Jet is a precious and rare natural resource, which is produced in Hotan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is heavy in color, greasy in quality, delicate in texture, dark, bright and lovely, and famous. Its hardness is about Mohs4o, and it is known as a precious material for processing inkstones and knives. The ancients called it "gem", which can be divided into diamonds, precious stones and colored stones.
Black jade refers to a valuable variety of Hetian jade in Xinjiang, which has the excellent quality of Hetian jade and is compact and moist. Among them, pure black jade is as black as ink, thick and greasy in color, delicate in texture, smooth and elegant.
Jet is a variety of Hetian jade. Although it is not as famous as white jade, it is also very precious because of its scarce output, low-key color and scarce market. In fact, jet with good quality is rich in color and greasy, and also has unique beauty, exquisiteness and preciousness.
There are many kinds of jet. Because it is naturally formed, the texture (commonly known as meat quality) of each jet is difficult to be the same. We can roughly divide it into four types:
A, jet white jade bottom
This kind of jade is a kind of jet, black and white are very distinct, the best with clear stripes, and some black and white are mixed together, which is inferior. Of course, the hardness, chromaticity, density, wettability (oiliness) and appearance of jadeite will all affect the value of jadeite.
There are also blue and white jade or mixed jade, collectively referred to as blue and white jade. Good blue and white jade is also valuable. There are few jet on the market, and the price is very expensive, and the market is out of stock, so we can't find similar jade.
Second, the end of jet and jade
According to customers, this kind of jade is commonly known as black jasper or turquoise jade. This kind of jade is unique in that it is black and blue in color under the irradiation of light or sunlight, which is very beautiful. It is also called color number difference, because the background color is jasper. If there are a lot of black ingredients, it is called black jasper. If blue is more than black, it is called turquoise. In fact, it belongs to the same kind of jade, and the names are divided according to the number of colors.
This jade is on the second or third floor of Yuan Qi Building, Dunhua South Road, Taipei. You can see that there are jasper counters, but the jasper they sell is Canadian jasper. Creative, I heard that it sells well, but the quality of Canadian jasper is not as good as Hetian jade. The biggest difference between Canadian Jasper and Tian Jasper lies in density and moisture. Hetian jade is moist, oily and feels good, while Canadian jasper is not moist and dry to the touch.
Third, Mo Yu Mo Di
This kind of jade is pure black inside and outside the whole jade. No other colors are mixed. Black jade is rare, and pure black jade like ours today is also very rare, so the sale of black jade is in grams.
Fourth, the Gobi Desert.
As the name implies, this kind of jade is produced in the Gobi desert and is also graded. But the particularity of Gobi jet lies in its hardness and density. After hundreds of millions of years of wind, frost, rain and snow, jade is very good, but Gobi jet is really hard to find, especially good Gobi jet, which is really hard to get, so good Gobi jet is expensive.
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One legend is that ...
A long time ago, one day, in the Qiao Shan area of Yang Pin County (now Fuping County), a fairy suddenly came. This fairy is not only graceful and beautiful, but also has some skills of Shi Chengyu.
Yang Pin County is a place with beautiful scenery. As soon as the fairy arrived in Yang Pin County, she was fascinated by the charming scenery here: Baling jathyapple, Baofeng Stone Man, Phoenix spreading its wings, golden millet morning bell, cave book sound, golden rooster crowing, golden turtle longevity and Longquan Waterfall flowing. Fairy can't swim all the time and can't see enough. Unconsciously fascinated by the beauty of the world, I never want to go back to the Heavenly Palace.
Every day, fairies enter the pine forest, play in streams, visit temples, climb dangerous peaks, float in the air, leave leisurely and freely. Really happy. Over time, people found that wherever the fairy rested, the stones turned into beautiful jade with bright paint and ink. Because the fairy is crazy about beautiful scenery and free life, she actually lives in Phoenix Mountain.
During the day, the fairy turned into a graceful rock and witnessed the endless beauty of the world. Become a fairy at night and sing and dance softly. Since the arrival of the fairy, Phoenix Mountain has suddenly become a place of singing and dancing, with birds singing and flowers fragrant, and the mountains are green and green, surpassing Suzhou and Hangzhou. Because of this, Tang Zhongzong chose Zhong Ling, a beautiful land of geomantic omen, as his graveyard.
Since the fairy came to Phoenix Mountain, all the stones on the mountain have become Baoyu. Masons have gone up the mountain to stone, chisel jade and carve statues. Their sculptures are lifelike, delicate and touching, black as paint, bright and clean, and many merchants come here. Wen Xun, Emperor of Han and Tang Dynasties, also used Fuping Moyu to build his own tomb. The black jade carving of Phoenix Mountain swept through Guanzhong and became famous all over the country.
At the foot of the Phoenix Mountain, there is a land owner Diao, who loves money like life and has a vicious heart. I heard that there lived a fairy who could recognize Shi Chengyu on the Phoenix Mountain. He thought: if you can bring the fairy home, won't all the hard stones in his house become beautiful jade? The more he thinks about it, the more beautiful it is. He tossed and turned until he didn't sleep a wink all night.
At dawn, he took the rope and hid it in the cave where the fairy lived. He stared at the eyes of two thieves like a mouse, waiting and waiting until the sun set and the fairy came back. The fairy took off her black veil, spread it on the slate, and slept with the clothes, trying to eliminate the fatigue of the day. Unexpectedly, just lying down, Diao Landlord suddenly jumped out of the darkness.
When the fairy found someone in the cave, she was surprised and flew out of the cave and floated away. In her hurry, the fairy forgot the black veil on the slate. When the naughty landlord saw the fairy escape, he chased her all the way. From Phoenix Mountain to Xinfushan Mountain, from Jinfu Mountain to Jinping Mountain, I chased and chased, panting, my legs were weak, and I couldn't run any longer, but I didn't even catch the shadow of the fairy.
Diao landlord's eyes turned, and he suddenly remembered the ink yarn left by the fairy in the hole and ran back desperately. When Diao landlord ran back to the cave, there was nothing in it.
It is said that this fairy is the niece of the Queen Mother. Mosha is a protective magic weapon given to my niece by the Queen Mother. This ink yarn has the ability to touch stones, that is, black, and Shi Chengyu. The queen mother heard that there were only four kinds of jade in the world, red, yellow, green and blue, and there was no jet, so she ordered her niece to come to the world to order jet to make up for it. Unexpectedly, I met this naughty landlord and left Mosha on the Phoenix Mountain.
After the fairy left, the ink yarn melted like snow and gradually infiltrated into the rock. Since then, the stones all over the mountain have become black as a mirror. Phoenix Mountain has also become the famous hometown of stone carving in China.
Reference materials? Baidu Encyclopedia-Moyu