Mother of chicken blood stone

There is s a huge chicken blood stone on display in Huayjou, some 2 hours drive from Beijing. This stone weighs almost 2 tonnes. The largest of its kind on display, the Guinness's record testified its enormous size. As the price of the chicken blood stone has escalated steeply over the last decades, who knows how much is this huge piece of chicken blood stone worth.

Guinness's world record

Traces of chicken blood on the stone

This huge precious bolder being transported from a mountain

It took workers one month to move the stone from the mountain site to the plain below. The owner did not want to cut up the stone as it is not easy to obtain a stone of this size.

High quality stone is made into seals selling for over millions of RMB

Proud owner of this huge precious rock

Do you know how was this stone being mined from the mountain of Changhua, its birth place, in ancient time some 300 years ago?

First they burned the site containing this precious stone with intense fire. Then, they poured water over it for rapidly cooling. The sudden contraction caused the boulder to dislodge from the mountain side where the stone was attached to. The miner then retrieved the chicken blood stone.

Fire heated up the base of the stone

Water cooling the hot stone

Chicken blood stone uncovered

There have been a lot of fake stones in the market. Some are just made from plastics while others have a coating of real stone on ordinary stones.

 

The photo above shows 3 chicken blood stones. Only one is genuine. Do you know which one is real? Experts say you need to feel the stones, real stones have a cold feeling while plastic materials feel warn on your hand. The other way is to use a lighter to burn the stones, plastic ones will give off toxic fume. For the fake with a top coat of genuine stone, check for evidence of joints and the flow of the texture on all its sides. The one on the centre of the photo is a genuine chicken blood stone. The one on the right is made of polymeric material while the one on the left is a stone coated with a layer of genuine stone.

This stones put together reveal a character

This Chinese character Gong means a lot to the Chinese people. It can mean an elderly figure, justice, of public, and many other meanings.

The logo of the Beijing Olympic Games

In the recent Olympic Games held in Beijing, the official logo was carved in this seal stone.