If I wear jade for a long time, will the cotton inside it dissolve? Let's talk about the evolution of jade

Friends who like jade may often hear such words: jade will become better the more you wear it, and the cotton of jade will dissolve by itself after wearing for a long time. But I also hear many people say that it is possible for jade to become brighter the more it is worn, but it is impossible for its water quality to become better the more it is worn. It is a joke to say that the water quality of jade will become better the more it is worn!

A friend also asked me, she said, it is often said that jadeite of poor quality will mutate and become worse, then why can’t jadeite of good quality become better and evolve? Maybe some friends will think her question is cute, but there are indeed many friends who can’t figure out whether jadeite can get better with wear.

We often say that poor quality jade is prone to mutation due to its loose internal structure, which leads to the deterioration of the jade. As for jadeite of good quality, many friends will find that after wearing it for a long time, it becomes more moist and more translucent than before. Many friends think that doesn’t this mean that the quality of the jadeite has improved?

In fact, the fact that jade becomes smoother with wear does not mean that the quality of jade has improved. I have said before that the quality of jade cannot get better with wear. But if you ask me whether jade will continue to evolve, I would say yes. Jade is actually always changing. Even if it leaves the environment in which it was formed, it will continue to change.

This change includes two possibilities: getting worse and getting better. When the internal structure of jade is not very good, the process of deterioration will occur quickly. When its internal structure is good, it may become worse or better, and this possibility is very long and we basically cannot see it in our lifetime. Therefore, in our limited life, we can see variants of jadeite with poor quality, but we cannot see variants of jadeite with good quality.

To give an analogy, just like how we humans evolved from apes to what we are today, we now see ourselves as handsome men and beautiful women, but a long, long time ago, we all had the faces of monkeys and gorillas. We have also evolved over a long period of time. And now, are we no longer changing?

I think my friends all know that we are actually constantly changing. For example, some babies who looked very good when they were young become uglier as they grow older, while some babies who didn’t look very good when they were young become more and more beautiful as they grow older. For example, two people may not look alike originally, but after they get married, over time we will feel that they look more and more alike, which is what we often call the couple look alike.

These are all changes that we can see, but what are the changes that we cannot see? It is that our internal genes are actually evolving as well. Even if the changes are very small and slow, compared to hundreds of years ago, our genes are indeed evolving and will continue to evolve in the future. It’s just that this process is basically invisible to us in our lifetime. Maybe a few hundred years later, people at that time will think that we are ugly now, just like we think that people in the Qing Dynasty were ugly.

So the same principle applies to jadeite. In fact, it is also changing all the time. However, if it is a bad quality jadeite, the changing process will be faster and more obvious. For a good quality jade, the change process will take a very long time, perhaps hundreds or thousands of years before obvious differences appear.

Therefore, what we often say that the longer jade is worn, the better its quality will be is impossible. This statement is actually correct, because we cannot see it getting better in our lifetime. And if you really want to ask whether jade will change, I have to tell you that it will change. In fact, just like many other things, every object is actually changing slowly, just like children are growing up and we are getting older. Just like the global temperature is changing, the glaciers and oceans are melting, and many animals are evolving and many animals are becoming extinct.

In fact, to put it bluntly, everything in the world is changing. It is not a profound knowledge. It is just whether we can see it or not, and whether we can witness this change or not. Therefore, we don’t need to worry too much about whether the quality of jade will improve the longer it is worn. As long as you like it and it does not change during your lifetime, that’s enough.

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