China Jade Chinese

to 12. century BC) and Han Period (220 to 206 BC) have also been found during excavations

Beside of jadeite mainly nephrite

was used to create various common items and rather uncommon, such as burial suits. Well known Chinese jade mines such as in the Ningshao area, Yangtze Delta and other in Inner Mongolia are depleted since hundreds of years. At that time jade prices were higher than gold prices. In recent time (2011) jade prices are moving strong upwards since demand is high and

resources for jadeite more or less limited to north Myanmar. The highest prices are asked for excellent imperial jade with the right luster and color. There are great oriental jade creations such as jewelry and not only one Jade Buddha.

All jadeite defined as China Jade or Chinese Jade today is actually Burmese Jadeite. When it is shipped to China it becomes China Jade. This has some positive impacts in terms of creativity and workmanship since the  jade carver and creative people handling the stones are probably the best in there.

To answer the simple question what is jade becomes much more easy by looking at this jade pictures here. Some Chinese people tell jade is a living stone since over time it changes color but this is rather a myth and superstition, its a stone crafted into artwork from creative artists and it looks good and is precious in particular when it becomes a jade gold Buddha or jade jewelry, now what is jade.

After browsing our website no need to ask anymore "what is jade" since the

China jade pictures

are self explaining but it needs a creative artist to virtually breathing the soul into the stone. The modern jade carver use rather a drilling machine before any other tool since jade id very hard and because of this difficult to handle, its by no means as "soft" as marble or other stones.

Also the veins inside the stone which naturally are not seen from outside must be considered when creating the sculpture. For sculpturing white jade and lavender jade is often used because prices are in affordable ranges, good green jade is almost exclusively used for expensive jewelry, green and luster is also the hallmark of imperial jade.

China Jade is becoming increasingly expensive since the jade mountain for China Jade is exhausted and because of the increasing purchasing power of Chinese People more jadeite items are sold, actually the selling of jade jewelry grow by around 20% every year for the last 5 years in mainland China and that's not all. Chinese people are also everywhere in south east Asia and the demand for high quality. China jade jewelry such as jade pendant, jade bangles, jade earrings and jade necklace is growing continuously.

Chinese Jade Jewelry

Jade jewelry has a mystic aura among Chinese people, that's the reason why most of the item are sold to them. Ages ago the green stone was the favorite of the emperors, now everyone can afford it. This is definitely a fact since good jade bangles e.g. can be bought at Yangon Myanmar Bogyoke market already starting at $ 6,-.

Ok the grade is not the best, there are others for around $ 2000,- and more but it's natural jade, not treated and it looks not bad its just fine as a fashion