Whoever gets the top grade of cinnabar gets more than ten feet of cave soil. When you first see its seedlings, it looks like a white stone, which is called vermilion bed. The sand beside the bed is as big as a chicken. Secondly, sand is not used as medicine, but only for studying painting and smelting mercury. Its seedlings don't need white stone, and its depth is tens of feet. The outer bed is either mixed with greenish yellow stone or sandy soil, which is full of pregnancy, so the outer sand and gravel are mostly self-cracked. This kind of sand is most abundant in Guizhou, such as Si, Yin and Tongren (5), but it is also widely distributed in Shangzhou and (6).
Where the secondary sand is taken, the pit is white and tender, and mercury is added without grinding ink. If the sand is tender and bright, when it is taken, put it into a giant iron grinding cylinder, grind it into powder, then put it into the cylinder, and then inject clean water to soak it. After three days and three nights, the man who fell and floated fell into another jar called Jules. If it is heavy, it will be dry, and it will be famous.
Where mercury is added, either white secondary sand or two pieces of floating ink and water are rolled into a big wire. Every 30 kilograms of mercury is added to a kettle, and 30 kilograms of carbon is also used below. Where mercury rises, cover a kettle, leave a small hole in the kettle, and fix the salt mud next to the kettle. The kettle is made of iron with a curved bow tube, tightly wrapped with hemp rope and coated with salt mud. When the fire is burning, insert one end of the meander into the pot for ventilation (it is a little solid), and put two bottles of water in the middle pot at the other end, and slide the tail in to let the gas in the pot touch the water in the pot. * * * Calcined for five hours, in which the sand powder is completely converted into mercury and distributed in a full pot. Frozen for a day, take it out and sweep it. This is the most wonderful mystery (7), and so are all the mysteries (random note in Materia Medica: dig a hole in the ground and hold water in a bowl).
Anyone who reuses mercury for Zhu is called. The method uses a clay pot with a chin or an upper pot (8). For every kilo of mercury, add two kilos of shiting grease (i.e. sulfur producers), but there is no star in the same research, and Lvshatou speculates that it can be canned. Cover it with an iron lampshade and press it with iron ruler. Tie wire to the bottom, fix the joint with salt mud, and put three nails on the ground to fix the jar. If you burn the fire for a long time and often wipe the lamp with a waste pen dipped in water, silver will turn into powder and stick to the jar, and people who stick to their mouths will be more delicious. Start cold, scrape and use. Its stone pavilion grease sinks into the bottom of the tank and can be reused. Every kilogram of mercury can get 14 Liang Zhu and 25 Liang, and this figure comes from sulfur.
Among them, the promotion of Zhu and the study of Zhu have similar effects. If the royal family and your family painted colors, then the people who studied by Chen Tong and Jin Dansha would not need this Zhu Ye. The inkstone is obvious where Zhu and the study are glued together. If ground on an inkstone, it will be made into soap juice. That is, the painter paints with fresh things, but it is obvious when tung oil is added, and it is awkward to paint.
Where there is nothing but mercury and Zhu Geng, the theory of seaweed mercury (9) is groundless and arrogant, and the ear eater (10) believes it. If mercury has risen to mercury, it can't go back to mercury, and the so-called ingenuity of nature has been exhausted. Selected from "Heavenly Creations and Danqing" (1) Chen and Jin: Chenzhou County, ruled in Yuanling, Hunan Province today. This time refers to Chenxi under Chenzhou, Mayang is in the southwest of Chenxi.
(2) Pregnant mercury: containing mercury (mercury).
(3) Sand such as light, arrow (zú) and mirror: all cinnabar should be named after its function.
(4) Mercury rising: mercury smelting.
(5) Silver and Tongren: Sinan, Yinjiang and Tongren in Guizhou are all in the northeast of Guizhou today.
(6) Shangzhou and Qin Zhou: Shangxian in Shaanxi and Tianshui in Gansu.
(7) Metaphysics: change. On Huainan Ziyun: "Make ghosts and gods mysterious."
(8) Upper and lower cauldrons: two cauldrons with the same caliber.
(9) Seaweed mercury theory: This is based on the theory quoted in Compendium of Materia Medica-Epigraphy, which holds that mercury can be extracted from Portulaca oleracea. This statement is not necessarily "unreasonable."
(10) Ear eater: A person who believes what an ear eater says. Cinnabar, mercury and cinnabar are originally a kind of things, and the difference in names is only caused by the difference between fine and thick, old and tender. Superior cinnabar is produced in Chenshui and Jinjiang Valley in western Hunan and western Sichuan. Although it contains mercury, it is not used to extract mercury. This is because several kinds of cinnabar, such as bright sand, arrowhead sand and mirror sand, are three times more expensive than mercury, so they should be selected for sale. If they are refined into mercury, their value will be reduced. Only rough and inferior cinnabar is used to extract mercury and then refined into cinnabar.
High-grade cinnabar ore can only be found by digging more than ten feet deep. When I found the mine seedlings, I only saw a pile of white stones called vermilion beds. Some cinnabar beside the bed is as big as an egg. Those inferior cinnabar are generally not used for dispensing, but only ground into powder for painting or mercury smelting. This second-class cinnabar mine doesn't necessarily have albite seedlings. You can get them by digging a few feet deep. The outside of its sediment is also mixed with blue-yellow stones or sand. Because there is cinnabar in the soil, most stones or sand are cracked by themselves. This kind of inferior cinnabar is the most common in Sinan, Yinjiang, Tongren and other places in eastern Guizhou, and it is also common in Shangxian, Shaanxi and Tianshui, Gansu.
Inferior cinnabar, if the whole ore is tender in texture and white in color, is not used to grind cinnabar, but all used to extract mercury. If the sand is tender, but there is red light flashing inside, use a big iron trough to grind it into dust powder, then put it in a jar, soak it in clear water for three days and three nights, then shake it and pour the floating sand into another jar. This is Jules. Take out that precipitated sand and air dry to form initial ink.
To smelt mercury, use white inferior cinnabar or floating cinnabar poured out of the jar, add water, rub it into thick strips, put it on a plate and put it in a pot. Each pot contains 30 kg * *, and the charcoal for the fire below is also 30 kg. The other pot should be placed upside down on the top of the pot, leaving a small hole on the top of the pot. The seam between the two cans should be reinforced and sealed with salt mud. The small hole on the top of the pot is connected with a curved iron pipe. The iron pipe should be wrapped tightly with hemp rope and reinforced with salt mud, so that there can be no air leakage at each joint. The other end of the elbow is connected to a pot containing two bottles of water, so that the gas in the melting pot can only reach the water in the pot. The bottom of the pot is heated by fire, and after about ten hours of calcination, cinnabar will all turn into mercury, covering the whole pot wall. After cooling for a day, take it out and sweep it. The inspiration here is the most elusive, and the changes in nature are really mysterious (in the annotation of Shennong Materia Medica, it is said that mercury smelting should "cut a hole in the ground and put a bowl to hold water" and so on. This is a careless attention!
Mercury is refined into cinnabar, so it is called cinnabar. Refine with an open clay pot or two clay pots. Add two kilograms of stone pavilion grease (natural sulfur) to each kilogram of mercury, grind them together until the bright spot of mercury can't be seen, fry them into bluish black, and put them into a jar. The jar mouth should be covered with an iron lamp, a iron ruler should be pressed on the lamp, the jar and the iron lamp should be tied tightly with iron wire, then sealed with salt mud, and then three iron bars should be inserted in the ground to support the clay jar. The fire is heating up, so make an appointment to burn three wick incense. In this process, the surface of the iron lamp should be constantly wiped with the waste brush dipped in water. At this time, mercury will turn into cinnabar powder and condense on the cylinder wall, and the color of cinnabar near the cylinder mouth will be more vivid. After cooling, unseal the iron lamp and scrape off the cinnabar. The remaining shiting grease sinks to the bottom of the tank and can be taken out for reuse. Every catty of mercury can be refined into 14 ounce of refined cinnabar and two-thirds of secondary cinnabar, and the extra weight is produced by the sulfur of Shi Ting grease.
The cinnabar extracted by this method is similar to that developed by natural cinnabar. The royal nobles painted with vermilion powder directly ground from Chenzhou and Jinzhou, instead of refined vermilion powder. Cinnabar used for research is usually glued into strips, and the original bright red color can be displayed by grinding it on the inkstone. But if you grind it on a tin inkstone, it will turn gray-black immediately. Painters use cinnabar red oil painting utensils, which will be very bright when mixed with tung oil and very dark when mixed with natural pigments.
Mercury and cinnabar have no other sources. The statement about the mercury sea and the mercury grass is groundless, and only blindly credulous people will believe it. After mercury is refined into cinnabar, it can no longer be reduced to mercury, because the ingenuity of nature in creating and educating everything has come to an end.