What should you pay attention to when purchasing heirloom jadeite? You will understand after reading this!

"Experts look at the quality, laymen look at the color" is a phrase we jade experts often say.

Yes, good quality jade means that the jade looks fresh and translucent from the outside; and has a fine and dense structure from the inside. For example, glass-type jade is crystal clear and vivid, as if it has life.

The poor quality of jade will manifest itself in: coarse crystal grains and insufficiently dense structure; from the appearance, it lacks sharp luster and feels dry and dull. It can be seen that if you want to buy heirloom jade, it is very important to choose the right "type".

Let’s take a look at the sorting of species:

Jadeite, according to the size of the internal mineral crystal particles, they can be divided into: glass type > gold wire type > ice glass type > ice type > hibiscus type > oily green type > ice glutinous type > fine glutinous type > white ground green > flower green type > dry green type > glutinous type > bean type. The value size is usually from left to right.

Or let me rank it more simply and easily for you: glass type > ice glass type > ice type > ice glutinous type > fine glutinous type > glutinous type > bean type.

The quality of ice glass is between glass and ice. The quality of fine glutinous and ice glutinous varieties is better than that of glutinous varieties, but it is not as good as ice varieties. As for the strange names of "species" such as gold thread variety, hibiscus variety, oil green variety, white ground green variety, flower green variety, and dry green variety, they are all named because of the unique colors in the "species".

The easiest explanation about species:

The above also talks about many types of jade in a long and detailed manner. Let’s talk about what these “species” look like in detail.

1. Glass type

The internal particles of glass-type jade are very dense, with 10,000 mineral particles evenly distributed in 1 square millimeter. Therefore, it appears as transparent as glass, pure and flawless, just like the lake on the Tianshan Mountains. When you appreciate it with the naked eye, you can also see the wonderful fluorescence.

2. Ice glass

A type of jade that is close to glass, but its texture is as transparent and delicate as ice, with a light sense of clear water.

3. Ice

Ice jade is like the Little Dragon Girl in "The Return of the Condor Heroes", with a pure and clean appearance and a gentle and tender heart. It is another top-grade jade after the glass type.

4. Ice glutinous

A kind of glutinous jade with high transparency and good water content, which can achieve the effect of ice type.

5. Fine glutinous variety

The structure of the glutinous variety is coarser, while the structure of the fine glutinous variety is finer. The fine glutinous variety is like fine rice porridge, somewhat transparent but not quite, with fine cotton visible.

6. Glutinous

Seriously speaking, glutinous jade is a very old type of jade. Its internal structure has become cottony, and it looks hazy to the naked eye, giving people a feeling of "old rice".

7. Bean seeds

The crystal grains of bean-type jadeite are large and short columnar. If you look closely, they look like green beans. It is a common variety in the jadeite circle.

Saying "seed" instead of "water" is just hooliganism. Generally speaking, the better the quality of jade, the better the water content. There are also jadeites with poor quality but good water content. For example, the structure of some jadeite is very fine and the quality looks good, but the particles are not tightly connected together, which affects the projection of light, resulting in poor light transmittance of the jade and making it look less watery.

A one-cent difference in the quality of the product will result in a ten-fold difference in price. Once we know how to look at the "type" of jade, we can have a high chance of buying heirloom jade.

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