Mr Niu Bingyue once wrote in "The History of Emerald" that "there were emeralds in Zhou Dynasty and emeralds in Han Dynasty. ... but until the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was still a rare treasure ... Jade was popular in China, which was a matter of the Qing Dynasty. " Through the analysis of this authoritative historian, it can be confirmed that the history of jadeite has been many years, and it was about the middle of Qing Dynasty that jadeite entered China.
It is said that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Myanmar government set up a special jade mining department to hand over all the high-quality jadeites to the king, while the medium or low-quality jadeites were mainly sold to Yunnan businessmen. Businessmen valued the prosperity of the capital at that time and shipped it to the capital in batches. At the foot of the son of heaven, it is a place where dignitaries gather. Their nobles like to compare and talk about ostentation and extravagance. The emergence of jade just catered to the needs of those people, and the jade industry began to flourish.
The progress of jadeite in production technology and the constant change of design style can be roughly divided into three periods: in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, jadeite was mainly inlaid with jadeite and precious metals, while sculpture was mainly embossed, and the jadeite style in this period was relatively simple. From the early 20th century to the 1970s, with the cultural exchange between China and the West, jadeite carving became more and more elaborate, and more complicated jadeite was favored.
From the 1970s to the present, the design of jadeite is more personalized and refined, that is, combining traditional culture with the design of jadeite at home and abroad. At this time, people's understanding of jadeite is not limited to green, and more jadeite varieties are gradually accepted by people, such as old pit species, oil clear species and so on ~