Jade carving is one of the oldest carving varieties in China. Jade is processed and carved into exquisite handicrafts, which is called jade carving. In the production process, craftsmen can make jade carvings into exquisite handicrafts according to the natural colors and shapes of different jade materials after careful design and repeated thinking.

Jade carving techniques in contemporary China are distributed in many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjiang, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Nanyang, Guangdong, Yunnan, Liaoning, Shaanxi and Qinghai.

Mainly made into jewelry, ornaments, toys, ornaments and so on. With the development of economy, wearing and appreciating jade carvings has become fashionable again in recent years, and with the price of jade materials rising year by year, exquisite jade articles are even more valuable.

According to the service platform of national arts and crafts industry, there are many kinds of jade carvings, mainly large-scale works such as figures, utensils, birds and animals, flowers, and small-scale works such as pins, rings, seals and ornaments. China's jade carving works enjoy a high reputation in the world. In 2008, jade carving was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Neolithic Age

During the simple jade carving period, Yangshao culture in Dahe village of Zhengzhou was 5,000 years ago, and two turquoise fish-shaped ornaments were unearthed. Crafts such as pine pendants, turquoise cicadas and frogs unearthed in xinyi city; Ornaments such as mirabilite, turquoise and agate were unearthed from Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan.

In Zhengzhou, there is a kind of concave carved bone ring with a series of patterns, which is the oldest and most perfect ring. There are many jade carvings, such as yufu, jade shovel and jade knife, mainly making tools; Jade wall, jade emperor, jade Jue and jade bead are simple in shape and mainly made of jade.

Jade Craft Period Shang Zhou Chun Qiu Warring States Period

There have been jade walls to worship heaven, jade cong to worship land, jade GUI handed down from ancient times, and Yu Pei knighthood. Yu Pei is the most popular. It is a kind of decorative jade that you can wear with you, and it is also a gift. There are many kinds unearthed from Hemudu site of Liangzhu culture in the late Neolithic period.

Jade Bird Pei, Man Shou Pei and Man Luo Pei appeared in Shang Dynasty. Jade yellow is a kind of bow jade. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it had beautiful shapes, such as Bai Yulong in the Spring and Autumn Period and the First Yellow in the Warring States Period.