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What does it mean if an old Tibetan man gives you something similar to Yuhuan (beeswax)

Strictly speaking, there is only one kind of beeswax, which comes from the Middle East and Myanmar. It's an old mine more than two thousand years ago. First, they were opened to Muslims as prayer beads and had 33 sons. Later, it was sold to Xinjiang by businessmen, imported from Xinjiang to the mainland, rolled into Tibet, and then became a rosary of Lamaism or an ornament for Tibetan women. There is only one kind of beeswax that we usually talk about in antiques and collectors' mouths.

There are two kinds on the market now.

One is the common Baltic amber, which is actually amber. There are many impurities, which are hyped as "transparent amber, opaque wax". It's true that the demand for beeswax is rising, so we have to include amber, an impurity in the Baltic Sea. In fact, they are two things, just like Russian jade and Hetian jade, which are completely different in essence, but have been mined by modern geology, so-called "nephrite". Jade is a cultural thing. There are standards in China tradition, but no one outside China plays with jade, so the standards outside China are not valid. So is beeswax. From the formation process, it is similar to amber, but its composition, minerals and age are very different. China's so-called beeswax was mineralized between 40 million years and 1 100 million years, while Poirot's amber was mineralized only four or five million years ago. Its structure is loose and easy to break, so it is impossible to play and work without heating.

There is also a so-called "noble beeswax", which is the colored beeswax sold in many shops on the Internet. You should be careful to be fooled by such things. Most of them are a mixture of plastics and pigments used by Taiwanese businessmen. There are also real things, which are from Africa and South America, not from the Middle East, but also new. Some people even use resin to make them instead of resin ore that has been used for thousands of years. There are no new mines in the Middle East. The real goods from the Middle East are antiques from 2000 years ago. Some old materials have done new work, but they are old in their bones. Jewelry means blessing. Even if you don't know the old man, you still feel that your heart is good, and he is worth giving you such a valuable thing. You should sincerely accept and thank him for his gift, so as to encourage yourself to do more good deeds.