Premise: As personal consumption, the most important thing is actually the budget of the buyer. The perfect bracelet should have perfect economic strength. For us ordinary people, cost performance is not the most important. What is important is to reflect our economic strength, cost performance and aesthetic orientation suitable for our consumption power. With the economic budget, you can use the selection skills accordingly and find the bracelet that suits you. In a word, you can't spend 1000 yuan to buy something with 5000 yuan. In front of the sellers, we are all vegetables, and they can hardly sell them wrong. We just bought the wrong one. The original intention of this article is to minimize the probability of buying the wrong one.
I. Whether there are cracks:-None.
This is very important and simple. Needless to say, you need to be selective when buying. My principle is not to have transverse cracks; If you encounter rare clarity, richness and color, short and shallow longitudinal cracks, and the price is right, you can consider it next time, otherwise you will give up resolutely. -Principle: No damage or crack.
Second, richness:
Generally speaking, it is the fineness and gloss of the material; This is the first consideration when I choose a bracelet, except for cracks. A good jasper bracelet is extremely delicate in texture, almost invisible when it is transparent, slightly transparent in natural light, thin and waxy when it is transparent, excessively natural and even, bright, flat and convergent in surface luster, and extremely moist to use. Its performance is oil permeability (similar to the light transmittance of white jade seed material); The second thing is that water is transparent, and the transmitted light is bright (similar to the transmission of white jade and blue sea materials); Once again, it is almost opaque (similar to the reflection of porcelain).
Permeable and almost impermeable materials are of low value, so it is better to give them up because there is a lot of room for market choice. At the same price, if you discard the color and have more impurities, you can still choose a fine glutinous material. Unless the permeable material is pure (I have never seen this material), the visual effect is not good, because the permeable impurities are obvious inside and outside; If jade is close to opaque, it looks rigid and has no aura. Personally, such things are meaningless.
When it comes to richness, we have to say the characteristics of the source of the material. In addition to the same advantages of superior materials from different producing areas, an important distinguishing sign is richness. Like mountain materials, Manas is dry, stuffy and oily.
Principle: delicate-oily-slightly transparent
Third, the color:
Spinach green is Jasper's first choice, so what is spinach green? Even if you buy jasper with a basket of spinach, the color of each spinach leaf is different. There are old spinach green and young spinach green. Personally, I prefer the old spinach green with a transparent dark green background, which is close to the figure 1. This color feels steady and is suitable for long-term wear. The green color of tender spinach is also very beautiful, and beautiful women wear it very pleasing to the eye, that is to say, they should pay attention to matching their age. Generally speaking, dark jade bracelets are suitable for all ladies to choose, and can show a calm, sophisticated, rich and quaint charm. Light-colored jade bracelets are more suitable for young ladies. Its color is elegant, which is more in line with the vitality and skin color of young people. In addition, it should be noted that the color should match your skin color, and people with darker skin color should not choose light-colored bracelets and white jade bracelets to avoid darker skin color; Whiter people can choose bracelets of various colors.
Pure bracelets like the one above are hard to find, and the price is either small five or medium five or above.
We often see the following pictures in our lives. These pictures are all from online Taobao shops, and the prices range from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan.
A casual search shows that jasper is extremely rich in color. The above pictures can be roughly divided into flashing black, flashing blue, flashing yellow and variegated colors; There are few uniform solid colors in the market, and the common ones are variegated colors, which are characterized by uneven colors, large color jumps and unnatural varieties;
Some colors also have regional characteristics, such as Manas color jump (mostly gray-green, mixed with dotted and striped white spots); Add green evenly, tender; Obi's color is even, mature and ancient.
Principle: Old spinach is green-uniform-natural transition-with small color jump.
Four. Impurities:
In addition to all the impurities of white jade, such as cotton, hardness, crack, wet, dirty, flowers and waterline, Jasper also has its own unique impurities, such as black spots, black blocks, trachoma and so-called cat's eye lines, as well as Gabriel's crystallizing point and so on. Cotton, hard, cracked, wet, dirty, flowers and waterline are not mentioned here. You can refer to buying white jade. Here are mainly black spots, black patches, trachoma, the so-called cat's eye line and Gabrielle's unique crystallizing point.
Black spots, black patches and trachoma are common in all jasper. As we all know, we should choose the one with fewer black spots when shopping. For the same price, we prefer the material with black spots, which can't be seen without lighting, followed by the inner ring. The principle is to choose the one with the least black spots on the surface after wearing. The bad choice is, if the black spots on the surface of one bracelet are scattered and the other is massive, which one should I choose? My principle is to wear it on my hand and turn it around to see the effect. If the vision sees fewer color jumps, it will choose that one. Generally, I will choose the one with black blocks, because at the same price, other parts with black blocks will be relatively pure, and the dark green next to the black blocks is often accompanied by thick dark green. This dark green is produced from green to black, which looks natural, otherwise the price will definitely be different; Trachoma often appears on black spots and blocks, so attention should be paid when choosing. If the choice is large, of course, it should be avoided. If you like it, the price is right and trachoma is acceptable.
What we should pay attention to here is the difference between trachoma and Canadian Jasper crystallizing point. Similarly, the surface looks like white spots, but trachoma is a little white because it is not polished properly. It is concave, and it can't be seen after a long time or with wax, water and oil, while Gabriel's crystals are similar to frozen spots and have a smooth surface. -Principle: The less impurities, the better. Black, stiff, cotton and flowers are not suitable for waterline; Choose black instead of stiff, cotton and flowers;
As shown in the figure:
Verb (short for verb) style:
Try to choose a plain bracelet without carving, gold plating, gold painting and other processes; Such as: blessing bracelet, peace bracelet, princess bracelet, etc. 90% of handcrafted bracelets are borrowed from big defects in materials.
Bracelet: indicates that the inner ring is round, the outer ring is round and the bar is round. Because it pays attention to roundness, it is called a blessing bracelet. This kind of bracelet is very classic and has been around for a long time. It is exquisite, round, heavy, solemn and straight.
Ping 'an bracelet: the inner ring is round, the outer ring is round, and the bars range from bow to semicircle. Because the inner ring is smooth, it is called peace bracelet, which is the style of more than 90% bracelets in the world now, especially in recent years.
Princess bracelet: the outer circle is flat, the whole is oval, and the strips range from bow to round. The processing technology is slightly complicated, mainly due to the high labor cost.
Six, size:
Be sure to match your arms, and choose a wider and looser bracelet for those with thick wrists. Choose a narrower bracelet for those with thinner wrists. Of course, we should also pay attention to the ratio of inner ring, strip width and strip diameter. The principle is: the ring mouth is small and the strip should be correspondingly thin; The bigger the circle, the thicker the sliver. For example, the inner diameter of the coil is 50 mm ~ 55 mm, the strip diameter is 6 mm ~ 8 mm, and the strip width is 12 mm ~ 18 mm, which is more comfortable to look at. The inner diameter of the ring mouth is 56 mm ~ 65 mm, the diameter of the strip is 8 mm ~ 10 mm, and the width of the strip is15 mm ~ 22 mm.
The principle of wearing is: add lubricant to your hands or put on a plastic bag, and put it on with a little force; If it is too small to wear, it will affect your range of action. If the inner ring is too big, you will habitually open your fingers in your daily life to prevent the bracelet from falling off. After a long time, it will consciously or unconsciously become the chicken ribs at the bottom of the wardrobe; Early bracelets were mostly worn by pampered ladies, which had three functions: first, they were beautiful and could make women look more beautiful and moving; Secondly, they are symbols of status and wealth. In the past, women who wore expensive jade bracelets often did not do housework, because housework often damaged the bracelet; The third is to cultivate dignified and elegant behavior habits. In order to avoid embarrassment when buying bracelets for their families, early men generally preferred the big ones to the small ones, so the cuffs of bracelets were bigger than the wrists, which played an auxiliary role. In order to prevent your bracelet from falling off your hand, the wearer's behavior naturally becomes soothing, thus making the wearer look more gentle and antique. In modern society, few women are served every day. Even if they are served every day, they will exercise for their health. . . . . . At the same time, if you are as slow and gentle as an ancient woman, it is inevitable that someone will accuse you of being melodramatic. But if you work, exercise and socialize faster, drink more and exert more force, the bracelet will fly out, so it's best not to make do with the size of the bracelet.
As for the market price of Jasper bracelets, first of all, we need to know the market price of raw materials before we can evaluate them in combination with the specific physical quality. I feel worthy of my conscience.
Seven, easy to confuse or forge the logo:
Look at the pictures first to see how many are Hetian jade and Jasper Dongdong. The picture comes from the internet, which makes me a little deformed. Let's make do. Fortunately, the characteristics are still there. ?
If your answer is that none of the above things are hetian jade, then you don't have to look at the following things, because you are right; ?
They include Taiwan jade, Dongling stone, Mi language, Xiuyu jade, dushan jade, lantian jade and so on.
For example: Jade in Taiwan Province Province:
Glass luster, refractive index about 1.55, density about 2.5-2.7, dense, delicate, tough, bright and clean, all kinds of green, the price of bracelets and necklaces should not exceed that of 30 yuan; The jewelry appraisal department can issue a certificate of "Quartzite Jade". Some costs are less than 10 yuan, and the highest wholesale price will not exceed 100 yuan. ?
By the way, jade has a jade culture, and wearing bracelets is also exquisite. Of course, if you don't agree, you can wear whatever you want. If you agree, you must follow some established rules.
When wearing bracelets, there is no strict limit on the number of bracelets. You can wear one, two, three or even more bracelets. If you only wear one, you should wear it on your left hand instead of your right hand; If you wear two, you can wear one for your left and right hands, or both for your left hand; If you wear three, you should wear them all on your left hand. You can't wear one in one hand and two in the other. Rarely wear more than three bracelets. Even if you want to wear it, you should wear it on your left hand, creating a strong sense of imbalance and achieving the purpose of unconventional and distinctive. But what needs to be pointed out here is that this imbalance should be achieved by matching with the clothes worn, otherwise it will destroy the decorative beauty of the bracelet because it is unconventional.
Eight. A brief introduction to the origin and occurrence
First of all, I must declare that my view is that playing jade is the quality of Hetian jade, not the place of origin and occurrence; As long as the jade is delicate, pure, oily and vigorous, it is a good thing at the collection level no matter where it is produced or how it occurs.
The jade qualities of Hetian jade and Hetian white jade are completely different in everyone's mind. If white jade is sorted by occurrence, it is seed material-mountain material; By origin: Hotan material-Russian material-Qinghai material-North Korea material;
Jasper is completely different, according to the occurrence: mountain material-landscape-seed material;
Jasper by origin: Obi-Gabi above -3A- New Zealand Bibi-Hotan Seed-Manas Jasper;
One of the main reasons for this classification is based on the possibility of producing high-quality jasper products that we often see in the market. There is a legendary top-notch, but I have never seen it, and what I have seen is not so good, so I put it behind; For example, the jade quality of Baiyuli mountain material is much better than that of seed material, but high-quality seed material is common, so it ranks first; So is Jasper. There are many kinds of jasper seeds that are better than mountain materials, but there are very few jasper and Tianyu seeds that can be made into ornaments, pendants, handles or bracelets without black spots or even fewer black spots. The ranking here is only the approximate ratio of yield and quality rate, so put the seed material at the end. If Hetian jade seeds can produce flawless bracelets, it must be in the first place, but I have played Hetian jade for nearly 20 years and have never seen it so far.
Everyone knows it happened, so here is a brief introduction to its origin:
Jasper produced in Xinjiang: Jasper produced in Xinjiang is mainly produced by Manas Jasper Mine. Manas Jasper has both seed materials, mountain materials and some mountains and rivers. In view of the characteristics of Jasper itself, most of Jasper-based works are artifacts, and the ages are mostly concentrated in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Because there are too many black spots, too many color jumps, and the jade quality is not very good, and there are few jewelry-grade jewelry, the quality of Manas jasper jewelry we can see in the market is almost not high.
Qinghai Jasper: Around 2000, a batch of seed jasper was found in the river steps of Mangya area on the Qinghai-Tibet border in China. This batch of jasper seed material has good roundness and large volume, and its weight ranges from ten kilograms to several tons. Jasper is characterized by skin thickness of several centimeters to more than ten centimeters, and there is a clear boundary between skin color and meat quality. Mangya jasper is gray-green, with black spots and few cracks. Because the color is gray-green, high-quality chunks are mostly used to make utensils, and the price of small pieces is not high.
Jasper from Canada: It is mainly produced in the mountains north of Vancouver, Canada. Jewelry-grade Canadian jasper is very good (AAA or above), which is the favorite of Empress Dowager Cixi in Qing Dynasty. Compared with Manas jade in Xinjiang, it is more uniform in texture, large in volume and bright in color. Compared with Qinghai jade, it is bright in color and transparent in texture. It is said that from 1980s to 1990s, China imported several hundred tons of Canadian jasper from Canada, with 4 to 5 tons per ton. Beijing, Yangzhou, Henan and other places have processed and produced a number of jade carving works with this as raw material. Most of these works are large in size and complete in texture. Unfortunately, we didn't play with jade at that time. Even if you play with jade, you should collect Hetian jade seeds. At that time, the first-class sheep fat was only 100 yuan a kilogram, and the small country did not buy it yet. It is said that we can only turn it into a baked steamed bread.
Russian Jasper: As a very high-quality variety, Russian Jasper entered China around 2000. These mountain materials are large in volume, good in jade, few in cracks and black spots, and beautiful in color. Most of them have reached the "jewel-grade" jasper, so they are made into bracelets, beads and bracelets in large quantities. At present, Russian jasper is the main raw material of high-grade jasper in China.