| Natural pearl picking The pearl produces in the whole year, usually is more in December, dive into the sea, take the sea freshwater mussel from the water plant or the stone, from it take out the pearl. The meat is edible. Before the modernization search for pearls emerge, the natural pearl gathering has been completed by the young river character and extremely good “the female divers”, formerly, the girls often start from 4 or 5 years old age to start to study dive and search for pearl. According to the stipulation, formerly the female divers every 40 minutes must go to sea to operate one time, in one day they worked at least 10 times. Until now, on the pearl island, the visitor can still see the performance of “the female diver” searching for pearl: The female divers put on the white diver's suit, they held the big wooden basin which was used for gathering the female shell. When they dived into the sea bosom from the ashore in an instant,they aroused the water drop four splash, which looked like a pearl danceing in the air, made the person recollections in close succession, but in the filling of the poetic sentiment and behind the romantic sentiment scene, was the difficulty which the female divers were assaulting the great storms. In the past, each small pearl was condensing the female divers industrious and the sweat. | |
