Pearl: Symbol of success and nobility

Author: Guo Shouguo
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Pearls have a wide range of uses. As jewelry, their luster has shone for thousands of years on imperial crowns, noblewomen's decorations, and the thrones of Buddha statues. Now, with increasingly refined processing techniques, pearls can not only be made into standalone ornaments but also be matched with various gemstones and precious metals to create a variety of exquisite jewelry. Pearls have always accompanied the progress of human civilization, serving as witnesses to human culture and history. Pearls have long become an indispensable part of people's lives. The discovery and understanding of the formation reasons, composition structure, physicochemical properties, and quality of pearls, as well as the revelation and application of their identification, appreciation, selection, wearing, biological and medicinal uses, and processing techniques, are also important symbols of today's highly developed social civilization. The Pearl Research Project Group of the Gemstone Testing Center at Changshu University of Technology has conducted years of systematic research on pearl cultivation, processing, improvement, and biomedical applications, achieving some results. This book is a concentrated showcase of these research achievements.