The difference between chicken blood stone and chicken blood jade

Chicken blood stone, Shoushan stone, Qingtian stone, Bahrain stone side by side, enjoy the laudatory name of China's "four national stones", mainly used as seals or craft carving materials, chicken blood jade is the ground stone of cinnabar strip, its color is more red than cinnabar, because its color is as red as chicken blood, so people commonly known as chicken blood jade, let's take a look at the difference between chicken blood stone and chicken blood jade!

The difference between the origin of chicken blood stone and chicken blood jade

1. Chicken blood stone: chicken blood stone was first found in Yuyan Mountain in Changhua, Zhejiang Province in China. later, Bahrain chicken blood stone was found in Balin right Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and in Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and other places in the 1990s.

2. Chicken blood jade: approved by collectors and experts and scholars in the chicken blood jade industry, it comes from the north slope and west slope of Weiqingling in Longsheng County. A small part of the ruby pebbles are bright in color, dense and delicate in stone, without cracks and sand eyes, and have been buried deeply in the ground. a very small number of high-end ruby pebbles covered with sand and gravel for a long time, moistened by mineral solution and not weathered.

The texture difference between chicken blood stone and chicken blood jade

1. Chicken blood stone: chicken blood stone is only a kind of stone and does not belong to the category of jade. The "blood" contained in chicken blood stone is cinnabar, mainly mercury compounds, the blood color is bright red, positive red, crimson, purplish red, etc., the shape of chicken blood is block red, striped red, star red, magenta and so on, and it is better to be fresh, coagulate, thick, deep and thick, and it is better to have aggregation or spot balance in deep stone.

2. Chicken blood jade: the "blood" of chicken blood jade belongs to the oxide containing iron and silicon, and compared with Hetian jade, its color is mainly black and red, often yellow, purple, white, green and other colors. the most distinctive feature is that its tone is mainly red, the jade is delicate, tough and lustrous, and it has good polishing performance and glass luster.

The structural difference between chicken blood stone and chicken blood jade

1. Chicken blood stone: the main mineral of "blood" in chicken blood stone is cinnabar (mercuric sulfide HgS), and mercuric sulfide is included in the list of toxic chemicals prohibited or strictly restricted by the State Environmental Protection Bureau. The main minerals in the chicken blood stone are dickite, kaolinite, pyrophyllite, bauxite and so on.

2. Chicken blood jade: chicken blood jade is a collection of quartzite, chalcedony and hematite, in which the "blood" is hematite, which is non-toxic and harmless to the human body, and "ground" is a collection of quartz, chalcedony and hematite.

The price difference between chicken blood stone and chicken blood jade

1. Chicken blood stone: chicken blood stone is produced in Changhua Town, Lin'an City, Zhejiang Province, Balin right Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and Xunyang County, Shaanxi Province. now it has been exhausted, and its value is quite high. the price of a good chicken blood stone can reach tens of millions, which is equivalent to that of jadeite.

2. Chicken blood jade: chicken blood jade is produced in Longsheng County, Guilin. Some time ago, there was no standard, and the price was not high, generally between thousands and hundreds of thousands, but there were also special cases. After the Ninth China-ASEAN Expo in 2012 was designated as a national gift, at the auction on September 23, Guilin Jixueyu Chinese dragon sold 3.5 million yuan and Guilin Jixueyu Guan Gong sold 5.9 million yuan, breaking the highest auction price in Guilin's history. But generally speaking, the price of chicken blood jade is still relatively low at present.