Which city’s tourist souvenir is the Yuhua Stone?

The Yuhua Stone is a unique tourist souvenir of Nanjing.

Yuhua stone is a kind of natural agate stone, also called aragonite, ornamental stone and lucky stone. It is mainly produced in Liuhe District of Nanjing City and Yuetang area of ??Yizheng City.

Rainflower stone is a precious gemstone formed by mixing quartz, chalcedony and flint or opal. It is also called rainflower agate. According to legend, in the Liang Dynasty 1,400 years ago, Master Yunguang was preaching in the southern suburbs of Nanjing. He moved the heavens and caused flowers to fall like rain. The rain of flowers fell to the ground and turned into stones, so it was called Yuhua Stone. The lecture hall was renamed Yuhuatai. The idiom "the sky is full of flowers and flowers are falling" comes from this legend.

The main component of Yuhua Stone is silica, of which the red components are iron ions and ferrous ions. Yuhua stones are pebbles made of agate, opal, chalcedony, quartz, etc. They are found in the sediments of river beds and river terraces. The most famous of them is the Yuhua stone produced in Hengliang Town, Liuhe, Nanjing (the hometown of Yuhua stones). Yuhua Stone is divided into two types: fine stone and rough stone. The fine stone is mainly agate, which is fine in quality, bright in color, highly rounded, and crystal clear; the coarse stone is coarser in texture, mainly quartz or metamorphic rock, and has lower value. . Various landscapes, figures, birds, beasts, trees and other scenes can often be seen in the beautiful Yuhua Stone, which makes people daydream and think deeply into the stone. It is very beautiful.