dear friends, have you heard of chinese hetian jade before?  if not, please read this artical carefully!   i'm sure you must fall in love with this beautiful and silken kind of jade!

chinese hetian white jade is a very thing to collect for conserving value. during 20 years, white jade (hetian) stuff's price is up two thousand times.  in 2008 olympic games, the official medals made of metal (including gold, silver, copper) were inlaid with hetian jade. its price is up again.
  due to its producing area is Hetian,  located in the southwest of Xinjiang in Northwest China, we call it as hetian jade directly.

hetian jade is considered jade of highest grade for its fine quality, pure texture and color of mutton tallow. jewelry tributes to chinese emperors from xinjiang were mostly made of hetian jade. hetian jade can be classified into white, green, yellow and black,etc. and the white one is the most precious.  Among the various Hetian jade, Yangzhi(mutton fat) jade is considered the best of the white jade. Mutton-Fat Jade is the first-class item of Hetian-White-jade. It is very rare and only produced in Xinjiang. Its texture is pure and delicate. And its content of Toushan-Stones is nearly 99%. It is white and appears the reserved bright as coagulated grease. The same weight of jade material, the value of Hetian jade is many times of other jade. Han, Song, and Qianlong of Qing dynasty, people all very adore Mutton-Fat Jade.

as the chinese saying goes" gold has a value, jade is invaluable", jade is really special in chinese culture as it symboizes beauty, nobility, perfection, constancy, power, and immortality. jade is generally classified into soft jade(nephrite) and hard jade(jadeite). since china only had the soft jade until jadeite was imported from burma during the qing dynasty(1271-1368), jade traditionally refers to the soft jade so it is also called traditional jade.

Hetian jade has a history of more than 2,000 years, originating in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC). In ancient times, Hetian jade was transported into the Central Plains in batches and then engraved into all kinds of exquisite sacrificial vessels and jade ornaments. The Jade Clothes Sewn with Gold Threads unearthed in a Western Han Tomb in Heibei Province is made of 2,000-odd pieces of Hetian jade. Through the ages, Hetian jade had been considered a priceless treasure. we can see only high officials were buried with jade articles.
 

Chinese people believed jade had supernatural power. using jade wares and jade ornaments could resist invasion of evil influence and avoid evil apparitions and obtain safety and auspiciousness. in fact, pure hetian jade's material can assimilate energy emitted and take on a life of its own, protecting its wearer from misfortune and illness.

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