Tianzhu's Tibetan name is (si, si), and Chinese translation is "si" or "se", also known as "Tianshi". In Tibetan-Chinese dictionaries, the explanation of dzi Zhu is: "agate, cat's eye, a kind of precious stone, commonly known as nine eyes." Medicine can cure cerebral hemorrhage. " The earliest dzi bead is the Xiangxiong dzi bead, which was born in the ancient Xiangxiong Kingdom and the most powerful ancient civilization across Central Asia and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the sacred object of Yongzhong Sect and the first of the seven treasures of Tibetans. "

Xianggong dzi beads were enshrined and blessed by the accomplished monk Dade, and were hidden by the Buddha or passed down from generation to generation. The existing (old) dzi beads are all ancient remains, which are extremely rare. Xiangxiong dzi beads are the oldest and purest dzi beads witnessed in kind at present, and they are extremely rare and rare treasures. Elephant male dzi beads are the product of ancient elephant male civilization.

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Classification of natural dzi beads:

1, round plate bead (also called eye stone, eyeball, eye plate bead, etc. );

2. Pharmacist beads (mostly natural threads and artificially etched);

3. Silk-wrapped agate (many commercial aliases);

4.Pharma dzi beads (once the Himalayan region was an ocean, and Pharma dzi beads were once fossils of aquatic organisms, so they were regarded as sacred because of their roundness);

5. Silicified wood (some trees in desert areas can be jadeite, and a few have rings on them, which can be polished into ornaments);

6, Qian Shi (intensive phobia patients carefully search).

2. The classification of artificial dzi beads:

Artificial dzi beads are called "inlaid agate", "inlaid chalcedony", "etched agate" and "etched chalcedony" in theoretical circles. Because the ancestors did not know the difference between monocrystalline silicon dioxide and polycrystalline silicon dioxide, there is no difference between agate and chalcedony, hereinafter referred to as agate.

1, according to the etching materials, it can be divided into alkali etching agate bath pickling agate. Nitric acid is generally used for pickling, and vegetable alkali is generally used for alkali corrosion.

2. According to the place of origin, it can be divided into Tibetan dzi beads (black lines are painted after white etching), West Asian dzi beads (white lines are etched on red chalcedony), Indian dzi beads (white lines are painted after black etching, such as "Zhu Shou" on turtle back) and Nepalese dzi beads (black and white lines are alternately etched on transparent agate).

3. According to the division of network scholars, it can be divided into pure system, collapse system and impact system.

4. Five methods in Dr. 4.Nebesky Wolkowitz's paper "Prehistoric Beads in Tibet".