Want to know how much a gold brick weighs?

A piece of golden brick about 1000g.

Golden bricks, also known as the imperial kiln gold bricks, is a traditional Chinese kiln brick firing industry treasures, the ancient for the use of the palace and other important buildings of a high-quality paving tiles. Because of its texture is firm and fine, knocking as if the metal like clanging sound, so the name of the gold brick.

The use of gold bricks to describe someone indicates that the person is very rich. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties were favored by the emperors, became the special product of the palace building.

Golden bricks laying method:

When laying the gold bricks, the first must be cut and ground according to the size of the processing, so that the plastered ground tightly. Then after plowing, paving mud, bullet line, test paving and other procedures to brick paving and scraping.

Finally, the plastered bricks are dipped in raw tung oil before completion. Each tiler and two strong laborers can only plaster five gold bricks per day.