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In fact, wood fossils can be divided into many types, and in our daily life, the most representative wood fossils are the coal that we can often use!

As long as people with basic education know the origin of coal, this thing is tens of millions of years ago, when the earth's crust moved violently, resulting in a large number of giant trees, buried in the ground, through high temperature, high pressure and the formation of wood fossils.

However, because this kind of thing is widespread and of low value, in the eyes of many researchers, this thing cannot be regarded as a real fossilized wood, after all, these coals have lost the characteristics of the original wood due to the change of crustal movement.

But petrified wood is different, the source of this petrified wood, like coal, is also millions of years ago, because of the violent movement of the earth's crust, and then caused giant trees to be buried in the ground.

It's just that they didn't turn into black coal under the high temperature and pressure of the earth's crust like their cousins.

The main reason is that the geographical location where they are buried is more comfortable than that of their cousins, and when the big trees that have become coal are buried, because the surrounding area is dry and there is no river to pass by, they can only be turned into coal.

And these petrified woods, when they were buried, were buried directly to the bottom of the river because of the violent crustal movement of the river because of the violent crustal movement near them.

Another important factor that contributed to their current appearance was that most of the rivers they were buried with were alkalized water, which contained a lot of silica.

And when they are buried together into the ground. When changes occur through the high-temperature and high-pressure movement of the earth's crust. Those silica in those waters. It will penetrate into the body of the tree and replace the wood fiber cells of the wood itself, thus turning the original plant characteristics of the wood into petrified wood with stone and even glass luster.

These fossilized wood have very strong wood properties, such as the wood structure and texture of the tree, but at the same time have the opaque or slightly transparent properties of gemstones.

Such petrified wood. In later Chinese history, there was a special title, that is, jade in the wood!

The first time this kind of jade in wood appeared in Chinese historical records was in the Tang Dynasty.

There is such a record in the predecessor of Brother Monkey's story, "The Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", and the specific meaning of the translation is like this.

After Master Tang Xuanzang returned from the Western Regions, he brought back a total of three Buddha treasures: one was the Buddhist scriptures brought back from India, the other was the relics pill of Shakyamuni, and the third was the sacred tree.

And this so-called sacred wood is actually the petrified wood we know now, which is also the so-called jade in the wood.

Because of the great success of Tang Xuanzang's expedition to the Western Regions, Buddhism began to flourish in the Tang Dynasty. And this so-called sacred tree also began to flourish in the Tang Dynasty.

Zen Buddhism believes that "all things are destroyed, and only stones are passed down". Wood into a stubborn stone is the creation of God, so the sacred wood is also called Zen stone, at that time the Buddhist Hui people of the Western Regions continued to pay tribute to Chang'an, Chang'an City Great Temples are glorified to have a piece of sacred wood.

Therefore, the name of Mu Zhongyu was actually called out in that era and became famous.

It was only after the decline of the Tang Dynasty that the central court lost control of the countries of the Western Regions, and the amount of this kind of jade imported into the Central Plains was greatly reduced, which also led to the gradual loss of jade culture in Chinese civilization.

Later, even after the Qing Dynasty regained control of the Western Regions, this kind of wood jade was also popular because of the popularity of Hetian white jade.

At present, petrified wood has been found in many places around the world, and in China alone, dozens of provinces and cities such as border provinces have been found.

However, the petrified wood in one of the provinces is the most famous, with the largest reserves and the best quality, and in terms of the world, that is, the border provinces of China and Arizona in the United States, are famous for their large reserves and good quality of petrified wood.

With the affluence of modern life and the increase in people's demand for various collections, petrified wood has long been out of the category of wood fossils.

Unanimously certified by authoritative organizations around the world, this thing has been classified as a natural and organic gemstone.

As the international collector's market has heated up in recent years, the price of this natural organic gemstone has also risen.

As far as Jin Muchen knows, there are many rich people in the United States who like to collect this thing at home.

And the reason why those American bigwigs get some of these things at home to make ornaments or furniture, it is thanks to the 'International Wang Lin', big @Lai La@Ma!

Because of some special political factors, this old guy has a very high status in the Western world, and there are many celebrity politicians, all of whom are good friends of this old guy, and many people believe in him, and they are even stunned by him.

And in their sect, the so-called masters have a lot of Dharma weapons, all kinds of Buddha beads, dzi and the like, some of these things are made of the relics of high monks, some are made of animal bones, and some are made of this kind of petrified wood.

Therefore, under the preaching of this old fellow, this thing also has spirituality, and according to him, the furniture or ornaments made of this thing are placed in the living room, and the benefits to people are great.

It is precisely because of his rhetoric that this kind of furniture made of petrified wood, or small handicrafts, has become a very popular thing in the high-end furniture or cultural entertainment market in the United States.

A few years ago, because of the popularity of this thing, it caused a wave similar to the 'gold rush' in Arizona.

Many ordinary people drove cars and shovels to dig pits in the deep mountains and old forests to find this kind of petrified wood.

It is said that if you can find a good quality, you can buy 300 dollars per catty, and it is this kind of windfall profit that attracts many people to go crazy into the mountains to mine.

So much so that Arizona had to enact a law specifically prohibiting the poaching of this valuable natural resource.

And in China, the situation is not so much better!

Although after the Tang Dynasty, this jade in wood was not too popular, but the emperors of all dynasties still hoped to be able to put an ornament made of this jade in wood in their palace to 'town house'!

For example, it is recorded that Qianlong's Qixia Mountain Palace in Nanjing has such a precious petrified wood to come to the town's house......

In recent years, many provinces and cities in China have also successively discovered this kind of petrified wood, of course, once discovered, it must be immediately state-owned, good quality in the end directly to the center, the quality of the average is mostly left in the local area, it is said that many local governments, are planning to use these ancient fossils found to build the so-called petrified wood park, but the specific completion of the year of the monkey does not know until the month of the monkey.

Of course, if there is any 'damage' or 'loss' of those petrified wood before it is built, it is normal......

In fact, as far as the whole world is concerned, the number of existing petrified wood is not small, but a large part of it is the kind that is not in good condition.

The so-called poor condition refers to the occurrence of fractures, fragmentation, etc., when the earth's crust moves, resulting in incomplete condition.

Or when the underground is infiltrated by high pressure, other metal elements, such as iron, copper, etc., also penetrate into the wood, resulting in the final color of the petrified wood being brown, green, and so on.

Such petrified wood can be treated as garbage in the current market, with large stock and poor quality, so it is worthless.

The real high-end ones are white, gray, red and yellow, white and gray, because of the high purity of the penetrating minerals, so beautiful.

The red color is because of the presence of high-purity iron in the permeation process, so it will become red, and the red color is very festive, so it is also popular with people.

As for the yellow color, because the petrified wood is a pine and cypress and other oily trees, so when silica penetrates, the petrified wood produced will have the nature of pale yellow amber, so it is definitely the most beautiful of these petrified woods, and of course it is the most popular one.

Even in the market, many people call this petrified wood agate jade.

Among the many types of petrified wood, the most popular are white and yellow, then red, and finally gray.

And now the large piece of petrified wood in front of Jin Muchen happens to be the most beautiful pale yellow agate-like petrified wood, the whole piece of wood, the quality is complete, and you can feel the mellow jade quality when you reach out to your eyes, it is warm and cool in the hand, and it feels very good.

Wrapped in the outer layer of crystal agate glassy quartz, you can clearly see the texture and material of the trees inside, and the most important thing is that the fracture surface on the root of the big tree is flat, as if it was cut by a chainsaw, which is simply a natural large round dining table.

Jin Muchen roughly estimated, just the diameter of this 'table', I'm afraid it must be five or six meters, the desktop is intact, there are no cracks and cracks, the condition is extremely perfect, and there is no need to even process, as long as you take it home, you can directly put it in the restaurant for that kind of use!

Such a large piece of petrified wood, and it is in such good condition, just such a piece is estimated to be enough for him to open a petrified wood museum.

This thing cannot be valued at all now, because so far there is no hierarchy of professional valuation of this treasure in the world, because there are too few good things in this thing.

Almost every time it is discovered, it is controlled by the state collection, even in the United States.

As long as there is a high-end petrified wood with good quality, it will not be the turn of any auction company to come forward, and it is impossible to fall into the hands of ordinary people, either collected by museums or directly bought by those rich guys.

And now that he was in front of him, he actually appeared on such a big stake, and Jin Muchen felt that his brain was about to explode. (To be continued......)