The original purpose of walnut players is fitness. Modern science has proved that kneading walnuts can delay the aging of the body and play a great role in preventing cardiovascular diseases and avoiding strokes. Especially for some people who have been working at their desks for a long time, playing walnuts can relax muscles and promote blood circulation and prevent occupational diseases. In addition, through playing, a pair of ordinary walnuts become crystal clear with the passage of time and become a good work of art.
Walnuts are mostly taken from wild pecans. In recent years, with the increasing number of people collecting walnuts, some artificially grafted pecans have appeared in the market, but their texture and appearance are relatively poor. Juglans mandshurica has different origins and species, which can be roughly divided into three categories: Juglans mandshurica, Juglans mandshurica and Juglans mandshurica. Walnuts include lion's head, tiger's head, arhat's head, chicken's heart, prince's hat and official hat. Walnut is a high-grade variety of playing walnut, and the current general market price is between 100 yuan and 4000 yuan. Juglans mandshurica is more popular. Although the price is cheap, there are some good varieties, such as lanterns, peach hearts and jujube stones, which are worthy of attention. Iron walnut has a heavy handle and shallow grain, but some special-shaped walnuts with great collection value are mostly from iron walnut, such as three-edged, four-edged, eagle's mouth, three-petal, snakeskin grain, iron ingot, tripe and Tieguanyin.
Playing walnuts pays attention to four words "quality, shape, color and beauty". Good quality walnuts are delicate and hard, and the new walnuts sound strong and feel heavy when they collide. Old walnuts are as smooth as suet jade and collide like stones. "Shape" refers to the lines that match walnuts. The closer two walnuts are, the more precious they are. The density and distribution of lines, the width and thickness of edges are important factors to measure playing with walnuts. "Color" refers to the different colors of walnuts in different periods, and the old walnuts will show a transparent color similar to ruby.
It should be noted that there are some colored walnuts on the market at present, but they have not been played for a long time and need to be carefully identified. A simple way is to rub it hard with your fingers. Old walnuts will have bright spots, but new walnuts will have no bright spots when colored. This is what collectors say about the popularity of walnuts. "Ge" refers to the size of a walnut. Generally speaking, the bigger the walnut with good appearance, the more valuable it is, but the special-shaped walnut is the most exquisite in pairs. There are no identical walnuts in the world, just as there are no identical eggs in the world. Often a train of walnuts can't pick out a pair of identical walnuts. Pairing requires great patience and opportunity, so a pair of paired special-shaped walnuts is often valuable. I once met a player who had a pair of alien peanuts and walnuts in his hand, almost all of which were cloned in shape, grain and size. He plays with it every day and can't put it down. He boasted that if someone offered 65,438+million, he wouldn't sell it. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is not surprising that really rich players will pay a high price for a rare treasure.