What is red-purple jadeite also called?

Today, let's talk about the classification of red and purple jadeite.

1. Classification of jade red. Red is commonly known as "jade" and can be divided into three types: bright red is the best quality red; dark red is mostly the edge of the original stone; brownish red is red with brown and many impurities, which is the inferior quality.

(1) Bright red: also called “crown red”. This is the best quality red jadeite, and its color may be caused by cobalt.

(2) Dark red: It is often caused by the oxidation of Fe⊃2;+ to Fe⊃3;+, and is often distributed close to the edge of the original stone.

(3) Brown-red: It is produced at the edge of the original stone. It is iron-stained due to weathering and leaching. It has a lot of brown impurities and is mostly the inferior quality among red jadeite.

Bright red jadeite is rare, hard to come by and extremely expensive. Sotheby's auction once sold an excellent bright red jadeite carving for a whopping HK$3.8 million. However, brown-red and dark-red jadeite has high production and is not popular due to color difference. The price is extremely low and can be purchased for a few yuan to a few hundred yuan.

The color of red jadeite is a secondary color, distributed under the weathered surface or along the cracks of the jadeite raw stone. It is a color formed by the impregnation of iron minerals and is produced in the old field area and Damakan field area in Myanmar.

Yellow jade is also a color formed by secondary effects, often distributed below the weathered surface layer, and above the red layer, it is caused by limonite impregnation. The yellow color is impure and often brown. It has a large yield and is not popular among people. The price is extremely low and can be bought for a few yuan to dozens of yuan. But the price of pure color is also higher.

In recent years, women have been very fond of red jadeite bracelets, and believe that only those with both red and green colors can be called "real" jadeite bracelets.

According to the saturation and color purity of red, the red color of jade is divided into 5 levels: five-point color, four-point color, three-point color, two-point color, and one-point color.

2. Classification of jade purple. Purple jade is of violet jade quality, and this color is called spring color in the industry. Purple is formed in places with good jade texture and has a certain degree of transparency. Its color is like peach, and is called bright peach blossom spring. This is the best quality, and light peach blossom spring is second best.

The purple-red ones that look like the skin of eggplant are called eggplant spring, and there are also bright eggplant spring and light eggplant spring. The pink and purple color is like soaked lotus root powder, and the spring color refers to the light spring and other colors in the jade flesh.

Combination of colors: Green, red and purple appearing on a jade piece is called Fu Lu Shou, or "tricolor" for short. The appearance of four colors means fortune, wealth, longevity and happiness, referred to as "four happinesses"; the appearance of no color means five blessings, referred to as "five blessings".

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