Simple identification of ABC jadeite

Having talked about diamonds, let’s talk about jadeite. We can see from the literal meaning of jadeite that jadeite comes in red and green colors. Jadeite was especially popular during the Qing Dynasty. Up to now, jadeite with good quality and color can be auctioned at sky-high prices. Today we will not talk about the quality of jade, but mainly talk about the ABC grades of jade.

When buying jadeite, you will often hear merchants say that this is A-grade jade, natural, so the price is more expensive. In fact, this is not entirely correct. After all, the price evaluation of jadeite is very complicated. Whether it is A-grade or not, the quality of the jadeite also has a great influence on the price of jadeite. So A-grade jade is not necessarily expensive and valuable. There is color in the A-grade jade, and it is a cheap product with poor water quality. There is no special method to identify A-grade goods. Let's focus on identifying BC goods. As the saying goes, if you eliminate the impossible, then the possible is possible.

So what is B-grade jade? We mentioned earlier that some A-grade jades have very poor texture and are called dog shit (is it to describe that the value of this kind of jade is not as good as dog shit?). Such jade is worthless. In order to increase its value, merchants will use acid washing and filling methods to process jade to make the texture of jade become crystal clear and translucent. Today's B-grade jade processing technology is also quite advanced, and some of it is not easy to identify in the laboratory. However, the general B-grade jadeite often looks loose in structure, and its luster is duller than that of A-grade jadeite, and some even have a full sense of gummyness at first glance.

C-grade jadeite refers to jadeite that has only had its color processed. Now everyone knows that the greener the jadeite is, the more expensive it is. So some merchants will use dyes to process some jadeite that appears to have a worse color, making its color look better, thereby increasing the price of the jadeite. The identification of C-grade jadeite is relatively simpler than that of B-grade jadeite, because in order to dye it, the dye must penetrate into it, so the color of C-grade jadeite is often distributed along the cracks, and the color will look unnatural, such as being particularly green.

In addition to the ones mentioned above, there is also a kind called B plus C goods. You should know from the name that even if it is B goods and C goods, that is, it has been filled and dyed, the quality of this kind of jade is hard to describe.

The above are the common types of jade on the market. When buying jade, it is best to buy Grade A jade. After all, although Grade B and Grade C jade are cheap and beautiful, jade that has been dyed and acid-washed is not so friendly to the body. Not all A-grade jadeite is expensive. Jadeite of similar quality as oily green bean type and glutinous type is not very expensive.

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