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  1. Ruby is a veritable precious gem. It refers to the color of red and pink. It is a kind of rigida and is also known as rose purple gemstone. It can be seen that the red of this gem has a lot to do with the red of the rose.
    The ruby ​​texture is hard, and the hardness is only under the diamond. And this blood -red ruby ​​is the most cherished, commonly known as "pigeon blood red". This kind of dark red, bright and strong color can show the true face of the ruby ​​at a glance. It symbolizes noble, love and benevolence.
    Legend that before fighting in ancient samurai, sometimes a small mouth was cut on the body and an ruby ​​was embedded in the port. They thought that this could achieve the purpose of the knife and gun.
    , at the same time, because the ruby ​​is filled with a strong anger and strong colors, people used to think that it was an incarnation of an undead bird and had a warm fantasy. Moreover, it is said that the left hand wears a ruby ​​ring or a ruby ​​brooch on the left chest has the magic of turning the enemy as a friend.
    The "Hou Han Book • Southwest Biography" in our country has a record of ruby: "There are light beads in Bonan County, Yongchang County, and light beads. There are yellow beads, white beads, green beads, and blue beads." It is called "light beads", indicating that red and sapphire had been recognized during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
    The ruby ​​is called "red jade" in "Hou Han Book • Dongyi Biography". According to records, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Fuyu Kingdom, in Xuanzhang North Thousand Miles. There are weak water in the north. The place is two thousand miles, and the land is also ... famous horses, red jade, mink, big pearls like jujube. " It is north of Yinnan County to the south of Shuangcheng County, Heilongjiang Province.
    "Hou Han Book • Dongyi Biography" also records: "Lou Lou, the country of Gu Su Shen also. In the world of more than a thousand miles in the northeast of Fuyu, the east side of the sea, the south and northwo depression, I do not know the pole of the north. Duoduo mountain dangerous, human shapes are like husbands, and different words are different. There are five valleys, linen, red jade, and good marten. " It is said that it lasts for more than 600 years from the Western Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty. By the 5th century, the number was changed.
    During the Qin and Han dynasties, Lou's activity area was in the widespread area in the northeast of Liaoning and the east of the two provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, north of Heilongjiang, and east of the Wusi River. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the power of Lou began to decline.
    "Emperor Hanwu's Inner Biography" described the ruby ​​called "fire jade": "Dai Jiuyun's night light, swaying six fire jade." The detailed description, and this description is quite literary:
    The first year of the Emperor Wuzong Huichang, the husband Yu Guogong Huoyu Three Dou and Songfeng Stone. The fire jade is red, half inches long, and the upper and lower tip are round. For dozens of steps, the accumulation can ignite the tripod, and the room is not stubborn.
    "Half -inch" is about the largest size of the tribute jade treasure. Such a size can be easily surpassed by red skin, red agate, red garnet or obsidian.
    The shape is "upper and lower circle", which indicates that it has a good crystallization form, so it is impossible to be a nephrite, red agate or obsidian without single -crystalline forms, nor can it be a round ball or a near -like circle. The bead -shaped red garnet can only be ruby.
    "Fire Jade San Dou" indicated at least hundreds of hundreds, indicating that the amount of gems was not small at that time.
    "Ten Tens of Lights" indicates that the treasure has a relatively prominent reflection ability, but it does not rule out exaggerated ingredients. "The accumulation can ignite the tripod, and the indoor room is not stunned. People often use fried clear wine." That is to say, it can be used to cook rice, heating, and wine. Specific metaphors and imagination.
    "Old Tang Book" records: "Bohai Ben Music, East Poor Haixi, Khitan, long live in the sky, Du Liao water, and the foundation of the country. The place is 5,000 miles. Korean, North Korea, and Haibei. "
    The here means that the ancient Fuyu became a piece of millet after the Tang Dynasty. And the millet is the water of the millet, living in the Songhua River Basin. The black water 靺鞨, who lives in the Heilongjiang Basin today, is uniformly referred to as "靺鞨" in our history books.
    and in the area of ​​住, it is rich in red gemstone, and it is named after the Dai people. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says "the red red person, the Song people are called 靺 鞨"; "Dan Lead General Records" also says "as big as a giant chestnut, China is‘ 靺鞨 ’”.
    The "Weili" of Gao Sima "Weiyi" in the Song Dynasty quoted the Tang Dynasty "Tang Bao Ji" recorded: "The red maggots are as big as a giant chestnut, and the red is like Zhu Ying. nIt in the Tomb of the Liao Dynasty in the Tongliao Naman Banner of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a large number of jewelry was found. The Alishan Rose Peak of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region also found a plain ruby ​​of the tombs of the Liao Dynasty. These findings explain: At least from the Liao Dynasty, ruby ​​in the northern region has been developed.
    The Ming and Qing dynasties, red and sapphires are used in large quantities of court jewelry, and folk wearers have gradually increased. During the famous Ming Dynasty Dingling excavation, a large number of high -quality red and sapphire jewelry were obtained.
    The famous national treasure gold embedded jewelry gold cup of the Qing Dynasty, with 9 rubies inlaid. The "Golden Yonggu" Cup is a special wine glass when the emperor holds a pen when he holds a pen. The dragon -like tripod, elephant nose -shaped front, the cup is full of babies, and the pearl and ruby ​​are used as the heart. The cup body is engraved with 4 words "Jin Yong Gu Gu".
    The Empress Dowager Cixi loves ruby ​​very much, and his crown has a pomegranate petal -sized ruby. After her death, there was a pair of rubies in the funeral, 27 Ruby Buddha, 60 ruby ​​apricots, 40 ruby ​​jujubes, and 3,790 red, sapphire jewelry and small carvings of other shapes.
    The official titles such as princes and ministers in the Qing Dynasty were distinguished by the type of gemstone. Among them, the prince and the first official are ruby, and the sapphire is the top label of the three officers.
    The legend believes that people wearing ruby ​​jewelry will be healthy and long -lived, happy in love, harmony in the family, and get rich; another legend believes that wearing a ruby ​​chest ornament or a ruby ​​ring on the left hand can be merged everywhere. Ji, become enemies as friends.
    This in Changle County, Shandong Province found a red and sapphire consecutive body, weighing 67.5 carats. It is called "gem gemstone", which can be called a rare miracle in the world. In addition, there are rubies and sapphires in the Mu Emperor Muqing and Ning'an in the Mudan River Basin in the eastern part of Heilongjiang Province. Rule block, the maximum more than one carat.

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