2012年1月19日星期四

Guangzhou

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Canton redirects here. For other places with the same name, see Canton (disambiguation)
The new Guangzhou skyline with the Canton Tower and Zhujiang New Town.
The new Guangzhou skyline with the Canton Tower and Zhujiang New Town.
Guangzhou (广州 Guǎngzhōu or just simply GZ) is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 12.7 million, making it the third largest city in China after Shanghai and Beijing. If you consider the Pearl River Delta as a triangle (it isn't exactly), Guangzhou is the inland corner and Hong Kong and Macau the two on the sea.
In the era of tea clippers, Guangzhou was known in the West as "Canton." The food and the language of the area are still known as "Cantonese" and it is perfectly acceptable to use either the western or Chinese term interchangeably. The Cantonese are proud and hardworking people known throughout China and the world over for their famous cuisine and tack for business. One thing you will notice in Downtown Guangzhou is that there is none of the horn honking that is typical in other Chinese cities. Apparently there is a local ordinance prohibiting it. Guangzhou drivers seem to follow the rules of the road a bit more than in other cities where it is generally a free-for-all.
The city is famous for foreign trade and business doings, and holds China's largest trade fair, the Canton Fair. However, in between the seemingly endless skyscrapers, shopping malls and building sites there is a lot of culture and history. While Guangzhou is not usually high on the list of Asian tourist destinations, it is amazing how much the city actually has to offer.

2012年1月6日星期五

Turquoise processing

Turquoise's technology requirements, mainly in color, texture, degree of impurities and block size as the standard. Hard, the color blue porcelain loose, such as those who block the larger the premium materials, the pieces of a material; medium hardness, color from blue to green beans, such as turquoise and textured appearance of the wire were loose, large as a material, in small pieces for the two materials; other material that can be used for the three materials; most times those for the "face" loose, only large or treated prior to use.
Mainly for the production of high-quality turquoise ring arc-shaped face, pectoral, earrings and so on. Quality in general who are used to make various styles of necklaces, bracelets, clothing and so on. Degree blocks were used for carving crafts, and more good and beauty of the performance of content, such as statues, fairy, crane, fairy, landscape pavilions, insects, fish, animals and other figures. Hubei Hall Great Hall of the "Li herbs" statue, carved turquoise is made. Turquoise jade crafts export of China's unique style of varieties of jade, one of the prestigious and international market factors. Turquoise is often embedded in gold filled, silver, bronze, and embraced its color, beautiful and full of national characteristics. Tibetan and Mongolian compatriots particularly fond of the sword inlaid with turquoise, accessories and other handicrafts. In addition, debris can be used for turquoise paint. Tibetan turquoise will also be used as drugs.
Turquoise purchase evaluation
Turquoise evaluation and purchase is based on color, texture and fragmentation. Divided by the color of its varieties: blue turquoise, light blue turquoise, blue and green turquoise, green turquoise, bubble material. Blue, dark blue opaque or slightly transparent, the glass surface a sense of uniform color, luster, no brown wire were the best quality. Turquoise by texture is divided into: transparent turquoise, massive turquoise, blue onyx, turquoise, turquoise wire, magnetic turquoise, turquoise spots. Transparent turquoise is extremely rare, high-value. Magnetic loose Shiguang Liang such as ceramics, upscale. The international community will be turquoise stones are divided into four grades: Grade One (Persian grade), two products (American class), three items (Egypt grade), four goods (Afghanistan level). A product for the best quality turquoise. Turquoise maintenance. Wear turquoise jewelry, the best and cosmetics, perfume and other items to keep distance to avoid damage to the gemstone jewelry. Because of turquoise porous, pay attention to avoid identification with the heavy liquid density measurement, because bromoform, diiodomethane will turquoise color. Delicate turquoise color, fear of contamination, should avoid tea, soap, oil, rust and alcohol exposure, to prevent infiltration along the porous gem color. Turquoise afraid of heat, and sunlight can not directly roasted in order to avoid fading, burst, dry. Turquoise small hardness, brittle, ring and other hard objects knocking, attention should also be worn.

2012年1月3日星期二



Turquoise is usually according to origin, color, luster, texture, structure and construction of its classification, and many classified and more or less extended to the quality and grade of turquoise, and thus with the level of significance.
By color
A, Blue Turquoise (Blue turquoise): blue, opaque block, sometimes dark blue;
B, light blue turquoise (Pala blue turquoise): light blue, opaque block;
C, blue-green turquoise (Blue-green turquoise): blue-green, opaque block;
D, green turquoise (Green turquoise): green, opaque block;
E, yellow-green turquoise (Yellow-green turquoise): yellow-green, opaque block;
F, light green turquoise (Greenish turquoise): light green, opaque block.

According to the structure, construction, gloss and texture points

A, transparent turquoise: refers to the transparent turquoise crystals. Extremely rare, only produced with the United States, Virginia, after pondering the weight of the transparent stones less than 1 kt;
B, Block turquoise: refers to the compact block of turquoise, their beautiful color, texture, delicate, tough and smooth, the main material for the jade, very common;
C, tuberculosis-like turquoise: refers to the spherical, ellipsoid, grape-shaped, pillow-shaped turquoise and other forms of TB size and the poor;
D, blue onyx, turquoise: also known as "lace turquoise" refers to the presence of iron due to the formation of a spider web-like pattern of turquoise;
E, wire turquoise: refers to the iron surface with a thin black line of turquoise flower;
F, porcelain turquoise: refers to the sky-blue, dense texture and tough, such as broken porcelain fracture after fracture, abnormal bright turquoise, of good quality;
G, turquoise vein: that was a vein, occur in the rock fracture zones in turquoise;
H, mottled like turquoise: means for containing kaolinite and limonite and other substances present in spots, star point-like structure of turquoise, of poor quality;
I, the surface loose: that the texture will not be strong turquoise, grainy fracture, hardness is small, can be carved with a nail. Some blocks of material available;
J, soaked pine: refers to the loose surface softer than turquoise, for inferior goods, can not be used jade material. But now the turquoise artificially colored, plastic injection processing, optimization has become a turquoise varieties.

Divided by origin
A, Hubei turquoise: from China's northwest Hubei turquoise, called "Jingzhou stone" or "tal Xiangyang, Hubei turquoise yield, quality, reputation abroad, mainly in the northwest of Hubei Yun County, Takeyama, Yun West and other places, mine is located in the western end of the Wudang Mountains, the south part of the Han River area.
B, Nisa Poole turquoise: produced in the mountains of northern Iran 阿里米塞尔 Nisa Poole area. China's ancient "back and forth tal", Japan and other countries called "Oriental turquoise."
C, Sinai turquoise: in the Sinai Peninsula, is the world's oldest turquoise mines.
D, American turquoise: produced in the U.S. Southwest states, especially Arizona, the most abundant. Egyptian by origin points have turquoise, turquoise, Chile, Australia, turquoise, and so on. However, the name of some place of origin, not only on behalf of origin, but also on behalf of the quality and grade turquoise and instructions, so the quality level of these names have meaning.