Green Jadeite
Green Jadeite
Jade - The Gemstone Of Asian Royalty
Jade has had a special place in the long and rich history of Chinese art and culture. In many ways, the reverence for jade demonstrated by the Chinese and other Asian cultures rivals the West's obsession with gold and diamonds! Throughout Asia, jade was known as the gemstone of royalty. It was worn by kings and noble families, and was even placed in their tombs after their deaths. It was believed that jade would protect them in the afterlife, and prevent their bodies from decaying. In time, the legends grew, and jade came to be accepted as the royal gemstone with magical powers. In order to truly grasp the emotions and sentiments that Asians attach to this gem, one must spend time in the jade market of Hong Kong, or at the more upscale Christie's House jade auctions that are organized from time to time. Ancient civilizations were first attracted by the hardness and durability of jade, and used it to fashion crude tools, implements, and weapons. It was only later that jade was seen as an ornamental material that could be used to fashion jewelry, figurines, and vessels. When used in jewelry, jade is cut in to cabochons and beads. It is frequently used to make sterling silver pendants, earrings, and necklaces. Outside the world of fashion jewelry, artists use this material to carve out intricate sculptures and figures. The clear, emerald green stone is the most valued. Over the years, the large variety in color and patterns exhibited by this stone have made it a popular gemstone with jewelry designers.
During the second half of the 19th century, mineralogists discovered that jade was not a unique mineral! Since then, two minerals – jadeite and nephrite have both been recognized as jade. Both stones are quite hard and take a good polish, making them ideal gemstones for fashion jewelry of today. Jadeite has small, interlocking crystals. This crystalline structure gives jadeite a high degree of toughness and hardness. Jadeite is often found in hues of green, white, pink, reds, black, brown and violet. These colors make for a good combination as accent beads in a cultured pearl necklace. From the point of view of a chemist, jadeite is a metasilicate of iron, calcium, and magnesium. Other impurities are found in minor quantities, making subtle changes to the characteristics of the mineral. For example the presence of iron or chromium gives jadeite a green color. Although similar in appearance to jadeite, nephrite is quite different from jadeite. For one, nephrite is harder and tougher than jadeite. Green is the most common color for nephrite, although the mineral can occur in almost any color. Today, Canada is the chief producer to gem-quality nephrite. A large deposit of nephrite is also being exploited in southern Wyoming in the United States. Other countries producing jade include Burma, Central America, Brazil, Canada, Japan, India, Siberia, Finland, and Tanzania.
About the Author
As a geologist, Dale has a natural interest in gems and their geological origins. He is also a fan of high-tech where he has authored pieces on cheap MP3 players, cell phones, and other items of general consumer interest.
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The Jade Comes Into Fashion
It is said that in the early 13th century, a Yunan salt merchant carried a stone from Myanmar. The green lucent stone conquered Chinese people who love jade instantly. This stone is the jade, because it has beautiful color, rare production, vitreous luster, moisture texture, more toughness and hardness, it was called “jadeite”, also known as the “king of jade”.
The origin of most jade is in the undeveloped mountainous areas, although there can not see ghosts and demons, wolves and tigers ,when deep in the mountains, often can not see the sunshine, in the boundless forest, only the path which the jade seeker went pass; The fog dew river, the billowing muddy stream, on the summer day in the thunderstorm weather, soaks raise on the water surface everywhere, the smoke rise continuously, when the smoke rise three feet high, it doesn’t disperse, the human in boat can’t see the five fingers, as if entering a five miles fog. Except the malaria smoke, mosquito and python, the environment is very bad, in addition, the tool is primitive, the dry season is very short, the commodity lacks, so the jade mining is very difficult.
Until the 18th century, with the development of the science and technology, the jade only then entered the Chinese Yunnan massively. Although the jade from introduction to application was only 300~400 years, because the people who love jade entrusted jade with mysterious cultural connotation, its short and splendid history made other jades envy sufficiently, and with other jades constituted the Chinese nation continuity of jade culture. The Ming Dynasty, the Burmese jade appeared in our country; Qing Dynasty, because affection of nobility (especially the Qing Dynasty emperor Qianlong canonized and empress dowager Cixi hobby love), it was called " the imperial jade ".
From then on the jade price increased greatly, became the best quality goods in the jadeite. The jade linked closely with people's life, in people’s mind, it is not only a beautiful stone, but also has the mystical belief and attaches the request. Both the ancient and the modern people like jade, happy about jade, playing jade, “the gentleman for no reason, the jade does not leave the body”. Presently the jade is the most popular with Chinese and South Korean, wearing jade and loving jade becomes one kind of modern fashion.
About the Author
sharon,Ayong Culture Development Co.,Ltd.
We engaged in handmade jewelry
andfashion jewelry .