Taobao has a legendary store of dzi beads. Are all the beads sold in it real? I'm afraid of being cheated.

The real dzi beads can only be bought by hundreds of thousands, depending on fate.

Tianzhu English is gzi Beads, Tibetan is Zi Si, Chinese is Si or Se, and it is also called "Tianshi". In Tibetan-Chinese dictionaries, the explanation of dzi Zhu is: "agate, cat's eye, a kind of precious stone, commonly known as nine eyes." Medicine can cure cerebral hemorrhage. " The earliest dzi bead is the Xiangxiong dzi bead, which was born in the ancient Xiangxiong Kingdom and the most powerful ancient civilization across Central Asia and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the sacred object of Yongzhong Sect and the first of the seven treasures of Tibetans. "

Evolution of dzi beads

The earliest natural dzi beads were polished from conch fossils. Later, due to the scarcity of fossils, ancient Tibetans began to polish dzi beads with a sedimentary rock containing jade and agate. This sedimentary rock has a strong magnetic field and naturally forms regular patterns, mainly eyeballs, supplemented by triangles and quadrangles, which are said to ward off evil spirits.

After thinking about it, the finished product highlights the eye makeup pattern and is an invaluable Buddhist sacred object-dzi beads. Nowadays, with the rise of Tibetan Buddhism, people begin to process dzi beads in large quantities. Most artificial dzi beads are made by painting eyes with lead-containing pigments and then firing them at high temperature.