The beauty of emerald snowflake cotton is like the first snow at first glance, hazy and poetic!

Although jade is flawless, the "cotton" in jade that we are talking about today is a common phenomenon in the raw materials. It is described as "cotton" because it looks like cotton wool and cloud-like. It is the source of inspiration for jade carving creation.

Snowflake Cotton in Jade

Cotton is a common white inclusion in jade, mostly in the form of flakes, clumps, filaments, and dots. Snowflake cotton is the most unique of all jade cottons. It is characterized by pure white color and lightness. It floats inside the jade and blends with the seeds, becoming a part of its structure. It is clean and smooth, numerous, and distributed in a dense, even and orderly manner.

Snowflake cotton can be clearly observed with the naked eye because it mostly exists in ice and glass types with excellent water quality. The dense texture and fine grains make it easier to highlight the large volume of the snowflake cotton.

The snowflakes are white and cotton-like, some sparse, some dense, and some scattered, like the fluttering snow in the cold winter, dancing in the sky, quiet, flawless, spotless, and soft. Each ball of snowflake cotton dances with poetic softness and leisure. You seem to be able to hear the sound of it gently sliding down, while also feeling a sense of tranquility in the vast whiteness. Those poetic and picturesque scenes, no matter how you imagine, have already secretly echoed the ancient poem: The white snow thinks spring is coming too late, so it penetrates the trees in the courtyard and turns into flying flowers.

Among high-end jadeite, the wood type makes people feel very artistic, giving people the feeling of snow flying down in the north. This piece of "Yanbo Jiangnan" is made with the technique of shallow relief. It retains the thickness of the raw material while outlining a beautiful scene like the Jiangnan water town. This scene can't help but make people feel emotional and fall in love with such jade and such scenery.

Finished jade snowflake cotton products were relatively rare in the past, but recently a large number of jade snowflake cotton works have come onto the market, indicating that the raw materials of jade snowflake cotton are very abundant. In addition to human attention factors, I believe this is also related to the excavation of specific mineral deposits, that is, there are pits that produce a large amount of high-quality jade snowflake cotton raw stones. The guarantee of quantity and quality will inevitably free snowflake cotton from the shackles and constraints of cotton and form an independent variety of jade. This will tend to make snowflake cotton a special term for jade, greatly enhancing the status and popularity of snowflake cotton.

Using the relief technique, the characters' expressions, movements and the dynamics of horses galloping are all portrayed realistically. In the distance, hills and pavilions are vaguely visible. In the near distance, Guan Yu is sitting high on his Red Hare horse, with a red face and beautiful beard. He looks back with his eyes slightly closed, leaping on his horse and holding his sword, walking on the clouds with an awe-inspiring demeanor.

The snow is light and the cotton is soft. Although snow will eventually leave no trace, there is no reason for the imagination about snowflake cotton to stop, as it will definitely leave an immortal mark.

Xiaoyaoyou, the work depicts a scene of a tree, an old man and a lonely boat. The boat is moored at a misty islet, and the guest is filled with new sorrow at dusk. The wilderness is vast and the trees are low under the sky; the river is clear and the moon is close to people.

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Happiness, longevity and happiness

The jade is moist and transparent, the color is light and soft, the card shape is oval, the lines are smooth, gentle and not stiff, and the shallow relief carving technique is exquisite. The bamboos in the picture are tall and straight, the green pines are winding and dense, and the dewdrops are nourishing the bamboo shoots; the most eye-catching thing is a Maitreya Buddha, with his breasts exposed, smiling, dancing, and holding an incense burner in his left hand with smoke curling up; the back is thinly carved with the phantom of the Buddha. The whole picture is harmonious and natural, giving people a sense of prosperity, happiness, longevity, health and joy. The whole is flawless, and the characteristic snowflake cotton can be seen.