What professional knowledge should you know when choosing jadeite?

People are always learning throughout their lives. There is a first time for everything. No matter what you come into contact with, you need to keep exploring and trying. You must have confidence in yourself, face it bravely, and dare to try in order to gain something. Especially when it comes to jadeite, you need more than just courage! It requires support from many aspects such as knowledge, vision, courage, and capital. First of all, it requires the support of knowledge. Without knowledge, no matter how much capital and courage you have, all will be wiped out! Because the success or failure of jade is determined by knowledge. Here I will share with you some tips on how to choose jadeite

The first stage is “blind men and the elephant”. When they look at jade bracelets worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, they just think that they are not as good as those in the advertisements, but they are still able to accept them. Question: "This bracelet probably costs several hundred or a thousand dollars, right?" This process takes many people several years to get a little bit of the hang of it.

The second stage is “high expectations but low performance”. I don’t like ordinary jade, but I can’t bear to buy good jade! I bought a lot of cheap stuff and put them at home. I feel embarrassed to wear them outside, they are an eyesore, I can't give them away as gifts, and when I want to sell them I find I can't afford the price! Finally, I realized a very simple truth: use the money you would have spent on 10 or 20 cheap jades to buy only one or two good jades. They are of extremely high value and beauty. It is face-saving to wear them outside, pleasant to collect them, a favor to give them to others, and you can make a profit by reselling them. This is exactly the kind of thing that “maintains and increases value.”

The third stage is "Purchase Highlights". Only after "seeing countless jades" can you understand within what price range to buy the most cost-effective things. This is called buying within your means and purchasing highlights. The most taboo thing about jade is the pursuit of "perfection", perfect material, perfect carving, favorite subject matter, and excellent color! I can say that this kind of jade does not exist in the world, unless it is fake! Imperial green and glass-type jades worth tens of millions can have slight flaws, but even so, this is a price you cannot afford, because nature's treasures are not perfect. If you want her beauty, you have to accept her shortcomings. The more tasteful and wealthy people are, the more knowledgeable they are, and they know that there is no perfect thing in the world. A perfect thing is meaningless, just like life is meaningless without death.

What is a "highlight"? The jargon is "it is better to buy the best than to buy the missing one." Or pursue "unique craftsmanship". Or pursue "unique stuff". Either they pursue "unique color", or they pursue "unique meaning", "unique creativity" and so on.

These are the "highlights". Jadeite with highlights cannot be replicated. It cannot be faked, it cannot be seen by the naked eye, but it can be identified by instruments! For merchants doing jade business, the most profitable thing is "volume", and the least profitable thing is to pursue "creative carving". The cruelest reality in the jade market is that there is no more or less good material, as long as you can afford the price. However, it is extremely difficult to find jadeite of high quality with exquisite carving and unlimited creativity. The reason is simple: even a national jade carving master may not be able to produce a few works of "infinite creativity and superb carving" in his lifetime!

Any jade merchant who pursues not only exquisite carving but also "unlimited creativity" in carving is forcing himself into a "dead end"! If you don't have the patience to hold on to goods for ten years or even longer, it will be difficult to accumulate a certain number of jade carvings with "excellent carving, unlimited creativity" and extremely high cost-effectiveness. The reason is very simple: good things are traded privately, and no one will keep the jadeite that they like on the market. The peers with more sophisticated skills have already "taken the initiative", so how can it be your turn?

Who has ever seen something on the market with exquisite carving, good intentions and fine materials that is not priced sky-high? If you have jadeite with "bright spots" in your hands and are prepared to sell them in packages at a "loss", then any jeweler will definitely give all they have, even if it means "selling everything they have" to buy all the good things you are selling at a "loss", because the market is for profit, and if good things are sold at extremely low prices, you are not selling anything, but "giving money away".

You let others pay for your incompetence and stupidity by selling inferior goods. You not only buy a bunch of inferior goods, but more importantly, you have committed a big taboo for businessmen. You also buy "bad luck" and "bad luck"! Buying jade is not a "sure win". Jade with "bright spots" is not only for yourself to play with, but also for the next generation. It is the most precious and richest historical and cultural heritage that will be passed down forever with a visible carrier. In this sense, if you own a piece of jade with "bright spots" and leave it to future generations, you can be said to have "immeasurable merits"!

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