Seeking Jewelry Essay

Abstract: Jadeite, with its deep historical and cultural connotations, is an important part of the long-lasting jade culture of the Chinese nation. Jadeite has almost become the embodiment of jade, jade synonymous. Since ancient times, there are people to raise jade, jade to raise people beautiful talk.

Keywords: Jadeite, Preferences, Appreciation

Body:

Jadeite, since ancient times, is considered to be the genie of the heavens and the earth, gathering the sun and the moon's light, and containing the beauty of the mountains and rivers. For thousands of years, jade is not only a beautiful stone, but also be given a variety of mystical beliefs and spiritual trust. Ancient and modern people love jade, "gentleman without a reason, jade does not leave the body". Although we have a special complex for jade, but its understanding, is half-understood.

One of the reasons for favoring jadeite jade

Jadeite, with deep historical and cultural connotations, is an important part of the Chinese people's long history of jade culture. Jadeite has almost become the embodiment of jade, jade synonymous. And why do people love jade as much as they do? I think it is due to the following points:

1, Jade set of gemstones and jade beauty in one, and high-quality Jade is extremely rare;

2, Jadeite has a very good physicochemical properties, hardness of 7, far lower than diamonds, but its pressure is much larger than diamonds, toughness is good, chemical properties are stable;

3, the Chinese forefathers see green, red as a symbol of happiness and prosperity and love, has always been a symbol of love and loyalty. Loyalty to love, has been wearing jade to prevent and avoid disasters, turn misfortune into good luck, get rid of diseases and prolong the custom;

4, high-quality jadeite is mainly produced in Burma, at the beginning of the shipment of China, is the Chinese first made jewelry and jade, and into the unique traditional jade culture of the Chinese people, so that it has become a rare and precious or favorite arts and crafts, and therefore can be said to be the first Chinese people to develop and use Jadeite;

5. Jadeite has rich cultural connotations, fully reflecting China's rich cultural heritage and the profundity of Chinese civilization;

6. Jadeite is the embodiment of beauty, which is a collection of the various beauties expressed by jade since ancient times, such as material beauty, the beauty of the heart after the personification of the beauty and virtue, love, wisdom, justice, humility, harmony, loyalty, sincerity of the beauty of jadeite, jadeite also highlight the beauty of color, styling, and the beauty of the shape of the jadeite, which is the first to be developed and used by the Chinese people;

5. Highlighted the beauty of color, shape, material, mysterious beauty, rare beauty;

7, high-quality emerald stone symbol of wealth, with the continuous development of China's economy, more and more people began to bar with emerald art and other collectibles as a sign of success, spiritual enjoyment and satisfaction, emerald has the value of symbolizing the identity, status, image.

Two, jade appreciation

Jade is certainly charming, but for her appreciation is not an easy thing. How to evaluate the quality of a piece of jadeite raw material is a lot of expert research, thinking about the problem. Comprehensive existing research results, we can analyze the following aspects:

(a) color:

Color is the most important factor in the evaluation of jadeite, jadeite is the highest value of green, followed by red, lotus root pink, etc., the color is good or bad, directly affecting the value of jadeite. To consider the color is good or bad, we must specifically analyze the emerald color is positive, whether the intensity is appropriate, the color of the warm and cold, the distribution of color is uniform and other aspects. The so-called: positive, thick, Yang, are.

Positive: that is, the range of tones, according to the proportion of primary and secondary colors, that is to say, pure green, not mixed with other colors. For example, oil green is often mixed with oil blue, the value will be reduced.

Thick: refers to the depth of the color, in terms of emerald green concentration is best between 70% 80%, 90% has been too thick. The color is too thick will affect the transparency, too light too light is not good. It is generally believed that the jadeite color to the appropriate thickness is good.

Yang: refers to the bright degree of jadeite color bright sun, jadeite bright degree is mainly due to the proportion of jadeite containing green and black or gray to decide. Proportion of green color will be bright, if containing more black or gray, the color is gray, connoisseurs often take the image of the method to indicate the color of the fresh Yang. For example: boxwood green, parrot green, green onion heart green, chili green, are referred to the color of bright sun. And spinach green, oil green, river green, black green, refers to the color dull dark green.

The more fresh and sunny the jade, the higher the natural value.

Even: refers to the uniformity of the distribution of the color of jadeite. Jadeite color distribution is generally uneven, such as can get the color distribution uniformity of jadeite is not easy. Some of the raw materials of the green is distributed in bands, some of the raw materials of the color is lumpy, some is a line. Jadeite color if the use of good, clever use, this raw material has been the maximum use, you can maximize its value.

The best color: should be pure green, green concentration in 70% -80%, Yan Yang bright, color distribution uniformity, this kind of high-grade jadeite, connoisseurs used to call the old pit species.

(2) transparency

Transparency of jadeite, refers to the depth of light through the jadeite, the jargon called "head". Jadeite is a rock, is dominated by jadeite mineral polycrystalline aggregate, most of the translucent, or even opaque. Perhaps because of this, the Chinese people prefer Jade, like Jade that translucent, watery feeling.

Composition of jadeite jadeite mineral crystal particle size, arrangement and the content of impurities, etc., have a direct impact on its transparency. General jadeite connoisseurs will be called "species", "water". Transparency is good water is enough, good species; poor transparency is poor species or water is very dry. Some connoisseurs use very graphic words to express the transparency of jadeite, for example: glass seed, ice seed, dry green seed and so on.

The better the transparency of the jadeite raw material, the higher the value, especially in the evaluation of high-grade jadeite, transparency on the value of the impact is often higher than the color, there is a certain color and good jadeite in order to become high-grade goods. For the low-grade jade, colored seedless to be much more expensive than colorless seed, in this case the color is more important than the transparency.

(C) structure

We are talking about the structure of jadeite refers to the composition of jadeite jadeite minerals crystalline particles of coarse and fine, the shape of the crystals and their combination of distribution, connoisseurs say "bottom" or "ground".

Generally speaking, the smaller the crystalline particles of the jadeite minerals, the finer the texture of the jadeite; the coarser the crystals of the jadeite minerals, the worse the texture of the jadeite, the feeling is not delicate, the polishing effect is poor, the lower the price.

We can be roughly divided into several categories of jadeite texture, from very fine - fine - coarser - coarse - very coarse these five levels, generally good jadeite texture are very fine, but also according to the good and bad of the ground, to analyze the difference in the price of jadeite raw materials, and research the The general law, it will be easier to know the "ground" on the jade value of the magnitude of the impact.

(D) cleanliness

Jadeite evaluation like other gemstones, cleanliness also directly affects its value.

There are two main types of jadeite flaws: white and black. Black blemishes can be found in the form of dots, filaments and bands, and are mainly black minerals, such as hornblende. White flaws are mainly distributed in blocks and grains, generally known as stone flowers, blisters, etc., mainly white steatite, minerals and feldspar minerals.

The extent of the impact of the flaws on the value of jadeite can only be determined after a comprehensive analysis of the size and distribution characteristics of the flaws, as well as whether or not these factors can be eliminated and whether or not they will have a significant impact on the quality of jadeite.

(E) cut

The finished jadeite processing is divided into two categories: finished body and carved finished products.

Light body products on the raw material requirements are high, can not have cracks, because a crack is easy to see. Cracked jadeite, mostly used to do flower pieces, through the carving techniques can cover the cracks.

So in the evaluation of the finished product and flowers, in the case of the same quality, light body products to be more expensive than the flower carvings, of course, there is a particularly exquisite carving of jade is an exception.

(F) crack

Cracks, if a jadeite material on the large cracks, which will greatly affect its value. The degree of impact depends on the size, depth, location and other factors to judge the cracks.

Three, perception

Jadeite with its rare and noble character, won the "King of Jade" reputation, both the quiet charm of the East, the West's noble and graceful, is regarded as one of the representatives of the Oriental civilization, the jadeite green deep, subtle, soft, represents a yearning, a trust, a satisfaction, a romantic feeling of the power of nature. A kind of romantic feelings of the force of nature.

Jade was originally a stone, everyone's view of it is different, and everyone's preference is not the same. As the saying goes, "gold has a price, jade is priceless". I think, as long as it is jade, with personal feeling, it can give you a wonderful feeling, that's enough. We do not have to stick to the world's eyes. By heart, what you find must be the precious jade in your heart.

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