The price of Dzi beads ranges from tens of yuan to millions of yuan depending on the quality. The price of a string of nine-eye Dzi beads in the home of the famous Chinese movie star Jet Li is as high as hundreds of millions of yuan. Poverty really limits our imagination. A string of Dzi beads is enough for an ordinary person to have food and drink for several lifetimes. Of course, this kind of Dzi beads can no longer just be Measured from a commodity perspective, it has been endowed with humanistic value and historical significance, and its commodity attributes have been weakened, and Jet Li will not sell his own Nine-Eyed Dzi Bead.
The earliest natural Dzi beads were polished from conch fossils. Later, due to the scarcity of fossils, ancient Tibetans began to use a sedimentary rock containing jade and agate to polish Dzi beads, forming naturally regular patterns. , mainly eyeballs, supplemented by triangles, quadrilaterals, etc., which are said to ward off evil spirits. The polished finished product highlights the eye makeup pattern and is the priceless Buddhist holy object - Dzi beads. Most artificial Dzi beads are painted with lead-containing paint and then fired at high temperatures. --Quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia
Dzi beads have become a unique culture in Tibet. If you travel to Tibet, you can see Dzi beads being sold in the streets and alleys. This is the paradise of Dzi beads market. Dzi beads themselves are not of high value. They are just endowed with cultural color, thus deriving a unique culture. Dzi beads The cultural value behind it is greater than the commercial value. Many treatises on Dzi beads by domestic and foreign experts and scholars have increased the mystery of Dzi beads.
Nowadays, many movie stars like to wear Dzi beads, which indeed have a mysterious color. This is a cultural symbol, and the price of Dzi beads is still on the rise. The surface of Dzi beads that are often worn naturally has a shiny, waxy moist feeling.