合浦采珠昉自何时已难考查。据《后汉书·循吏传》孟尝“合浦还珠”故事,孟是东汉桓帝时人,合浦采珠自然是早在汉桓帝以前。又《后汉书·马援传》载马援征南时从南方运回薏苡种,中土官吏认作是南方的珍珠,从而谮陷马援。这件事说明南方珍珠在汉光武帝以前久已闻名中州了。而合浦采珠当早在纪元之前,迄今已有二千年以上的历史了。合浦,即今广西省合浦县。珍珠生产,则不仅 Hepu mining bead 昉 since it is difficult to test. According to “Biography of the Later Han Biography” Meng taste “Hepu also beads ” story, Meng is the Eastern Han Dynasty Huan emperor, Hepu mining beads as early as before Huan Hanyuan. And “after the Han Ma Yu Chuan” contains horse aid Zhengnan shipped back from the south Coix species, soil officials in the south regarded as pearls, thus catching horse aid. This incident shows that the Pearl of the South has long been known as the Emperor of the Han Emperor Guangwu. Hepu plucking beads as early as before the era, so far has more than two thousand years of history. Hepu, now Hepu County, Guangxi Province. Pearl production, then not only