Snowflake silver is silver, but snowflake silver cup can have health care function. Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that silver has health-care functions such as calming the five internal organs, calming the heart and calming the nerves, stopping convulsions and eliminating pathogenic factors.

Modern medicine believes that silver can sterilize, diminish inflammation, detoxify, preserve health and prolong life. Long-term use of silver can accelerate metabolism and enhance resistance. It is ok to drink water with silver products, but silver cannot be directly ingested into the body and will be poisoned.

Silver has antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects. At present, more than half of the airlines in the world have used silver filters, and the water in swimming pools in many countries is also purified with silver. In Lijiang, if you visit Naxi people's house, you will find that the buttered tea presented to you is in a silver pot. The ancestors of Naxi people discovered a long time ago that fresh buttered tea in silver bowls would not go bad for a few days, thus gradually forming the Naxi people's dietary tradition and style.

Extended data:

Snowflake silver originated from the saying that "the Qing magistrate spent three years, and 100,000 snowflake silver" in the Song Dynasty. Later, it appeared frequently in past dynasties, but it was still just a folk name for silver. In the ancient history of China, the official name of silver was "Silver" or "Silver", and the unit of measurement was "Two". During the Qing Dynasty, the official took "tattooed silver" as the standard purity of silver coins, with a purity of 93.5374%, which is called "full-tattooed silver".

When Lijiang snowflake silver is smelted to high purity, the silver products are crystal clear as snowflakes, and the surface is like snowflakes. Because the selected original silver is bright in color, soft in texture, simple and flawless, and contains the aura of Yulong Snow Mountain. Lijiang Yulong Snow Mountain means silver stone, so it is called Lijiang Snowflake Silver.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Xueyin