The most complete collection of jade varieties, with detailed pictures and texts!

In China, people believe that jade can ensure safety, ward off disasters and evil spirits, and that wearing your favorite jade can make your wishes come true. Oriental women are women who love beauty. The wearers use the elegant colors of jade jewelry to show off their proud and confident skin. When jade jewelry is cleverly combined with a graceful figure, jade undoubtedly plays a role of "finishing touch", achieving the highest realm of harmony between natural beauty and human beauty.

There is a saying about jadeite that it has “36 kinds of water, 72 kinds of beans (green), and 108 kinds of blue”, which is used to illustrate that the changes in the color of jadeite under water are very complex, there are many types, and it is difficult to identify. The following mainly introduces some common jade varieties, I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

1. Types of Jadeite:

1. Black Ice Ink Painting

Black ice is a gray-black to dark black jade, with more than 98% being jadeite. It is a monomineral rock with a tight and fine structure. The black color is produced when jade is formed beneath the surface, often caused by the infiltration of organic carbon. In the industry, old experts call it "ink painting jade" because of its black texture, which looks like an ink painting of a landscape.

2. Black Jade

At first glance, it looks shiny black and can easily be mistaken for the black jade from Dushan jade or other black gemstones. It appears dark black and oily under natural light, but when observed under transmitted light, it is translucent and has a hint of green in the black. Especially the thin flake-like black jadeite, which has a pleasing color under transmitted light. The Burmese use "lover's shadow" to describe black jadeite, and the Chinese call it "black jadeite".

3. Ice

The texture is similar to the old pit type, colorless or less colored. The characteristic of the ice type is that the outer surface has a good gloss, translucent to transparent, clear like ice, giving people a feeling of icy and jade. If there is floc-like or discontinuous vein-like blue color in the ice-type jadeite, such jadeite is called "blue flower ice", which is a common variety of ice-type jadeite. Icy jade is often used to make bracelets or pendants.

There is no obvious difference in value between colorless ice jadeite and "blue flower ice" jadeite. Their actual prices mainly depend on people's preferences. The so-called ice type refers to a variety with extremely transparent and watery texture. It has the same effect as the golden water bodhi among colored gemstones, but the difference is that there is no so-called cotton in the high-quality chalcedony, and the texture is more lustrous.

4. Water-type jadeite

The jade structure of water-type jadeite is slightly coarser than that of old pit glass-type. Its gloss and transparency are also slightly lower than that of old pit glass-type, but similar to or equivalent to ice-type. Its characteristic refers to the transparency of jadeite. The higher the transparency, the better the water head; the type refers to the internal structure. The denser the internal structure, the older the type. On the contrary, the rougher the internal structure, the tenderer the seed. It is as transparent as water but has a soft luster. If you look closely at its internal structure, you can see a few "ripples", or a small amount of dark cracks and stone patterns, and occasionally very few impurities and cotton willow. Some experts say that water-type jadeite is light-colored or colorless, and of slightly inferior quality to old pit-type jadeite. It is a mid-to-high-range and occasionally high-range variety among jadeite.

5. Bashan Jade

The raw stone of Bashan jade is a "brick material" with coarse crystals, loose structure, dry water and poor bottom, but its color is relatively rich, including light purple, light green, green or blue-gray. It is a special jade with lower grade and contains minerals such as amphibole and albite.

6. Red Jade

Jadeite with bright red or orange-red color can be easily found in the market. The color of red jadeite is formed after the formation of jadeite crystals and is caused by hematite impregnation. It is characterized by bright red or dark red. Good red jade has excellent color and glassy luster. Its transparency is translucent. Red jade products are often mid-range or mid-to-low-end products. But there is also high-grade red jadeite: it has bright color, fine texture, and is very beautiful. It is a jadeite with auspicious colors that is loved by people.

7. Guangpian

Its characteristics are dark green or black under natural light, coarse texture and drier water head.

8. Yellow-brown jadeite

Jadeite colors range from yellow to brownish yellow or brownish yellow, and have lower transparency. Jadeite products in this range of colors can be found everywhere in the market. Their color is also formed after the formation of jadeite crystals, and is often distributed above the red layer, caused by limonite impregnation.

In the market, the value of red jade is higher than that of yellow jade, which is higher than brown-yellow jade, and brown-yellow jade is the least valuable. However, there are also cases where the price is different from the usual due to people's preference or the uniqueness of the accessories. There are two types of yellow jadeite. The yellow to brownish yellow color is generally called the golden autumn type, which looks like crops in the autumn harvest season; the brownish yellow to brownish yellow color is also called the sauce glaze type, which is similar to the sauce glaze of porcelain, also called the old type.

9. Dry green

The color of dry green jadeite is rich green and pleasing to the eye. The color is pure and innocent, similar to the darker general jadeite, and its color is sometimes dark and black. Regardless of the color depth, because the hardness of dry green, which is mainly composed of sodium chrome pyroxene, is relatively low, its color lacks strength and appears dull and weak. This is also one of the more obvious differences from jade in the general sense.

The prominent disadvantages of dry green jadeite are poor transparency, weak ability to withstand sunlight, rough texture and dry bottom, and the dry and rough sound when knocking on the raw stone. Chromite inclusions with metallic luster are often seen on the surface of dry green.

10. Iron Dragon

A jade piece full of green. The mine was discovered in 1990, publicly mined in 1994, and nearly exhausted in 2000. Iron dragon stones of good quality are particularly scarce on the market. Tielongsheng is a mid-range jadeite with bright green color, but with varying shades, poor transparency, loose structure, and columnar crystals arranged in a certain direction. It can often be seen in the market. "Tielongsheng" is derived from the pronunciation of White Burmese. The Burmese word "Tielongsheng" means full green.

11. Flower Green Jade

The color is emerald green and distributed in vein-like patterns, which are extremely irregular; the texture is coarse and fine, and translucent. Its base color is light green or other colors, such as light gray or bean green, and its structure is mainly fibrous and fine-grained to medium-grained. The characteristic of lavender jadeite is uneven green color, some are denser, some are more sparse, and the color can be deep or light. There is also a type of structure in the lavender jade that is only granular and lacks wateriness. Due to its rough structure, its transparency is often very poor. Huaqing belongs to the mid-range or mid-to-low-grade jadeite.

12. Oily green jadeite

Oil green jade is also known as oil green or oil soaked. Its transparency and luster look oily. It is a low- and medium-grade jade that can be found everywhere in the market. It is often used to make pendants and bracelets, and is also made into ring faces. The green color of the Youqing variety is obviously impure, containing gray and blue components, so it is dull and not bright enough.

13. Bean-type Jade

Bean-type jadeite, also known as bean-type jadeite, is a very common variety in the jadeite family.

14. Old Mine Jade

It is commonly known in the business world as "old pit glass type". It usually has a glassy luster, its texture is delicate, pure and flawless, and its color is pure, bright, rich and uniform emerald green. The old pit type jadeite jadeite has very fine grains, so it is extremely difficult to see the "emerald quality" with the naked eye. Old pit jade appears translucent to transparent under the light and is the best or highest quality jade.

15. Violet Jade

This is a purple jadeite with the color like violet flowers. The jewelry industry calls violet "Chun" or "Spring Color". Jadeite with "spring color" comes in high, medium and low grades. It is not necessarily valuable or top-grade as long as it is violet. It must also be comprehensively evaluated based on quality indicators such as texture, transparency, and craftsmanship.

The purple color on jade is generally not deep. The jade industry divides the purple in jade into pink purple, eggplant purple and blue purple according to the different shades of purple. Pink purple usually has a finer texture and better transparency, followed by eggplant purple and then blue purple.

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