Soapstone strip is cinnabar dickite, which further color than red cinnabar. Because it was the color of blood, like red, so people commonly known as soapstone. Bloodstone earliest discovery of Zhejiang Changhua soapstone jade rock. Later it was found Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Balinyouqi Bahrain Bloodstone. In the 1990s and Shaanxi (Xunyang), Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and other places discovered soapstone. Now that the Changhua cinnabar (mercury) is almost complete, so the production of soapstone production is quite limited, increasing the market price is not bad.

　　According to legend, ancient times there is a bird called "bird lion", also known as Phoenix, pugnacious. One day, foraging flying jade rock, see a phoenix are hatching, sudden and devastating evil, its attack. Unprepared Phoenix snapped his leg. Phoenix heard the news arrived, against the common enemy, defeated the "bird lion." While Phoenix won, but Phoenix bled red jade rock the whole, then it became a gloss Ying through as jade bloodstone. According to research, soapstone mining began in the Ming Dynasty, and reputation in the Qing Dynasty, Kang Xi and Qianlong, Jiaqing Emperor very appreciated Bloodstone, etc., will be as Bao Xi chapter material. State Post Bureau recently issued a set of "Soapstone India" special stamps is printed on both Bao Xi.

　　In the early 1970s, former Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka, the former Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira to our visit, Premier Zhou Enlai on the Bloodstone chapter, two VIP ceremony as a gift. Is a surgeon who played stone sink and seal brought into sharper focus by feel, Mr. Liu Youshi. So, big noise Bloodstone fame in Japan, set off a wave of collection Bloodstone boom. When a large number of Japanese tourists to China, will Bloodstone as the preferred gift back home. In China, people on the Bloodstone collection of investment enthusiasm is also increasing every year.

　　Bloodstone is cinnabar fine crystal dip made with bright red as blood-like color, known as the "National Treasure" and famous. Bloodstone is evil Hannaford mascot of the Tibetan people, the house also can be evil; imperial possession, country and bringing peace can town. For thousands of years, known as the "one gram chicken three grams of gold" reputation of soapstone, has been literati, business Jiafu Hao, dignitaries, emperors and collectors cherish. Tai Chi Bloodstone, hard wear-resistant, beautiful color, quite collectible.

Bloodstone identified

Soapstone chicken can be divided three ways, texture, weight, etc. Classification:

　　1, false with blood: No silver spots, unevenness in color, line thickness varies, the pattern is not natural, the arrangement does not meet the rule of chicken occurrence, meso easily distinguished visually.

　　2, Texture: plastic compound with counterfeiting, there is no sense of stone, stone chips with no Daoke powder. Some have even soapstone slices, then paste on the rough stone, then caulk and adhesive powder, mimicking really like soapstone carefully in bright light you can verify the authenticity, or to see if the same color and shape painting or whether coherence is not difficult to see through. Furthermore, with the powder was added compound, the mold coated with "carmine" or from chicken red Drawing counterfeiting.

　　3, Weight: Bloodstone weight than real calm, fake chicken floating lighter weight, as long as careful testing with the following steps: (1) finely ground with emery cloth, really soapstone material will be presented stone powder and the phenomenon of cinnabar red, fossil thereof is not; (2) carving knife, soapstone was false quality plastic crimped chippings after the knife, can feel it; (3) by fire, will be false soapstone charred plastic odor, is not true soapstone ; (4) the quality of the heavy by hand, due to different texture and soapstone false feel lighter.

Soapstone maintenance

　　Bloodstone should avoid prolonged sunlight or a lamp in order to avoid red with blood due partially obscured and reduced the value of the property. Usually it is desirable to put on or immersed in oil well run, as general jade the stone and air separation, due to temperature variations to reduce the possibility of cracks caused by stone, the stone of moist and may increase. Also avoid the collision, cracked and fell to.

　　Soapstone suitable play, friction, can form "old light", also known as "Glory", and a "Shi" quality is more pleasant. Its truth and Pan Yu exactly the same reason. But engraved with thin meaning of the Indian stone carvings or should be avoided, so as not to destroy the carving to make it beyond recognition.