Emerald (canutillos) is known as the king of Emerald, with the bright red of the same rare Ulan efforts margin, one of the international jewelry industry recognized four precious stones (red, blue, green gems and diamonds). Because of its unique green and unique charm, and fantastic legends, favored by Westerners.
Emerald symbolizes kindness, faith, goodness, eternity, luck and happiness, wearing it will bring a lifetime of peace. It is also a stone to commemorate the 55th anniversary of marriage.
Emerald is very old gems, jewelry had been used in ancient Egyptian times. Emerald English as canutillos or emerala, from Persian zumurud (emeralds), evolved after the Latin smaragdus, and misinformation is esmeraude, emeraude, then became the English spelling of the Chinese transliteration. Tao Zongyi in its "cease cultivation recorded" in the transliteration of "help thorn." Our old still "picture green", "help Shuilv" and so it is called. Hong Kong also known as its "green Luzon." [2] genus emerald beryl family, is hexagonal. Crystal appearing hexagonal prism-shaped, rare vertebral surface. And a bottom surface with a cylinder axis pits.
Emerald is one of the very old gem varieties, the best quality emeralds can be even more valuable than diamonds. In ancient Egyptian times it had been used as jewelry. At that time the famous mine - Cleopatra (after the name of Cleopatra), has been due to a large number of mining and depletion.
Emerald is hard to get flawless gem. In fact, it can be said emerald in a certain number of cracks and inclusions, cracks it contains much of the complexity of the species, and even the researchers called a "garden."
Emerald has always been one of the precious stones. According to legend, dating back 6,000 years ago, ancient Babylon, someone will offer to the goddess before. In the Persian Gulf kingdom, Gujia Le, women especially, like emerald jewelry. Thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and ancient Greeks also happy to make jewelry with emeralds. Chinese people are very fond of emerald. Ming and Qing imperial You Xizu emerald. Ming emperors take it as a green cat's eye, like precious gold, the "miter need cat eye, emerald," he said. Emperor Wanli of the Ming jade set with a large emerald on, now in the possession Ming Tombs Dingling Museum. In addition to a large number of death Empress Dowager inlaid pearls and other precious stones, there are two each weighing about 5 money emerald Jinbei on the gold cap.
Contains too much material will naturally affect the value of precious stones, but the stones researchers, emerald inclusion is a rare specimen, was observed by means of different contents, can distinguish the origin of different gemstones and their growth environment. Although emerald inclusions greatly affect the appearance of precious stones, its beautiful green gems still no other foot its rival.
From emerald green chromium ions therein, this feature can be observed Charles filters. Under Charles filters, due to the presence of chromium ions, most of the emerald will appear dark red, the other green substitutes for the most part appear dark green. This rule can only be used as a reference in the identification, not of itself determine the authenticity, because some African production of emeralds in red color filter does not, on the contrary, some man-made emerald is showing a strong red.
Since stress generated in the formation by extrusion normally, emerald crystal shape almost all broken, and there are many contents, the crystal complete extremely rare. Emerald green color are not the same with other natural emeralds, coupled with its large number of inclusions characteristics, more experienced people can tell the difference.