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Cinnabar is a reddish brown and colorful colored stone, and its main chemical component is mercury sulfide. The ancestors of Gelao nationality in Guizhou discovered cinnabar first, and then it appeared in the center.
The royal family of Shang Tang sacrificed cinnabar to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings. Since Qin Shihuang unified China, he has been addicted to immortality, and cinnabar, as the main raw material of an alchemist, is worth a hundred times in an instant.
Is cinnabar good or bad for human body? Cinnabar does have medicinal value, to be exact, it is a blindly toxic Chinese medicine. Its taste is sweet and its nature is cold; Toxic. The heart channel has that effect of tranquilizing mind, clear away heat and toxic materials, clearing liver-fire and improve eyesight, and can be used for treating palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, epilepsy, convulsion, etc.
There is cinnabar in Angong Niuhuang Pill, which is a traditional Chinese medicine for treating common cold. Other Chinese patent medicines, such as Tianwang Buxin Pill, Suhexiang Pill and Renshen Zaizao Pill, all contain cinnabar. After taking cinnabar, it is hydrolyzed into divalent mercury ions, which are absorbed by the human body and quickly spread to various organs and tissues, and enter the brain tissue through the blood-brain barrier to play a pharmacological role.
However, excessive use will produce various poisoning symptoms, such as oliguria and proteinuria in the urinary system, and in severe cases, it can cause acute renal failure. So these Chinese patent medicines can't be eaten together. If eaten together, it is easy to be poisoned by the superposition of toxic ingredients.
The raw materials of an alchemist are not only cinnabar, but also mercury and realgar. Therefore, no one can live forever after eating the elixir. From emperors and dignitaries to ordinary people, countless people died of poisoning.
Six emperors were poisoned by elixir in the Tang Dynasty alone. Li Bai, a poet, once took Du Fu everywhere to seek immortality and alchemy, which was completely a group drug abuse.
In A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Jing, the great grandfather of Ning Guofu, suddenly died in the Taoist temple, and the elixir was poisoned. Black powder appeared in the Red Chamber when everyone was in the funeral.
Cinnabar is not only the main raw material for making elixir, but also can be used to make mercury, which can actually be made into the only liquid metal-mercury.
The ancient book Materia Medica records the method of making mercury: if mercury comes from cinnabar, it is coarse cinnabar, sand is placed in the furnace, followed by water, covered with horn, smoke flies on the floor, mercury slides down, and the color is small and white.
Those who have verified this wonderful scene have another illusion (as it turns out, the illusion without scientific basis is quite scary), and they firmly believe that mercury is something that can make them live forever. So, Mercury is very busy. In addition to participating in alchemy, it was also injected into the coffins of some high-ranking people to preserve the bodies.
Baqing, the first female entrepreneur in the world and the richest woman in China, provided100t of mercury for the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, forming a magnificent landscape of rivers in the mausoleum. There is no doubt that this Pakistani widow was the owner of the largest chemical plant at that time, and her capacity was leveraged.
Related to cinnabar, in ancient literary works, palace sand is more used to judge whether a woman is "loyal". Legend has it that the "palace guards" who feed cinnabar (that is, geckos) will never fall off after being smashed on women's limbs, but will automatically fall off during sexual intercourse.
In that feudal society, women were regarded as men's accessories and private property, which was extremely lack of scientific basis and was also talked about by literati.
Cinnabar can be used as a pigment. Neolithic ancestors used cinnabar as a pigment, but in Shang Dynasty. "Painting Zhu Jiagu" refers to grinding cinnabar into red powder and embedding it in the notch of Oracle Bone Inscriptions to show eye-catching.
Among a large number of painted printed silk fabrics unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, many patterns are painted with vermilion. Although they have been buried underground for more than 2000 years, their colors are still very bright.
As early as the Western Wei Dynasty in China, it was stipulated in the official document circulation of the imperial court that all kinds of official documents submitted by ministers to the imperial court should be written in black ink, and the official document reply of the imperial court (the emperor's imperial pen or the opinion of Shangshu Province) should be signed with a red vermilion pen, meaning "Zhu Chu, Mo Jin". So the emperor's comment is called Zhu Pi.
In the mind of the emperor, he represents the country, blesses the imperial power and rules the world.
Taoist warlock cinnabar mounted yellow paper, transliteration "killing life", painted symbols to ward off evil spirits. Cinnabar bracelets are often made into beads and rosaries, which can make people calm down and concentrate their thoughts better when holding Buddha and chanting.
Cinnabar is called "soft ruby". Wearing jewelry made of cinnabar can soothe the nerves and ward off evil spirits. It is a good choice to wear cinnabar for children who are weak or prone to crying at night, and the wearer will get lucky care. Moreover, it is different from other ornaments. Cinnabar is warm as spring in your hand and has its own magnetic field, which is very suitable for people with cold hands and feet.
Cinnabar, a red stone, accompanied our nation through the vast smoke and dust, and still exudes unique charm today. From the whole process of human using it, from delusion to science, from fanaticism to rationality, rational application of it gives it unique significance and also gives life beauty and health.
Reference article:
1, Gelao nationality: the first nationality to obtain alchemy of cinnabar.
2. Why did the ancient emperors like to use cinnabar when reviewing the throne?