When choosing jadeite, should you choose the quality or the color?

As the saying goes, "Nine out of ten jades have flaws." Jade is like a person. It is difficult to find someone without flaws. But if you change your perspective and appreciate the shining points of a piece of jade or a person, you will often gain different insights. No wonder Confucius compared a gentleman to jade, the ancients were right!

As for the question of which is more important, the type or color of jade, it has become a point of entanglement for many people. After all, if a piece of jade is of good type but colorless, it will not look luxurious enough, and if the color is good but the water is not good, it will not be lively enough. Therefore, the type and color are complementary to each other.

In the industry, we have the saying that "laymen look at the color, experts look at the quality", but don't forget the saying that "one point of color is ten points of price". Almost all jade lovers understand the preciousness of green jade. In fact, these sayings are praises of jade lovers for jade, and they are just expressing their own opinions and a hundred schools of thought.

The value of jade is determined by five aspects: quality, water, background color, and workmanship. In our usual descriptions, we tend to talk about quality and water together, so quality and water and color become the two primary criteria for us to assess the value of jade. The most valuable green jadeite is the one with pure bright green color. The value will be reduced if it is bluish or yellowish. However, pure bright green is not necessarily suitable for everyone. A young woman wearing the delicate yellow sprout green looks bright and pretty, while a man wearing blue-green jadeite or the darker spinach green looks steady and restrained, and the price is also more affordable.

When choosing jadeite, instead of being picky about a piece that has color but poor quality, it is better to change your perspective. Although the quality of this piece is not good, the color is what you like. This kind of mentality will make you feel much more relaxed and happy. Scarcity makes things valuable. Emerald green jade is very rare. Wearing jade is an enjoyment, and buying jade can also be an enjoyable process. Having the ability to explore and discover beauty is far better than having the ability to be picky.

When first getting involved in the jade world, many jade lovers only appreciate the emerald green jadeite, the flawless glass jadeite, or the mysterious and deep violet jadeite. If they happen to see yellow and green jadeite, they will be surprised why its color is so complex and why its price is much higher than that of pure color jadeite. The precious and rare yellow-green is like a beauty kept in a secluded boudoir, unknown to the world. Only when you understand how difficult it is to produce, how few of it there are in the world, and how unique its color is, will you feel the extraordinary charm of the yellow-green that is a symbiosis of "jade" and "emerald".

In traditional Chinese culture, yellow is the color of emperor, representing authority, dignity and wealth, while green symbolizes nature, implying life and poetry like green mountains and clear waters. The gemstone that combines these two beautiful colors is none other than jadeite. Yellow and green jadeite is valuable for its bright and rich color, large color blocks and strong contrast. The bright yellow and green is mostly of a not-transparent glutinous ice texture. The mellow and full charm gives people a sense of pleasant satisfaction and fulfillment, just like the joy and abundance of "You must remember the best scenery of the year, when the oranges and tangerines are yellow and green." The clear and translucent ice-type yellow and green is usually not bright in color, but soft like goose yellow and willow green. It is elegant and tranquil yet bright and pretty, as if a woman in a yellow shirt is galloping across the desert, with long green feathers flowing like a painting, coming gracefully, counting the joyful grudges of the tung flowers in the desert and the leather-shod green horse.

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