Are there any stories about rubies?

In the world of rubies, "pigeon blood red" is like a bright business card, symbolizing the highest quality of rubies. At first, the word "pigeon blood red" was the best color used by Burmese to describe Burmese rubies. The term may have originated in China or Arabia.

The ruby with the highest auction price so far-"Sunrise Ruby" (picture from the Internet)

Historically, rubies were first discovered in ancient pasturages in Myanmar. Ruby of ancient animal husbandry is produced in marble. After millions of years of wind and rain baptism, the ruby peeled off from the mother rock and was transported from the mountain to the bottom of the valley. The exact date of the first discovery of ruby in Gumu is unknown, but it can be inferred that it should be discovered in rivers and streams by the first people who settled in this area.

Ruby mining in the early period of ancient animal husbandry (picture from the Internet)

There are countless legends about the origin of ruby. It is said that before the Buddha set foot on the earth, only wild animals and raptors lived in northern Myanmar. One day, the largest and oldest eagle since creation flew over a valley and found a red meat ball on the hillside of the valley. The eagle tried to pick it up, but its claws could not penetrate the blood-red substance. After many attempts, the eagle finally understood that it was not a piece of meat, but a sacred stone condensed by the fire and blood of the earth itself. This stone is the first ruby on the earth, and this valley is the ancient shepherd.

The last king of Burma? The King of Tiba and his wife and their rubies and sapphires (pictures from the Internet).

This story also has an interesting and magical ending, this magical valley with rubies. Because the ground is covered with poisonous snakes, human beings can only flinch. In order to get the gem, people thought of a way, that is, to eject the meat into the valley, and the ruby would stick to the meat. When the flying raptors see these pieces of meat, they will catch them and transport them out of the valley. After the birds satisfied their appetite, the clever man climbed into their nest and took out the ruby.

In the long history of mankind, people's understanding of nature and science is constantly changing, but what remains unchanged is the recognition of the value of rubies. Accompanied by magical legends, those tragic stories that happened in order to compete for benefits are also lamentable, the most noteworthy of which is the story about "tooth hair" ruby.

The king of Myanmar showed the "Nga Mauk" ruby to the French envoy? Bill Larson

During the reign of the Burmese monarch, it was stipulated that big gems should be given to the king after mining. Nga Mauk, a poor miner, found a high-quality ruby. He noticed a crack in the original stone. In order to avoid handing it all over, the miners split the original stone in two along this crack, one part was given to the king and the other part was sold. Unfortunately, the king learned of his fraud, and in order to warn others, the king ordered all the residents of the village to be burned alive. Legend has it that Nga Mauk's wife survived this life-and-death disaster by chopping wood on the mountain, but she was heartbroken because she witnessed the tragic situation of her family being burned and killed, and soon died of heartbreak.

It is said that Nagamo's wife stood here and saw the village burned down in Nanjitao, an ancient pastoral road in Myanmar. The picture was taken by Andy Lucas, and the copyright belongs to the Gemological Institute of the Guild.

The half of the ruby that was sold at that time was later turned around and returned to Myanmar. Later, these two gems were cut in Mandalay, one was cut into a 98-carat ruby and the other was cut into a 74-carat ruby. Unfortunately, when Britain annexed Myanmar in 1885, these two peerless treasures disappeared.