Come to Sihui City, Guangdong Province to get the goods. Sihui City is the hometown of jade in China and the jade processing base in China. Sihui's jade market is well-known, mainly because the jade market in this city has complete varieties and diverse styles, which can produce and process low, medium and high-grade products. The jade here mainly includes ornaments, playthings, pendants and ornaments. Traditional figures, beauties of past dynasties, Guanyin, Buddha statues and other decorations; Flower, flower, bird, insect, fish and other animal pendants; Jade bracelets, jade buckles, jade beads, denier noodles, mesons, apricot hearts and other ornaments. Sihuiyu's products are not only complete in variety, but also exquisite in craftsmanship, reaching the leading level in China. Excellent jade carving works emerge one after another, such as the hero's long companion, the birthday of the Eight Immortals, the gift of peaches by monkeys, the fortune of five sons, and the lotus sitting by Guanyin. , become jade carving treasures, meet the needs of different businesses. There is a kind of wine glass made of jade, which is not only beautiful in appearance, but also has the function of beautifying wine, which can change the structure of wine and make it mellow, sweet, soft and palatable. In William Wang's Liangzhou Ci, there is a poem "The wine glass glows", which is this kind of wine glass.

The jade processing in Sihui has a long history. As early as the late 1950s, the government encouraged and guided the establishment of a number of jade processing plants. Subsequently, the team engaged in jade processing gradually grew. In the early 1970s, faced with the situation that there were many processing employees and weak organizational strength in sihui jade, the government set up Sihui Craft Factory to recruit a group of old folk jade carving artists and more than 200 young men and women who mastered basic carving skills to form technical backbones, and to recruit apprentices to develop freely. At the same time, the factory learns from each other through technical backbones, and promotes each other. The technical level of jade carving has been greatly improved, from low-grade products that can only be processed to high-grade handicrafts designed and performed according to their materials. Sihui Craft Factory once became a famous jade carving craft factory in the whole province. Since the reform and opening up, facing the booming jade processing industry, the city has built a jade street with a length of more than 3,000 meters and more than 600 sales shops. The larger "sihui jade City"; A specialized big market, skylight market. The Sihui Jade Chamber of Commerce was also established to gradually guide the jade industry to develop in the direction of marketization, scale and industrialization.

Sihui City is located in the west of central Guangdong Province, on the northwest edge of the Pearl River Delta, and downstream of the three rivers of west, north and Guangzhou. Bordering Qingxin, Sanshui, Guangning and Dinghu District. In the thirty-third year of Qin Shihuang (2 14 BC), the county was established. It is said that this county is named "Sihui" because it is a place where four rivers flow. Vast territory. After more than 2,000 years of changes, although the territory has been shrinking, the name of the Sihui has never changed. 1993165438+10 was directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong province and managed by Zhaoqing city.