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How to play with the olive stone on the shark's back

After getting the olive pit on the shark's back, it is best to oil it for the last time, drop a drop of oil on the palm of your hand, rub it evenly with your hands and apply it evenly on the shark's back. Then put on gloves and play with shark's back.

Olive nucleus is the nucleus of olive, an olive plant. This plant is shaped like "olive" strips. The stone is spindle-shaped, with blunt tips at both ends, reddish brown and six ridges on it. It is hard but not fragile.

Cut the olive nucleus, there are three chambers, each chamber contains 1 seed. Seeds slender and spindle-shaped. The seed coat is brownish red, and the inside is white kernel, which is oily enough. Tasteless. Location: Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi. Olive nucleus is divided into yellow nucleus, fat nucleus and iron nucleus.

work of art

Nuclear ship: It is a folk handicraft, specially carved with olivine into painted boats and boats. It originated in ancient times and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, indicating the superb realm of ancient crafts and the wisdom of the working people in ancient China. It is a kind of micro-carving in nuclear carving technology.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a man with special skills named Wang Shuyuan. He can carve wood with a diameter of one inch into palaces, vessels, figures, even birds, animals, trees and stones, which can be carved into the shapes of various things according to the original appearance of wood, each with its own form.

Wang Shuyuan is an artist who carves nuclear-powered ships. The nuclear ship Su Shi's Journey to the Red Cliff, which he carved, was later written by essayist Wei Xueyi as The Story of the Nuclear Ship, which vividly described this exquisite micro-carving handicraft.