珍珠可分天然珍珠和养殖珍珠两类。约从四千多年以前开始,人们便知采捕天然珍珠,后来,随着科学技术的发展逐渐出现了用人工培养珍珠的方法。在近半个世纪以来,天然珍珠的地位已基本上被养殖珍珠所代替。我国珍珠贝类的资源十分丰富,除了淡水种类因还存在较大的技术困难,目前利用的数量和价值还不十分大之外,在海产的珍珠贝科动物(Pteriidae) Pearls can be divided into two types of natural pearls and cultured pearl. About four thousand years ago, people knew that natural pearls were harvested. Later, with the development of science and technology, there appeared a method of cultivating pearls by hand. For nearly half a century, the status of natural pearls has been largely replaced by cultured pearls. China’s pearl shellfish resources are very rich, in addition to freshwater species because there are still large technical difficulties, the current number and value of the use is not yet very large, in the marine pearl Beko animal (Pteriidae)