Nowadays, Hetian jade can be described as a hundred flowers blooming and competing for spring. Among them, green jade and jasper show their strengths and have their own merits.
Some friends love jasper, while others prefer green jade. So, is it better to collect jasper or green jade?
First, let's talk about jasper. Jasper is known for its vibrancy and elegance. It comes in a wide range of colours, from deep dark green to subtle duck egg green, to fresh apple green and bright spinach green.
The most beautiful jasper is bright and bright, as the poet Qu Yuan said: "The green bamboo body is blue and the pond is dripping with exquisite translucent light." Even people who don't understand jade will be amazed.
Secondly, the jade quality of jasper is also excellent. In addition to its beautiful color, its texture is delicate and oily, especially the duck egg green, which is even more delicate than the seed material.
However, Qingyu also has its own advantages.
Among Hetian jade, green jade has the highest hardness, so it is also known as steel jade. It has a delicate and warm texture, a deep and pure color and a consistent jade color. Compared with jasper, the ** of green jade is more close to the people, and it can highlight the carving.
Green jade has a large block, which is very suitable for making large jade. To this day, many fine utensils and ornaments are still made of green jade. In addition, due to the densely interwoven structure of green jade, it has excellent toughness, making it the material of choice for thin-tire utensils.
Nowadays, many thin-tired jade objects are made of green jade, which is not only beautiful, but also can highlight the carving, which is difficult to achieve with other colors of jade.
In the green jade, there is a kind of sand jujube green, which has a unique color, showing a cyan slightly bluish hue. Its flesh is delicate and warm, with a uniform fat feel, and the structure is almost invisible to the naked eye, and the texture may not be visible even in the case of lighting.
Because of its extremely delicate and moist texture, it is called green lanolin by many players!
In addition, there are varieties in green jade that have reached the level of mutton fat. Since ancient times, successive feudal dynasties have chosen green jade as the carving material for the jade seal, so the "emperor's jade" has also become the title of "green jade" by jade experts!
As for which is more collectible, green jade or jasper, it cannot be generalized. The heterogeneity of jasper determines that jasper with fewer impurities is more valuable, so the **span of jasper is greater than that of green jade. However, in terms of collection value, it cannot simply be said that green jade is more valuable than jasper, nor can it be said that jasper is more valuable than Hetian green jade. After all, when it comes to materials, quality is the most important thing.
In the market, a lot of the green jade we see comes from Qinghai green jade (good Qinghai green jade is also very delicate), and jasper has many origins in addition to Hetian jasper seeds and Russian materials. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully identify the region in which they are produced when purchasing.
In fact, there is no such thing as good or bad jade, but people give it value according to their preferences and aesthetic tastes. Whether it's green jade or jasper, the most important thing is their quality and what we really love!