How do you identify jadeite?

Regarding jadeite, as consumers, in addition to being concerned about the price of jadeite, they also care about the authenticity of jadeite. After all, the current jade market is full of mixed goods and fakes are rampant. Even experts may be "caught" if they are not careful. What about ordinary consumers?

Since the jade market is so chaotic, is it really impossible to buy jade in the jade market? Of course not. Although there are many fakes in the jade market, there are also many merchants who do business honestly (such as Lao Zhao, haha), and there are still many genuine products, as long as you have a pair of discerning eyes to identify them.

Many people love jade, but are afraid of buying fakes. How many methods do you know to identify jade? Here are a few unreliable identification methods.

For example, the hair-wrapped and fire method: wrap the hair around jade and burn it with fire. If the hair does not break, it means the jade is real. If the hair breaks, it is fake. Then I tried wrapping my hair around the glass, but it didn't burn either. So this method is not reliable at all.

Another method is the sound knocking method: hang the jade with a rope and knock on it gently. If you hear a crisp sound, it is real, but if it is a dull sound, it is fake. If you want to distinguish the authenticity of jade by listening to the sound, it takes decades of experience and only experienced people can hear the subtle differences, so it is not reliable for novices.

The third one is the cool hand feel method: put the jade on your hand, if it feels cool, then it is natural jade. What if everything feels cold in winter? If it were made of glass, wouldn't it be chilling? So these methods are not reliable at all. Next, Lao Zhao will talk about several identification methods used by people in the industry.

Look at the gloss: From the gloss point of view, natural jade has glassy gloss, and it looks bright, clear, and lively to the naked eye. However, the surface of jade that has been processed by glue injection and bleaching (B and C goods, etc.) is resin gloss, which is dull and even waxy, and has no rigidity! "Glass luster" is one of the basic identification methods of jadeite by naked eye.

Tips for identifying jadeite luster:

When looking at it, shake the jade up and down and left and right to see the uniformity of the jade's color and the intensity of the reflected light.

But there is a kind of Guatemalan jade, which is natural glass. It is not easy to see through the luster.

As the old saying goes, laymen judge by color, while experts judge by type. It is to look at the structure of jadeite and the jadeite properties of jadeite, which is what we often call fly wings. This is an important sign of natural jadeite and is very commonly used by experts to identify it with the naked eye. That is, there will be dot-shaped or flake-shaped flashes inside or on the surface of the jade, which look like fly wings.

We have to look at the color of jade. Jade has many colorful colors. How about we use the naked eye to identify jade? The color of natural jade is uneven, and there are color roots, especially green jade, which is more precious. Its color will be in the form of dots and strips. The darker color (such as green) will slowly transition to relatively lighter color. This kind of darker color is called color root. People say that where there is color, there must be a color root. This is also an important method to identify jade.

The identification method is to shake the jade up and down and left and right to see if the color inside the jade is uneven in depth. Then, the green color is the bright color and the transition between light and dark colors is very obvious. The darker color (such as green) slowly transitions to a relatively lighter color. If the color appears out of thin air, be careful.

That is our trump card, look at the appraisal certificate. First of all, you have to see whether the appraisal result is A-grade jadeite. If it is A-grade jadeite, it will be followed by words such as jadeite handle, jadeite pendant, jadeite bracelet, etc. If the appraisal is not A-grade, it will say optimized jadeite bracelet, etc.

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