Since the first pearl was found, people take pearls as lucky, completion, happiness, wealth and rank. There are also many romantic legends about pearls talked by people from generation to generation.
In Chinese most popularized legends, pearls have something with the moon. It is said that pearls are formed because of the moon. The knowledge of pearls' history always included numerous remote and ethereal stories, which are the combinations of the true and false, beauty and ugliness, as well as some wealth, right and love.
The beauty of the moon are believed as the most important element in the formation of a pearl in Chinese culture. As some classical literature says, the mussel, the mother of the pearl, will open to absorb the light and the spirit of the moon in the night of the full day. After a proper accumulation over a long period, a beautiful pearl was born. In this way, the size, roundness and the luster have something with the moonlight that a mussel absorbed.
