The symbol of eternal love—Beeswax

Beeswax is a liquid resin fossil with an amorphous body. Identified by physics, the proportion of the beeswax is between 1.05 to 1.10. Beeswax is slightly larger than water, can float on water, and it’s a precious ornament.

Since ancient times, beeswax has been loved by people around the world, whether by the royal family, or ordinary people love it. Beeswax is not only being used as ornament. Since it is considered to have mystical power, it’s preferred. Beeswax is an ornament of the royal family and the religious holy, so people believe that wearing beeswax will make them lucky and happy.

To this day, it’s set off a worldwide wave of beeswax collection, and prices are still rising. Beeswax has both charming and mystical powers, it’s the most beautiful and powerful jewelry. Although beeswax has long been discovered and used by humans, people know little about the formation of beeswax. Until now, after the development of chemistry, physics and geology, people opened beeswax’s veil with modern science.

Geological studies indicate that during the Eocene and Cretaceous periods, many pines and maples were growing in the world. These trees were full of liquid fat, in a geological time, and they secreted a lot of liquid fat that dropped to the ground because of the strong stimulation. With the geological changes, the liquid fat was buried underground, and then after years of formation pressure and heat, the liquid fat became the mine beeswax. Geological studies also indicate that beeswax was originally formed in the Cretaceous, and later formed in the Miocene. The beeswax formed in the Miocene is more soft, like Dominican beeswax. Later, reduction in the coniferous forest and petrochemical lack of time, there is less and less beeswax forming.

When beeswax was first formed, it experienced a variety of up and downs, like changes in the crust, sunshine and river erosion. Some forms of beeswax exist above ground while others are still buried underground. Beeswax in the formation process and later times was affected by organic matter, inoganic matter, and sunshine, so some changes have taken place. Although the matrix is still resin, the colour, proportion, hardness and melting point have changed. This phenomenon makes ancient people confused, but only modern chemistry and physics can unlock the secret.

Beeswax is amorphous, with no fixed internal atomic structure or external shape. After friction, beeswax will produce static, so papers, iron scraps and other small items can be adsorbed. Some parts of beeswax have static without friction. When you hold a piece of beeswax, you may feel that your hand is being sucked by it.

In China, throughout the ages, there are several names for beeswax, like Hupo, Mila, Yiyu, Jiangzhu, Dunmou, Yupei etc. These names were divided according to region and age. Today, however, beeswax and amber refer to different minerals. Beeswax formed between 20 million years to one hundred million years, but years of Baltic amber’s formation only four or five million years.

Natural beeswax has different shades of two colors, red and yellow. It’s not colorful.