Natural agate Rain Flower stone chinese Yuhua Stone red bubble look Yangtze River agate

Stone size: 

37 x 31 x 20 mm

1.45 x 1.22 x 0.78 inches

weight: 37 g / 0.08 pound

surface: natural, unpolished

 

Know more about rain flower sone:

Researched by mineralogist, rain flower stone was formed between 2.5 and 1.5 million years ago, the earth magma spray from the earth's crust, flow around, the solidification leaves holes, slowly separate the silica from it, gradually deposited to a mixture of quartz, chalcedony, and flint or opal, the color and pattern is the inclusions during this process.

 

Carefully appreciate rain flower stone, you can see mountains and clouds, figure the fairy, flower-and-bird insect fish, beautiful colors in it.

Through the ages, rain flower stone been loved by lots of people, especially the celebrity and literati and poet. Premier Zhou Enlai collected lots of rain flower stone, his rain flower collection been displayed at Former residence of Zhou Enlai of Nanjing city. Mei Lanfang, the Peking Opera master, collected rain flower stone as well. In The Seoul Olympic Games, Chinese athletes made yuhua stone a permanent symbol of China in Seoul.

 

As the rain flower stone been tumbled in river for very long time, and after extrusion and moving, the unpolished surface of the stone has nail line, and some small cracks, it will see when stone gets dry, but when we put the stone into water, we cannot see it.

 

The best way to appreciate rain flower stone is to put it into a white bowl and fill water inside, and display on the desk.