When you start to choose the stones that need polishing, put the stones in a suitable container, cover them completely with clear water and soak them for two or three days. The reason for this is to fully dissolve the floating soil on the stone and loosen the dirt attached to the surface.

Step 2: Brush your teeth.

After the stone is soaked, scrub the surface and crevices of the stone (steel brush is optional for hard stone, and nylon brush is best for soft stone), and then dip the stone in water to clean it.

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After soaking and brushing, the stone can be polished. This step must be patient. We should choose the corresponding grinding head according to the thickness of stone texture and polish it carefully in the order from coarse to fine.

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Classification of jade

1, Xiushan jade

Produced in Xiuyan County, Liaoning Province, named after it. The main component is bean green fiber serpentine, which is soft in texture and low in hardness. A variety of colors: light green, light yellow, fruit green, translucent or opaque body, fat luster on the surface.

2. Nanyang Valley

Also known as dushan jade. It is a kind of jade with complex composition and many minerals. Hard and delicate, the main components are plagioclase, zoisite, epidote, amphibole and diopside. Based on green, purple and white, it often presents various colors. Jade workers carve different objects according to natural colors, which is suitable for the "pretty color" process.

3. lantian jade

Lantian is produced in Lantian County, Xi City, Shaanxi Province, and has been famous for producing jade since ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a poem "Bitian Breathes Jade to Japan". Later, because the old mine dried up, mining stopped. At present, the jade mined in Lantian is serpentine diopside, opaque, yellow-green, dark green and emerald green.

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