The crystal of cinnabar mineral is peculiar, the single crystal is rhombohedral, and the twins are often interspersed with main spears. Diamond luster, bright red, translucent, fragile, complete cinnabar crystal is also a kind of gem, called Zhu Bao sand.
The useful element of cinnabar is mercury, which is the only liquid metal in nature and is mostly used in chemical industry, instruments, medicine, arts and crafts and so on. According to geologists, Fenghuang is rich in huge cinnabar ore field, which has been listed as a comprehensive cinnabar-rich ore belt in the Pacific Ocean by Chinese and foreign scientists, attracting worldwide attention.
Friends who come to Phoenix may notice that there is a red mineral crystal in a shop in Hongqiao, which is quite mysterious. What is this? This is-cinnabar.
Cinnabar is mainly produced in the border area between Hunan Fenghuang Tea Farm and Guizhou Tongren. The produced cinnabar is colorful and radiant, and is famous for producing good sand.
Cinnabar, also known as Sudan, cinnabar, red lead, red sand and cinnabar, is granular or flaky. Bright red or dark red, shiny. The hardness is 2-2.5. The specific gravity is 8.09-8.2, and the system is triangular. It is heavy, brittle and flaky, and shiny without powder, odorless and tasteless, mainly containing mercury sulfide (HgS).
In feng shui, cinnabar is taken from the vein of the essence of the sun and the moon. Because it absorbs the meaning of heaven and earth, it has a strong positive magnetic field. Unlike jade and dzi beads, cinnabar feels cold in hand, but it is warm in hand, indicating that cinnabar has a strong positive magnetic field.
In Xiangxi, where witchcraft and Nuo culture prevail, people regard cinnabar as a treasure, wear it on their bodies, or use it for building houses, erecting doors, tombs and installing monuments. Among the mysterious corpse drivers in Xiangxi, the corpse driver blocked the seven thieves of the corpse driver with cinnabar to suppress evil spirits. Cinnabar is also the best luck, blessing and wealth in the world. If the feng shui in a place is not good and the evil spirits are too heavy, using cinnabar has obvious miraculous effect of suppressing evil spirits.
Cinnabar can also be used as pigment. "Painting cow Oracle Bone Inscriptions" refers to grinding cinnabar into red powder and drawing the notch embedded in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions to show eye-catching. This practice has a history of thousands of years. On the fabric of 0 soil of Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, the pattern drawn by cinnabar is still gorgeous after 2000. Cinnabar is also often used to make inkpad, and calligraphy and painting often fade and fall off, and the seal is as bright as new. Perhaps this ability to resist time erosion is also one of the reasons why the alchemist chose this thing. Taoism regards cinnabar as the most magical mineral, and Dong Bin's "On the Way to Truth" says that cinnabar "feels the breath of the sun and the moon and is the first stone". The writing symbol must be cinnabar, the most sacred green word in Taoism-a prayer document dedicated to the gods during fasting-and also written on green paper with cinnabar. This has just spread to the secular world, and cinnabar is regarded as a sacred object.
Zhong Kui, who used to hang cinnabar paintings on the Dragon Boat Festival in the old days, said that exorcism was particularly effective. Many ancient women directly took the name of "cinnabar", and the bright red color seemed to condense China's feelings for 5,000 years, which was very beautiful. However, it is estimated that few people know that cinnabar can be used to grind ink and can grind out colored ink, much like a girl's changeable heart, which hides a feeling of being just outside and soft inside. Cinnabar can be used in medicine for restless mind and palpitation and insomnia, and can also be used to treat convulsion and epilepsy. It has a good curative effect on sores, sore throat and aphtha. It is also widely used in national defense chemical industry, anti-radiation laser and anti-adhesion of ships. It has the reputation of "soft ruby".
In recent years, with the continuous depletion of resources, cinnabar, as a high-quality, rare and non-renewable natural mineral product, has risen in the international market, and mineral crystals and handicrafts with high appreciation value have become treasures of natural museums and collectors at home and abroad. Li Keran, a famous master of Chinese painting, painted "All Mountains are Red" with cinnabar, and the auction price of a 3. 1 square foot work reached 50 1 10,000 yuan.
A cinnabar crystal collected in geological museum, Beijing, is 10.8cm long, 4.4cm wide, 4.2cm high and has a net weight of 237g, making it the king of cinnabar in the world. The industrious and clever Phoenix people have developed many cinnabar handicrafts by using modern technology and folk unique cinnabar processing technology, which are fondle admiringly by tourists and exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and other economically developed countries and regions. Cinnabar symbolizes and foretells the wealth, auspiciousness and peace of the owner's life, and permeates the ancient and mysterious Xiangxi culture.