ore mined at the bottom of the field, water streams and caves in this mining area, and after years of mining, more than 100 varieties have emerged.

In Shoushan stone, there is a kind of "king of stones" - Tian Huang. Because it is produced at the bottom of the field, and there is more yellow, it is called Tiankeng stone or Tianhuang. Tianshi is classified by color, and can generally be divided into yellow fields, red fields, white fields, gray fields, black fields and flower fields.

Chang fossil: named because it is produced in Changhua, Lin'an, Zhejiang. Changhua stone is relatively sandy, generally slightly harder than Shoushan stone and Qingtian stone, and the bloodstone in Changhua fossil is commonly known as bloodstone because its color is as bright red as chicken blood.

It is the essence of the stone, with bright red and gorgeous, crystal clear characteristics, has always been cherished by people like agate, jadeite, diamond, known as the Chinese national treasure. Bloodstone has been discovered and mined for more than 1,000 years.

The earliest bloodstone found in China is the bloodstone of Yuyan Mountain in Changhua, Zhejiang. According to research, the mining of bloodstone began in the Ming Dynasty, and was famous in the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing and other emperors appreciated Changhua bloodstone very much, and used it as the chapter material of the treasure seal. Later, Bahrain bloodstone from the Bahrain Right Banner in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia was discovered.

In the 90s of the last century, bloodstone was found in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and other places. Changhua "chicken blood", Shoushan "Tianhuang", Qingtian "closed door" are collectively known as "three treasures of printing stones".

Bahrain Stone: Bahrain Mine is located in the northwest of Daban Town, Bahrain Right Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, and in the area of large and small fossil mountains north of Yamatu Mountain. The scientific name of Bahrain stone is pyrophyllite.

Bahrain stone has been discovered as early as more than 1,000 years ago, and as a tribute to the imperial court, by a generation of Tianjiao Genghis Khan called "the stone of heaven". Bahrain stone is delicate, moist and soft, soft and hard, suitable for carving seals or carving all kinds of fine handicrafts, and is a high-quality stone.

The bloodstone in the Bahrain stone, has the reputation of "grassland treasure", warm and crisp, moderate soft and hard, suitable for engraving, is a wonderful product in the stone, people can not help but produce rich reverie in addition to appreciating, sigh the magic of nature's creation.

The most fundamental thing is that the origin is different. Fujian does not produce bloodstone. Bloodstone has come out of Changhua, Zhejiang. There are also those from Inner Mongolia and Bahrain. Now the market is more common is Bahraini chicken blood.

There are four main series of stones used for carving seals in China, including Shoushan stone, Qingtian stone, Changhua stone and Bahrain stone. Among them, there is bloodstone in Changhua fossil and Bahrain stone, and the most precious bloodstone is mainly produced in Changhua, Zhejiang.

Shoushan stone is Fujian, and the bloodstone is divided into Zhejiang bloodstone and Inner Mongolia bloodstone, and the area is different, and the texture of the stone is not the same, and the varieties of Shoushan stone are more abundant.

1. Minerals are different:

Bloodstone can be found under more than 20x magnification in the presence of greenish-black "pyrite" crystals and silvery-white mercury organisms. In the industry, this mineral is called "sardine" and is harder than bloodstone.

2. Different textures:

Since bloodstone is a mineral, it takes many billions of years to form crystals during the hydrothermal cooling process. Its textures are naturally beautiful and complex. Its six-sided texture is coherent, and there is no discontinuity caused by the six-sided gluing with bloodstone flakes.

3. The height difference is different

Because the pattern of bloodstone is formed by natural crystallization, there is a visual height difference, and the pattern has an obvious three-dimensional sense under the tenfold magnifying glass, and the blood color has a sense of flow, forming a very complex and very beautiful pattern.

4. Different hardness:

Bloodstone is formed in volcanic hydrothermal fluid, the hardness is generally in the degree, with a knife or iron can be gently scratched, fingernails can not scratch for real bloodstone. If you can scratch with your fingernails, bloodstone that cannot be scratched with a knife or iron is made of stone powder and smelted at high temperature with quartz and cinnabar, which is not genuine.

Bloodstone is soft in texture and red, which is a precious material for carving seals. It can also be worn and played.

Translucent, with a jade component like chicken blood.

How to recognize bloodstone and ordinary red stone.

The first Guilin bloodstone. The best quality and most popular bloodstone origin. The biggest highlight of Guilin bloodstone is rich in color.

It is mainly red as the main color, but there are also white and green tones, and the stone with a large proportion of red and more vivid color is the most collectible.

Second, Bahrain bloodstone. The main pit is in the right banner of Bahrain, Mongolia, and the material here is suitable for carving and carving seals.

Bahrain bloodstone has a warm texture and rich color. There are several kinds of red, bright red and dark red, which are generally flake red, spotted red and striped red, the more concentrated the color of Bahrain bloodstone, the higher the degree of condensation, and the higher the value of the material that occupies more area.

Third, Changhua bloodstone. The ingredients here can be summarized in four ways.

1. Strange characteristics, the color and shape of bloodstone are strange and special, which is very rare.

2. Ornamental, with peculiar colors, shapes, textures and textures, the charm is boundless.

3. Culture, it occupies a place in China's traditional culture, whether it is the princes and nobles or the common people, they are very cherished and pampered.

4. Uniqueness, which other countries do not have.

Related Notes:

Bloodstone is a ground stone with cinnabar strips, named after the bright red cinnabar (cinnabar) that resembles chicken blood. Bloodstone contains cinnabar (cinnabar), quartz, chalcedony 35% 45%. Magnetite, hematite 6% 12%. Cinnabar is about 5% 8%.

Bloodstone is juxtaposed with Shoushan stone, Qingtian stone and Bahrain stone, and enjoys the reputation of China's "Four Great Stones". It is mainly used as a seal or craft carving material. China was the first to discover Yuyan Mountain Bloodstone in Changhua, Zhejiang.

Later, Bahrain bloodstone from the Bahrain Right Banner in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia was discovered. In the 90s of the 20th century, bloodstone was found in Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other places.

Bloodstone and Tian Huangshi and Qingtian Light Frozen Stone are known as the three treasures of printing stones. Bloodstone has made a unique contribution to the development of Chinese Indian culture, and at the same time, a unique genre of "chicken blood" carving has been formed in the jade carving process, and its works are known for being "magnificent, exquisite, elegant and colorful".

Due to the fact that the production of bloodstone is quite limited, the market has endured.

Shoushan stone deposits are distributed in the northern suburbs of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, between the surrounding mountains and streams, west from Qishan, east to Lianjiang County, north from Dunyang, south to Yueyang, about more than ten kilometers square. It is dominated by pyrophyllite, followed by quartz, diaspore and kaolinite, and a small amount of pyrite. Bloodstone is produced in the source of the Grand Canyon in West Zhejiang, 50 kilometers west of Changhua Town, Lin'an City, Zhejiang Province - Yuyan Mountain with an altitude of more than 1,300 meters, belonging to the Tianmu Mountain System, the north branch of the Xianxialing Mountain Range, surrounded by mountains, the mountains stretch, the mountains and valleys have formed unique climatic conditions, and the local folk song is:

The board bridge is straight and the ridge is open, and the wind and rain are constantly traced. Bloodstone is generally measured according to the four standards of blood color, blood volume, ground and shape, and according to the color of blood, there are bright red, vermilion, dark red, yellow blood and red and yellow blood!

It's not bloodstone, it's a colored quartz river pebble by eye, the color is very beautiful, and it can be collected as a strange stone.

Bloodstone can be divided into three categories: Changhua bloodstone, Bahrain bloodstone and other origins. Bloodstone contains cinnabar, cinnabar, quartz, calcite, stibnite, dikailite, kaolinite, dolomite and other minerals, and most of them contain mercury sulfide and other components of sulfide and silicate minerals. The origin is different, the texture composition is also different, the bloodstone does not have a fixed shape, it is called a stone, and its color has a piece of blood, strip blood, plum blossom blood, and floating cloud blood.

Bloodstone is composed of two parts: "earth" and "blood". It is generally believed that the mineral component of "blood" is mainly cinnabar. The composition of "earth", such as Changhua bloodstone, the mineral composition of "earth" is mainly dikaiite in clay minerals, and also contains a considerable amount of kaolinite, alum stone, halloysite, quartz, pyrite, etc.

In the early days, ancient literati and bureaucrats used bloodstone to make seals, which was a very prestigious chapter material. Bahrain bloodstone is mainly kaolinite and diaspore; The main mineral components of the delicate texture of black frozen bloodstone and hibiscus frozen bloodstone are ground stone and cinnabar; A few years ago, it was found that there was a vein quartz dense block similar to "Jinding Red" on the top of a gold mine in Jilin, in which the cinnabar is very fine, the texture is hard and delicate, and it is also a hard ground containing cinnabar stone, which is locally called cinnabar jade.

Your stone is beautiful, but on the surface it is not bloodstone.

A Zhejiang. A Fujian.