The Jade Variety That Gives Goosebumps to People When They Hear It - Black Chicken Jade

Speaking of jade, the first thing that comes to mind is usually emerald green jade. Nowadays, with the expansion of the jewelry market, jade of various shapes and colors has come into everyone's view. Among them, a gray-black jadeite "broke through the siege" and was loved by many people. It is the black chicken jade.

The black chicken jade is mainly composed of single mineral jadeite. The mineral particles are short columnar and granular, and the rock has a vertical metamorphic structure.

Its color is similar to the skin of black chicken, hence the name. Black chicken jade is generally gray-black to black, with uneven color. Some black chicken jade will have gray-green tones to varying degrees. The overall color is slightly transparent to opaque. Of the mineral composition of black chicken jade, more than 98% is jadeite, and the remaining 2% is a small amount of accessory minerals and black pigments. These melanins are composed of some tiny black impurity inclusions distributed along the gaps and cracks of jadeite jadeite mineral crystals. When the black substance appears in small amounts and locally, the color of the jadeite appears grayish white or grayish black, which is called "incense ash ground" jadeite.

Black chicken jade is also natural jade with a glassy luster. The structure is compact and the emerald green texture is obvious. The black chicken jadeite with better water quality looks like an elegant ink painting when viewed from a distance. The black part spreads out like ink, and the transparent bottom is like pure water. The whole piece of jade is very artistic.

Why was black chicken jade so unpopular before? To put it bluntly, it’s still a problem of the material. Compared with other jades, black chicken jade does not seem to be that good. The color of black chicken jade is not bright and full, so it is not so eye-catching and is less popular among people. Also, the carving skills in the past were not as high as they are today, so the beauty of black chicken jade could not be carved out. Now, through the processing of more sophisticated carving art, black chicken jade has become a unique work of art that attracts people's attention.

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