The first time this type of jade appeared in Chinese history was during the Tang Dynasty.

According to records, after Master Tang Xuanzang returned from the Western Regions, he brought back a total of three Buddha treasures: one is the Buddhist scriptures brought back from India, the other is the relics pill of Sakyamuni, and the third is the sacred wood.

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.

And now, many people prefer to call it Shuhua Jade.

At present, this kind of thing is found in many places around the world, with XJ Province in China and Arizona in the United States, which are famous for their large reserves of petrified wood and good quality.

With the affluence of modern life and the increase in people's demand for various collections, Shuhua jade 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.

And there are many people in the United States who like this kind of thing and like to put an ornament at home.

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, carried shovels, and dug pits in the deep mountains and old forests as adults, looking for this kind of tree jade.

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 tree-shaped jade was not too popular, but the emperors of previous dynasties, high-ranking officials and nobles, still hoped to be able to put an ornament made of this tree-shaped jade in their own residences to 'town house'!

For example, it is recorded that Qianlong was in the Qixia Mountain Palace in Nanjing, and there was such a precious tree of jade to come to the town's house.

In recent years, many provinces and cities in China have also discovered this kind of tree jade, of course, once discovered, it must be immediately state-owned.

In fact, as far as the whole world is concerned, the number of existing tree jade 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 tree jade being brown, or green, and so on.

This kind of tree jade can be treated as garbage in the current market, with a 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 kind of dendriform jade agate jade.

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

There are a total of six tree jade trees erected here, as far as the ground is exposed, the high ones can be more than two meters, the short ones can also be more than one meter, and even the thickest one has a diameter of more than one meter, and there are even one or two branches on each tree jade, it really looks like a broken tree from a distance, and there are one or two meters of trunks and hideous rhizomes buried in the ground, and their total length, none of them is less than three meters, and the highest one even reaches five meters.

There is not a trace of impurities on the appearance of these six trees, as if it is natural, and when you step forward, you can even see the texture of the bark, the color is white, yellow and red, which looks crystal clear, and people can't take their eyes off it.

"This ...... Nature is really magical!" Lin Yi looked at the tree jade in front of him, and sighed in his mouth.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yi finally knew why those women liked this kind of shiny thing so much, originally there were few diamonds and jade, and they couldn't see any attraction, but this number of them suddenly attracted people's hearts.

Lin Yi studied each tree carefully for a while, and there was a look of fascination in his eyes.

When you take out the lighting equipment from the space, the whole space instantly brightens.

These tree-shaped jades glow softly in the light and are seductive.

These six pieces of tree jade, the quality is complete, you can feel the mellow jade quality when you reach out to the eye, the hand is warm and cool, and the feel is excellent.

Under the outer layer of crystal agate glassy quartz wrapping, you can clearly see the texture and material of the trees inside, and the most important thing is that there are a few branches on the tree, just like a jade tree, this kind of tree jade is very rare.

There are a large number of these tree jades, and they are in such good condition, it is estimated that they are enough for him to open a petrified wood museum, and when the time comes, I don't know how many people will be amazed when they are put there.

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 Shuhua jade in good condition, it will not be the turn of any auction company to come forward, and it will not fall into the hands of ordinary people, either collected by museums or directly bought by those rich people.