In ancient Egypt, ancient Mexico and ancient Persia, turquoise was regarded as a mystical object and was often used as an amulet and burial object. In the customs of Tibetan and American Indians in  Crystal Dance Allure, turquoise is often the first meaningful gift given by elders to a newborn baby, and a piece of natural turquoise in the baby's cradle will make the baby sleep more peacefully.

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The color of turquoise is characterized by green, which is rich in cultural symbolism. Green means "permission to pass". Green can be a protective color, so the army and field teams usually wear green uniforms. Green is the color of plants, which symbolizes life in Chinese culture and is also a symbol of spring. As turquoise continues to be known by more and more people, more and more doubts follow.

1. "Isn't turquoise just a stone, why is it so expensive?" ”

1. Aesthetic value
The soft sense of light, coquettish color, and delicate texture highlight the aesthetic value of turquoise. The aesthetic of turquoise is first and foremost the color. The color can be dark or light, even with light stripes, spots, and black-brown wires. Turquoise is most characterized by opaque azure blue, blue and blue-green, emerald green and other pure colors and dense structure, which can be used as materials for high-level art carving and jewelry. Turquoise also comes in light blue, blue-green, green, light green, yellow-green, gray-green, pale white, etc. Under long-wave ultraviolet light, it can fluoresce from pale green to blue. It has a soft glass luster or waxy sheen after polishing. The high-quality products are polished like glazed porcelain, so they are called "porcelain turquoise".

2. Resource value
At present, the world's turquoise is mainly concentrated in Hubei, Iran, Chile, the United States, etc., especially in Shiyan, Hubei Province, which has the largest reserves, accounting for more than 70% of the global total. But for a long time, turquoise did not gain the market position it deserved. In the past, Hubei's turquoise was generally sold to the international market, until 2009, when the Hubei government stopped the mining of some mines, and the turquoise resources were revealed, and since then, the price of turquoise has risen significantly.
Affected by factors such as the closure of the mine, turquoise has rapidly become popular, from wool to ornamental stones, carvings, ornaments, etc., the price has risen rapidly, and has increased tenfold or even ten times so far.

3. Economic value
In recent years, turquoise has created a "stone economy" in its production area. At the foot of "Nuwa Mountain", local residents are busy farming, and farming is idle to make stones (turquoise)".
The economic value is also reflected in the market value of turquoise itself, the current market price of turquoise ranges from 100 to 1,000 per gram, and some time ago there were strings of turquoise Buddha beads on TV that were identified as worth 6,000 yuan per gram.

4. Collection value
: turquoise jewelry is exquisite, unique, not only suitable for their own wear and gift, but also has a high art collection value. The collection of turquoise involves a wide range of knowledge, and the collection of natural and high-quality turquoise is preferred, and the rarer and more precious turquoise. The higher its collectible value.

5. Practical value

The practical value mainly refers to the fact that turquoise can be used to make jewelry to wear, such as making rings, chest ornaments, earrings and making all kinds of necklaces, bracelets, clothing, etc. In addition, the practical value of turquoise is also reflected in the fact that turquoise chips can be used as pigments and can also be used as medicinal materials.

6. Decorative value
turquoise is a noble and sacred ornament, since ancient times it has often been embedded in gold, silver, bronze, its color reflects each other, beautiful and rich in national characteristics. Tibetans and Mongolians are particularly fond of turquoise-inlaid knives, accessories and other handicrafts.

2. Is it normal for turquoise to be black? Why is your turquoise black? Many players have such questions. What's going on?

Usually, there are two reasons why turquoise is worn black, one is that you buy fake turquoise, and the more you wear it, the blacker it becomes; The second is that the way of playing is improper, and it is easy to play black with the wrong method. Let's talk about the first situation first, many people always say that their turquoise is getting darker and darker, but in fact, there is a problem. Many black-hearted merchants pass off as fake, such as magnesite sold as turquoise, you say that such a mine is in your hands, and it is strange that you can make a slurry! Because your plate is not turquoise at all!

As for the second case, it is very common for turquoise to wear black because of improper playing methods. Everyone knows that playing turquoise requires clean hands, and hands that are not sweaty do not need to wear gloves. In fact, the specific situation depends on each person's hand and the density of turquoise. For example, hard pine can first wear gloves to play for about a month, according to the turquoise surface hanging porcelain and then play on the hand plate, don't think about loose and bubble pine, basically the hand is easy to black.

Turquoise wears black, some of them are sweaty hands, usually do not pay attention to cleaning, just get started on the plate, it doesn't matter once or twice, the number of times will naturally wear black. There are also some sweaty hand players who play directly with sweaty hands or soak in oil and brush oil in order to quickly make the turquoise pulp colored, and it is easy to wear the turquoise black by accident.

There is also a situation where turquoise is worn black because of personal physique. Different people have different physiques, and many people's physiques are not suitable for wearing turquoise, such as if the humidity is too heavy, then his turquoise is a physical problem. Therefore, when your turquoise is black, look for the reasons from these aspects.

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