Tibetan play style

Chapter 244
"So, I'm actually not a qualified gambler." Xu Yunhan was stunned, it was the first time he heard such a thing, smiled and looked at Cun Baoting, and said, "You always come here every day ?"

"Then I won't come every day. I just come here for a few days when I have nothing to do. I haven't been here for a long time in the past few years." Cun Baoting sighed, this year he asked to come back for the New Year and his family relied on him He returned to China, otherwise, how could his children, who were busy doing business all day long, have time to accompany him to celebrate the Chinese New Year in China.Fortunately, the children were quite filial. Although they were a bit delayed in dealing with business matters after returning to China, they all came back according to his wishes.

Thinking of this, Cun Baoting was in a particularly good mood, and the smile on his face became stronger, and he said happily to Xu Yunhan, "Have a good lunch, why don't you follow me to see something new and exciting."

"What's the excitement? Jieshi? Or the best jadeite?" Xu Yunhan asked with interest.

"It seems that you have a special liking for those stones, little girl. When you talk about excitement, you think of stones." Cun Baoting teased, and then said, "But, the excitement I mentioned this time is not the same as gambling stones. It's not related at all, but the essence is similar. You must have heard of the close relatives of gambling bead and stone gambling."

Xu Yunhan was very surprised, "There are bead gambling activities here?"

"Gambling pearls" is also called gambling pearls, which means buying pearl oysters with money.The reason why it is called "gambling pearls" is because the pearls in the pearl oyster are large and small, and the quality is different.Nowadays, almost all pearl breeding bases have set up bead gambling projects, but only near the pearl breeding bases.

Since ancient times, pearls have been praised for their elegant temperament and pure and clean character.Today, with the adoption of modern technology, pearls have added a bit of fashion on the basis of the original classical charm.Pearl, also known as real pearl and clam pearl, is "mani" in Sanskrit, and it is called mani and mani in Buddhist scriptures. "Responding to the master's words. Zhengyun Moni. That is the general name of the pearl. This cloud is free from dirt. This precious light is pure."

There are also myths and legends related to beautiful pearls. According to legend, a long time ago, Chang'e had a very precious pearl, which was guarded by a golden rooster.The golden rooster accidentally dropped the pearl in the Huansha Creek in Zhuji, so it went to the mortal world to look for it.However, the pearl flew into the belly of a woman while she was washing clothes in Huanshaxi.Then the woman became pregnant, and sixteen months later, the woman gave birth to a baby like white jade.Because he lived in the west of Zhuluo Mountain and his surname was Shi, he was named "Xi Shi".People think that Xi Shi is the incarnation of pearls, so there is a saying that "the pearl shoots the body and conceives Xi Shi".

According to the "History of the Sea · Postscript", Dayu, one of the five emperors in Chinese legend, designated "South Sea fish grass and pearl shellfish" as tributes.According to the analysis of Dayu's living area, the South China Sea at that time should be in today's Jiangnan area. Zhuji and Zhuji are homophonic, and it is likely to be the earliest pearl-producing area in written records.The current freshwater pearl cultivation area in Zhuji City reaches 40 mu, and its annual output accounts for about 80% of the country's total output and 70% of the world's total output.

In the Han Dynasty, the pearl fishing industry in Hepu, Lianzhou, Guangxi was quite developed: "The county does not produce grain, but the sea produces jewelry. Compared with Jiaozhi, it often communicates with traders and trades for grain. Wan Zhen's "Nanzhou Foreign Objects" records that "Hepu people, He is good at swimming and picking pearls, and he was taught to enter the water when he was more than ten years old.The officials forbid the people to pick pearls, and the clever thieves squat at the bottom of the water, scrape clams to get good pearls, and swallow them out. "

Pearls from Hepu, Lianzhou, Guangxi became a tribute in the Tang Dynasty: there are records in the Tang Dynasty that Hepu picked pearls as a tribute.Tang Liu Xun wrote "Ling Biao Lu Yi Chi Zhu": It records that "there is an island in the sea near Lianzhou, and there is a large pond on the island, which is called the Pearl Pond. Every year, the governor repairs the tribute, and the self-supervising pearl households enter the pool to collect the tribute." .

The large tribute-grade real pearl of the Tang Dynasty, known as the "Shangqing Pearl", came from the Western Regions. King Yubin once presented Tang Xuanzong with a "Shangqing Pearl" that "illuminates a room".

In the ancient times when science and technology were underdeveloped, pearl fishing was an extremely dangerous job. The labor force for pearl fishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties was mainly egg miners. "Shuidong Diary" Volume [-] contains: "Gaidanding all live in sea boats to pick pearls, surround the pool with big ships, hang the big walls with stones, don't tie the waists with small ropes, and get pearls without water. When the air is forced, it will shake The rope, the rope moves, people feel that it is twisted, and the popularity is great...Wen Yonglechu, there is no water to fetch, and many shark belly are buried...

Pearl clams in the tropics of the South China Sea have a long life cycle and can produce large and perfect pearls. They were the main pearl producing areas in the Middle Ages. Freshwater clams in HLJ can also produce pearls, but the color is opaque, pure white, and the output is very small. They were used as rare tributes in the Qing Dynasty, called "Dongzhu", and only royal members could wear Dongzhu ornaments.

In modern times, relying on people's wisdom and advanced technology, the production of pearls increased greatly after extensive cultivation of artificial pearls began.Almost all of the treasures in jewelry stores these days are artificial pearls.

But this is a street of strange stones. How can there be gambling beads in the place where you buy jade wool? !This is what Xu Yunhan didn't understand.Moreover, they are all artificially cultivated pearls, unless they are very large, the value will not be very high, so how could they arouse Mr. Cun's interest? !

One must know that compared with betting on stones, bead betting is simply called pediatrics!

"Yes, and it's not an ordinary gambling bead. An old friend got some natural black disc shells, so I came to take a look." Cun Baoting said.

"Natural black shells?!" Xu Yunhan said excitedly, with starry eyes, "Isn't there natural black pearls in it?"

Cun Baoting nodded with a smile, and understood her reaction very well. It seems that there is no woman who is not interested in jewelry and pearls.

"Then I'll follow you to see what's going on." As for the remaining two shops that haven't seen woolen fabrics before, it won't be too late to visit when I have time, Xu Yunhan thought indifferently, mainly because she was concerned about those shops outside. The wool fabrics displayed in the open air have already been disappointed.Sure enough, no one is stupid. Although those who perform poorly may also produce good green jadeite, the probability is quite low, and it is estimated to be even rarer than winning 500 million in the lottery.

Then why not follow the legendary gambling pearls, natural black pearls, if it is real, it will be worth a lot, natural black pearls are very rare and expensive.If her ability can perceive the growth year of the black plate shell, then she can pick out the black plate shell that is most likely to contain a large precious black pearl!
Excited just thinking about it, how could such excitement be missed, so Xu Yunhan brazenly followed Cun Baoting with the other people and walked towards the destination.On the way, I chatted with those uncles for a few words, and then I realized that they also met Cun Baoting by chance, and they had admired him for a long time, and wanted to ask him many questions, so they followed Cun Baoting all the time.

(End of this chapter)