Xuwen Pearl [Guangdong Xuwen Specialty]

What is Xuwen Pearl? Authentic Guangdong Xuwen Specialty: Xuwen Pearl

Summary:Do you want to know what Xuwen Pearl is? This article is a detailed introduction to the Guangdong Xuwen specialty - Xuwen Pearl. It was compiled by the editorial team of China Specialty Network, who reviewed and collected relevant information about Xuwen Pearl. The full text takes about 8 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Xuwen Pearl and the product characteristics of Xuwen Pearl? How did the history of Xuwen pearls come about? How can Xu Wen distinguish between genuine and fake pearls? Wait

Introduction to Xuwen Pearl

Xuwen Pearl is a saltwater pearl with a long history and excellent quality. It was an important trade product as early as the ancient Maritime Silk Road. The Xuwen Sea Pearl, also known as the South Pearl, is a pearl produced from the mother of pearl oysters. Due to the unique geographical environment of the Beibu Gulf, the South Pearl River has been nurtured to be round, delicate, and colorful. Xu Wen's Nanzhu is known as a national treasure and renowned worldwide for its large, round, and charming appearance. Moreover, there has always been a saying in the international jewelry industry that 'Western pearls are inferior to Western pearls, and Eastern pearls are inferior to Southern pearls'

Xuwen's largest scale cultivation of seawater pearls is in Xilian Town. The people of Xilian began cultivating pearls as early as the early 1960s and have a long history. The town has 9 village committees including Dajing, Beihai, Longyan, Daxianwan, and Long'er, with more than 20000 people engaged in the pearl cultivation industry, covering an area of over 20000 acres. The annual income from pearl cultivation alone reaches 300 million yuan, accounting for "half of the town's economy"

The pearls produced by Xuwen are large, round, and of first-class quality, especially the pearls produced in Dajing Village, Xuwen. Currently, there are 6800 acres of pearls in Dajing, with an annual production of nearly five tons of seawater pearls

The cultivation methods for Da Jing pearls only include sea release and high-level pond release. The so-called sea release refers to the method of piling and hanging oysters in the sea, while the so-called high-level pond release refers to building a pond on the beach and setting up buoys and hanging ropes in the pond to hang oysters, which is easier to manage than sea release

Xu Wen's seawater pearls are pearls produced from mother of pearl oysters. Due to the unique geographical environment of the Beibu Gulf, the South Pearl River has been nurtured to be round, delicate, and colorful

How did the history of Xu Wen's pearls come about

The earliest local pearl production in Zhanjiang was recorded in "Records of the Grand Historian: Biographies of Merchants and Colonizers". As early as the Han Dynasty in 111 BC, pearls were abundant from Xuwen County in Hepu Commandery to Hepu County near the Beibu Gulf. At that time, Xuwen County (covering the entire Leizhou Peninsula) and Hepu County belonged to Hepu Commandery, so the pearls produced by the two counties were collectively referred to as "Hepu Pearls". In the mid Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun wrote the book "Guangdong New Language", which recorded: "The name of Hepu Pearl is Rinan Pearl" and "Nanzhu ranges from Lei, Lian to Jiaozhi, with six ponds within a thousand miles" (meaning that the origin of Nanzhu is in the waters around the Beibu Gulf in Xuwen, Leizhou to Lianzhou, Hepu County, where there are six natural pearl ponds). Regarding the administrative center of ancient Hepu Commandery, according to the "Unified Annals of the Great Qing Dynasty", "Xuwen County was established in the Han Dynasty and became the administrative center of Hepu Commandery", and according to the Qing Daoguang edition of the "Lianzhou Prefecture Annals", "Hepu County was established in the Han Dynasty as the administrative center of Hepu Commandery and became the administrative center of Xuwen, and later in the Han Dynasty it became the administrative center of Hepu Commandery". Most of the historical experts engaged in research in this area also argue based on the historical materials in the "Unified Annals of the Qing Dynasty" that "the administrative center of Hepu County in the Western Han Dynasty was in Xuwen", and use the format of the "Annals of the Later Han Dynasty" to infer that since the "Book of Han" lists Xu Wen as the county head of Hepu County, Xu Wen is the county seat. According to the record in the "Geographical Records" of the Old Book of Tang, "In the first year of Emperor Wu of Han's Yuanfeng reign, he sent envoys from Xu Wen to the south to enter the sea and obtain the continent, which is a thousand miles east, west, south, and north, roughly equivalent to the two commanderies of Zhuya and Dan'er. It was learned that when Hepu Commandery was established in the Western Han Dynasty, the commandery was located in Xuwen County, and it was only moved to Hepu County during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Next is the establishment and naming of Zhuya Commandery, as noted by Ying Shao in the Book of Han: "Two commanderies are located in the sea, on the edge of the cliff. They produce genuine pearls, hence the name Zhuya." From this perspective, "Zhuya" originated from "the commandery is located on the edge of the cliff in the sea, producing pearls," hence the name "Zhuya." Zhuya was named after its precious product of pearls, and at that time, the county seat of Zhuya Commandery was also located in Xuwen County, which led to Hainan from afar. From the above, it is known that at least 2000 years ago, the local area of Leizhou Peninsula was already famous for producing sea pearls, and the local pearls of Leizhou Peninsula were important trade products as early as the ancient Maritime Silk Road

How to distinguish the authenticity of Xu Wen pearls

1. Pearls can be identified through intuitive methods. If the true color is not completely consistent, the false color is completely consistent. It can be identified through the bite method. When real pearls are bitten by teeth, white pearl powder will appear, while fake pearls will not. It can be distinguished through sensory methods that real tentacles are refreshing and cool, while fake tentacles are slippery<2. Pearls can be distinguished by friction method, they really have a frosted feel, while fake ones are very smooth. It can be distinguished through a magnifying glass that calcium crystals can indeed be seen, while fake ones appear in the shape of eggshells. It can be distinguished by the bouncing method that real pearls have elasticity and fake pearls have no elasticity. It can be distinguished by the hydrochloric acid method. It will bubble when it really comes into contact with hydrochloric acid, while it will not react when it is fake

3. Pearls can be identified by scraping with a knife. The real surface will scrape off powder, while the fake only has a smooth feel. It can be distinguished by combustion method, real combustion has no odor, while fake combustion has odor. It can be distinguished by ultraviolet irradiation method, which can produce light yellow or pale white fluorescence when real, and no fluorescence when fake