Jadeite collectors and investors must know 6 basic knowledge and culture

1. Luxury and nobility - historical perspective

Jadeite is the commercial name given to a kind of Burmese jade by people in the Qing Dynasty. Jadeite began to be imported into China at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. As a rare item, it was brought into the imperial palace. During the Tongzhi and Guangxu years, it was loved by Empress Dowager Cixi and became popular in upper class society. The Qing royal family became the only royal family in the world at that time that liked jadeite.

2. Spirit and symbol - cultural perspective

The word "jadeite" appeared very early, referring to a "jadeite bird" whose male and female are distinguished by red or green colors. In Han Dynasty prose, Tang Dynasty poetry and Song Dynasty lyrics, the term "Cui Fei" is often used to describe some red and green gemstones.

“Wearing gold shows wealth, wearing jade ensures safety.” Jade jewelry will be engraved with vivid and lifelike auspicious patterns in various forms, including figures, objects, animals, plants, etc. The content expresses the wish for good fortune, longevity, safety, many children and grandchildren, promotion and wealth. Jade is a treasure in the hands of the Chinese, and it is also the soul in their hearts.

As the saying goes, it is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. A gentleman considers jade as a beautiful object. Literati and scholars like jade because it symbolizes the tenacious and indomitable integrity and spirit of literati.

3. Time and Sedimentation - From the Perspective of Physical and Chemical Properties

Jade is like a main dish on the dinner table, which is cooked with a variety of ingredients, using complicated procedures and spending a lot of time. Jade is a fibrous aggregate composed of pyroxene minerals, mainly jadeite minerals. Its main component is sodium aluminum silicate - NaAlSi2O6, which contains various trace elements such as Ca, Cr, Ni, Mn, Mg, Fe, etc. It is not a simple and random mixture of various components, but a combination of organized and regular physical and chemical reactions.

4. Rare and precious: from the perspective of geographical distribution

Most of the high-quality jadeite on the jewelry market comes from the Quaternary and Tertiary conglomerate secondary jadeite deposits in the Wulou River (Jiang) basin in northern Myanmar. In addition to Myanmar, other countries in the world that produce jade include China, Guatemala, Japan, the United States, Kazakhstan, Mexico and Colombia. The characteristic of jadeite from these countries is that very few of them reach gem grade, and most of them are some carving-grade craft materials. A small amount of jade ore is also produced in Cele County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

5. Wealth and appreciation - from the perspective of investment and collection

With the development and maturity of the Internet, online promotion and marketing have become an important means of product sales. Due to the convenience of knowledge and information transmission, there is a certain size of people who are understanding and learning jade knowledge, and then have a demand for investment and collection of jade. In addition, with the slowdown and gradual stabilization of the real estate industry, more people may get involved in the jade investment and collection industry with better value preservation and appreciation.

6. Beauty and Art: Aesthetic Perspective

Everyone has a pursuit of beauty. The beauty of jade lies in its elegance, its peace, the accumulation of people's emotions and the superposition of cultural taste, and more importantly, the meaningful cultural symbols left over from human history. Just ask yourself, who would not love and pity a piece of pure and delicate jade?

The same thing has different meanings and values ​​to different people. I would be willing to spend a fortune to buy something I like, but I probably wouldn't even accept something I don't like if it was given to me.

Life should be about pursuing things that you like and that are valuable, so I think that by finding the value of the people or things around you to yourself, you have found your own value.

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