A piece of jadeite stone is worth ten thousand times more after being carved by a master

This is the work "Transformation into a Butterfly" by jade carving master Wang Junyi, which won the Special Award at the first Paris Louvre East-West Art Annual Exhibition at the "East-West Art Exchange Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and France".

The award-winning jade carving work "Transformation into a Butterfly" is only the size of a palm and is carved from a piece of jade with skin. The artist skillfully carved the yellow stone skin into butterfly wings, and removed the flaws on the original stone by making hollow carvings, revealing the butterfly's emerald green body. Wang Junyi introduced that the original stone used to carve this work was just an ordinary jade material worth tens of thousands of yuan, but after being processed by the artist, the value of this work has changed dramatically. Five years ago, a Taiwanese collector offered 35 million yuan for it!

As the saying goes, "jade cannot be made into a useful object without being carved." The legendary jade carving master disagrees with the saying that "good jade does not need to be carved." In his opinion, this is because most people nowadays do not know how to carve, and it is better not to carve after carving. This is a common phenomenon in the jade industry today. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "good jade does not require a knife". Its market price is often several times or even hundreds of times that of a carving, but this depends on its perfection and exquisiteness. "For general jade materials, it is misleading to say that good jade should not be carved," said Wang Junyi. The ancients said that "jade cannot be made into a useful object without being carved." "Use" is an adjective for value. This sentence means that jade must be carved and polished to become tangible and to carry the soul of culture and art. The object of carving may also be jade with serious defects such as pulp and cracks. Although it has defects, the true value of the jade can only be reflected after carving adds artistic added value to the original value of the jade.

The following is the creation process of "Butterfly"

The value of jade lies in its spirituality and emotion, but now jadeite, Huanglong jade and Hetian jade have become a kind of financial currency. Many contemporary collectors only emphasize their scarcity and lose the charm of jade itself. Nowadays, some collectors blindly pursue the quality of raw materials, but ignore the quality of carving and the cultural connotation of design. As a collection, it must have certain collection value, profound cultural connotation, exquisite artistic expression, and superb carving skills. When collecting contemporary jade carvings, one must first distinguish between commodities and works of art. Commodities are mass consumer products that can be reproducibly produced and do not have an artistic soul, whereas a good work of art reflects the maker’s cultural knowledge, artistic accomplishment, and carving skills. “What we should collect is human wisdom, not the value of the material itself.”

Good jade materials need to be carved by masters. In the past two years, Meiyu Chuanqi has taken on a lot of carvings. Many players have asked jade carving masters to carve their jade or the yellow wax stone they collected. Jade carving requires applying art in accordance with the material and achieving the unity of man and nature. Different carving methods should be selected according to different materials to express the potential cultural connotations of jade. However, due to the advancement of modern tools, the carving time has been greatly shortened. The jade carver does not have time to quietly polish the jade, resulting in a lot of materials being damaged, which makes him very sad. However, in recent years, as the price of jade has continued to rise, many good jade materials have been sold at sky-high prices, resulting in a situation where the jade industry has no demand for jade. This is bad news for most collectors, but in Wang Junyi's view, this situation also has a good side. "The more expensive the materials are, the fewer people will carve them randomly. No one paid attention to design and art before, but now more and more people are beginning to pay attention to this and believe that good jade materials should be carved by masters."

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