The growth environment and climate are humid, and natural jade is also very moist, so it is called "water-based gem". Jade is mild, oily and sticky, suitable for carving and cutting, and practical.
Yanyuan jade is famous for its color, and the most brilliant thing is its rich and varied colors.
The characteristics of Yanyuan jade can be summarized into three points: First, Yanyuan material is fine and hard, oily and tough, and its superior products are as delicate and moist as Hetian jade, with dense structure and fine particles, which is very suitable for carving.
Secondly, the hardness reaches Mohs hardness of 7.
Good toughness and hardness ensure that the carving of salt source materials is not easy to collapse, thus making fine work possible.
Third, rich colors.
The color density of salt source material is usually not enough, but it has many colors, such as red, purple, pink, green, yellow and so on. , colorful, the general colors are light red, light purple, light green and so on. It fills the shortcoming of single color of mainstream jade.
Some salt source materials can have four or five colors on a piece of material, and the colorful meat is evenly distributed, and there is no obvious boundary between different colors, so they are mutually soluble and transitional.