Huang Longyu, produced in Longjiang Township, is a good material for large-scale Huanglong jade carving crafts. The large size indicates that the tensile force is relatively small in the molding process, which can also be proved by the fact that there are few cracks. In addition, the jade skin produced here is yellow-brown corrugated or fish scale-like, with rich red or yellow inside, which contains more impurities than that of Xiaoheishan, affecting her quality.
Huanglong jade produced in Zhen 'an Township generally has four colors: yellow, orange, red and white, but it is not so pure and not gorgeous enough. The surface of seed material is different, with bronze, green and cyan patterns, which are very ornamental. The main color outside is red or yellow, and the inside is gray or dark. In 2004, a new jade species gradually entered the collectors' field of vision and was discovered in Yunnan. It was named Huang Longyu by Yunnan Ornamental Stone Association. Zhejiang Longyou, Guangdong Taishan, Chaozhou, Zijin and other places also have a small amount of output. The main colors of Huang Longyu are yellow and red, "yellow as gold, red as blood, and Bai Rubing as ink". Yellow is the noblest and most mysterious color in China culture, which is specially used by the royal family and religion. China people have been trying to find yellow jade, but they have found nothing for thousands of years, so this kind of jade was named Dish as soon as it was born. Its hardness is comparable to that of jade, and its texture is delicate and crystal clear, which is especially favored by royalty and dignitaries. However, Tian Huangshi has never been called jade because its hardness is far lower than that of traditional jade, that is, it is higher than Mohs hardness of 5, while Tian Huang's hardness is only about 2.5. Because its appearance makes up for the shortage of topaz varieties from ancient times to the present, it is full of totem and gorgeous, showing the demeanor of kings. "Beautiful jade comes out in a prosperous time". Huang Longyu, with yellow and red as the main colors and matching the colors of the national flag and national emblem, has special symbolic significance and is destined to open up a new world for the development of Chinese jade culture. Huang Longyu's discovery just filled this gap and realized the dream of China people for thousands of years.
Since February 20 1 1, Huang Longyu officially entered the national jewelry and jade list and became a natural jade with the same status as jadeite and hetian jade, Yu Lang Huang Longyu Expo Hall was set up in Kunming Expo Park, Yunnan Province, Xinfa Huanglong Jade Museum was set up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, and Hong Jiu Meihuanglong Jade Collection Museum was set up in Beijing, which was open to jade lovers free of charge and displayed many high-end fine Huang Longyu.
Before Huang Longyu was developed into jade, it was only collected and traded as an ornamental stone, and it was called Yunnan yellow wax stone. In 2000, stone merchants in Guangxi discovered Yunnan yellow wax stone in the Supa River at the junction of Longxin and Xiangda in Longling, Yunnan. Because of its delicate stone, golden color, huge block shape, rich varieties and high ornamental value, it was quietly excavated and sold as an ornamental stone in Guangxi. Mangshi people began to buy a lot, first mountain materials, and then seed materials.
At the beginning of 2004, the good mountain materials in the market only cost a few yuan per kilogram, but now it has risen to several thousand yuan or even ten thousand yuan per kilogram. Because of the scarcity of resources, good seed materials, turf materials, mountain streams and grass flowers are hard to find, and the prices are in rapid and sustained growth. Its rapid price rise has created a miracle in the history of jade. The main reason is that Huang Longyu's excellent quality and unique rich colors have been highly recognized by professionals, investors and the general public. In addition, Huang Longyu's mineral reserves are far lower than those of China's precious Hetian jade and Myanmar jadeite (Huanglongyu's proven reserves
The amount is less than 400,000 tons, and only about 5% can be used, and high-quality stones are even more rare), so Huang Longyu has the rare characteristics of precious stones.
Although the price increase in Huang Longyu is very fast, its absolute price is far lower than the sky-high price of 20-30 million yuan per kilogram of sheep fat white jade in Hotan, and the top pendants and bracelets with jadeite exceeding 100 million yuan. As one of the three recognized excellent jade varieties, the value of Huang Longyu is far from being fully reflected, and its investment and collection space is self-evident. Today, with the rapid and stable development of social economy, people's living standards have improved significantly, and people's requirements for spiritual living standards are increasing day by day. In addition, the high-quality resources in traditional jade have been exhausted. Many factors provide broad prospects for the development of Huang Longyu. At this time, some people can't help wondering about Huang Longyu. How much should it be worth Others say that its main chemical composition is silicon dioxide, which is not as low as glass. Dare not or disdain to touch it, but what is the truth?
Excellent and precious natural jade must have three elements: beauty, rarity and durability, rather than simply judging its quality and value by its composition. For example, jadeite is composed of sodium aluminum silicate, and Hetian jade is composed of calcium magnesium silicate, but silicate is the main component of the earth's crust and can be seen everywhere. When the ancients discovered, used and collected jadeite and hetian jade, they didn't know what their ingredients were, but they were liked and collected because they had the three elements of excellent jade. Even if today's society can identify their components through scientific and technological means, it cannot be said that sodium aluminosilicate is jadeite, and it must be gem-grade to be called jadeite. Even if it is called jade, it can be divided into low price and priceless. For another example, the chemical composition of the most precious diamond is the same as that of coal. The chemical composition of expensive rubies and sapphires is alumina. Ruby and sapphire can be synthesized artificially, but they are still the most precious gems. Opal is also mainly made of silica, which is one of the five outstanding gems recognized internationally and has high value. The price of top black opal has even exceeded the price of top diamonds.
So how narrow it is to determine the quality and value of jade only by composition! The main reason for this phenomenon is that some "interest groups" constantly instill wrong theories into people to prevent their own interests from being eroded by other jade species or new jade species, while some "experts" have also become spokespersons of some interest groups, while some fake experts are conformity, thus causing people to be at a loss. Huang Longyu is widely loved and collected because of its beauty, rarity, durability and other important elements, and it is reasonable for its price to increase substantially.
Others question Huang Longyu's lack of cultural background, because its secular life is only ten years, thus denying its value. China's jade culture should have a history of about 8,000 years, so the history of people's real use of jade should be more than 10,000 years. Huang Longyu's cultural heritage lies in its inheritance, development and great enrichment of China's jade culture, which is in the same strain as China's profound jade culture. Nowadays, in the prosperous times, China people's dream of ten thousand years has come true, and the sentence "Beautiful jade comes out in the prosperous times" has been verified.
Because the high-quality resources of jade and Hetian jade have been exhausted, good things are pocketed by a few people. Even if there are only a handful of high-quality exhibits on the market, it is already sky-high, which is out of reach of ordinary people, and even has no chance to contact. Even the low-end quality price is not acceptable to ordinary people. Do all China people have to spend a lot of money to appreciate, collect and hand down the low-end products of Hetian jade and jadeite jade to inherit and carry forward the Chinese jade culture? Such an idea is either narrow-minded and paranoid, or it is just what some people want!
What's more, the so-called history is not a necessary factor to determine the value of a jade species, because we are not archaeologists or scholars who study jade culture, nor are we admiring ancient jade antiques, but natural gems with aesthetic value, investment value and collection value. For example, many of the earliest jades used by our ancestors were not Hetian jade. The history of those jades was much longer than Hetian jade, but the price was much lower than Hetian jade. Jade is known as the "king of jade", with a history of only three or four hundred years, which is not the same as Hetian jade, but the price of jade is far behind Hetian jade. For another example, jadeite jade, Hetian jade and Huang Longyu are the main jadeites that people wear, invest and collect nowadays, while lantian jade, dushan jade and Xiuyu, four famous jades in China with a long history and profound cultural heritage, which appeared earlier than jadeite jade and Hetian jade, did not enter the mainstream investment collection, and even could not find a place to buy them. When people invest in jade such as jade, they should also measure their value from the standards of species, water, color and smoothness. These standards are inherent in jade, not endowed by humanity. This is also the "five virtues" used by the ancients to measure Youyu. Therefore, to become a precious and excellent jade, we must first have excellent innate elements such as species, water, color and moistening, and then give it humanistic value through people's cognition, acceptance and appreciation, and constantly improve in this process.
Several major archaeological discoveries of jade culture in China, such as "Hongshan Culture", "Liangzhu Jade Culture" and "Xinglongwa Culture", have never unearthed jade, let alone jade, and the unearthed jade varieties have not become contemporary rare jade, because we consider that the value of rare jade is not only culture, but also the excellent quality of jade itself, plus its scarce reserves. The quality of Huang Longyu itself is no less than that of any jade species, and its reserves are far less than those of jadeite and Hetian jade. What it needs is to be known and recognized by more people. Just like jade and hetian jade, it is gradually recognized. It would be terrible, paranoid, ignorant, and even ulterior to completely deny Huang Longyu just because he is still "young". Who hasn't been "young"
Huang Longyu fully possesses the innate elements as an excellent and precious jade species, which is more in line with China people's aesthetic requirements for jade, and its value will be further enhanced with people's continuous appreciation. In less than ten years, Huang Longyu fully verified this theory from discovery to widespread acceptance. The high-grade collection of jadeite and hetian jade is sky-high, and the high-quality resources have been exhausted, all of which provide a very good opportunity and platform for Huanglongyu and those who appreciate and collect Huang Longyu. In this era of free operation of capital and rapid improvement of people's material level, Huang Longyu and his appreciators will certainly create another new miracle after Jade and Hetian Jade in a shorter time, adding a strong touch to China's colorful jade culture and becoming the inheritor and opener of China's jade culture.
Emerald, Hetian jade and Huanglong jade are all gems formed by crustal movement hundreds of millions of years ago. They are all treasures given to mankind by nature, but they were discovered and utilized in different times. Any kind of jade species will eventually run out of resources, and new excellent jade species will be discovered continuously. They just play different roles in different historical periods and are an indispensable part of Chinese jade culture. The main color of Hetian jade is white, which symbolizes purity and elegance. The color admired by jade is green, which symbolizes endless life; The main colors and respected colors in Huang Longyu are yellow and red, which symbolize wealth and good luck. They are loved by different people or by different people at the same time, and they all shoulder the mission of inheriting and developing Chinese jade culture.
Some people say that Huang Longyu is not a jade. What is "jade"? In fact, there is no exact definition of jade since ancient times (there is no clear annotation in both mineralogy and Kangxi dictionary). Different people have different opinions. The word jade comes from ancient times, but how did the ancients define jade? The ancients said: "A beautiful stone is jade", that is to say, a beautiful stone can be called jade. According to the ancients, in addition to beauty, it should also have a certain hardness (Mohs hardness is above 5), and it should also have factors such as stability, durability and inheritance. Of course, excellent jade species should also have more natural and humanistic elements. According to the advice of the ancients, a good jade should have "eleven virtues", which Huang Longyu fully possessed.
However, there are still some people who only consider Hetian jade as true jade, and other jade species have become jade in a broad sense, and can't even be called jade. If the jade culture in China does not have a history of 10,000 years, because none of the jade discovered before Hetian jade is jade, which is internationally recognized as the king of jade, jade is not jade, and even the "Heshibi" known to people in China through the ages has become jade (according to textual research, Heshibi is other jade species that are not Hetian jade). Is China Wannian Jade Culture the result of historians and archaeologists working behind closed doors? Can "Chinese Jade Culture" be directly renamed as "Chinese Hetian Jade Culture"? You can also directly change the name of Hetian jade to "jade" and remove the previous attributes? According to this logic, when Hetian jade resources are exhausted one day, Chinese jade culture will be over? ! That's not ridiculous, but someone is justified.
Of course, even if a new jade species is excellent, it needs people to gradually recognize and accept it, and its value formation also needs a process. Just as Hetian jade took a hundred years from being discovered and accepted to being widely used, it was ridiculed as "non-jade" when it first entered people's field of vision, but it only took 70 or 80 years to surpass Hetian jade, the main body of Chinese jade culture at that time. Their cultural connotation and value are gradually accumulated and become heavy in the process of people's acceptance, appreciation and collection. No jade species is of noble birth, so when a new jade species, such as Huang Longyu, appears, some people are eager to deny its jade characteristics or its future value completely, which is narrow-minded, paranoid or purposeful. In the information age where modern economy, science and technology, communication and Internet are developed, it is reasonable for Huanglongyu to realize its due value in a shorter time.
On March, 2065438+2003 1 day, the local standard DB53/T440-2012 Huang Longyu was implemented. The standards are more scientific and systematic, especially the quality inspection indicators are more comprehensive and specific. After this "new landmark" is put into use, the market operation order in Huang Longyu will be further standardized, and the problems of confusing the fake with the real and shoddy will be greatly reduced. Scientific appraisal and testing standards will protect consumers' rights and interests, and an effective quality testing system will ensure the sustained and healthy development of Huang Longyu's cultural industry. The continuous practice and optimization of Huanglongyu provincial standards have made full preparations for the formulation of the next national standards. According to GIG's Jade Research Report (GIG). The main methods of daily maintenance are similar to those of jadeite and hetian jade:
1, to avoid playing hardball and damaging Huang Longyu.
2. Avoid high temperature exposure, lest Huang Longyu lose moisture and luster.
3. Wear it often. When cleaning, use a soft cloth or brush dipped in water to brush off dirt.
4, can't contact with acid, alkali and organic solvents, these chemical reagents will corrode the surface of Huang Longyu.
People's concern: All high-grade jewelry in Huang Longyu does not need to be oiled or waxed, because its texture is warm and delicate. As long as you play and touch it often, you will get long-term moisture from human sweat and fat, which will make you more crystal clear and moist, and more charming through water.
Oil nourishing: it is a widely used method, but you must use high-quality baby moisturizing oil that is colorless, odorless and clear as water; Pay attention to the observation during oil maintenance, and continue to extend the oil maintenance time if necessary.
Huang Longyu is a new kind of jade in the jade carving industry. It has the warmth of Hetian jade, the color of Tianhuang, the hardness of jadeite (Moshi 7) and the flexibility of Shoushan stone. The appearance of Huang Longyu not only has fibrous structure visible in jadeite, but also has radish pattern similar to Tianhuang. Its transparency not only has the satisfactory "water head" of jade (its transparency can reach 3-6cm), but also has a better "oil head" than Hetian jade. Its glass luster is more attractive. The main colors of Huang Longyu are yellow and red. Yellow means "wealth" and red means "auspiciousness". This is an excellent jade species, which can not only play with the original stone, but also be suitable for carving into various ornaments and ornaments. Deeply favored by consumers, it has become a upstart in the jade collection today. The soaring price in Huang Longyu has aroused people's enthusiasm for collecting. They think that Huang Longyu is a safer investment field than real estate, but few researchers have studied the cultural value of Huang Longyu. Many scholars and players think that the quality of Huang Longyu has reached the extreme, but it is a pity that the secular time is too short and the cultural background is insufficient.
As a kind of jade, the culture of Huang Longyu is not as good as Hetian jade and jadeite. As Huang Longyu, which became famous overnight in China, there are different opinions in the collection circle. The reason is that it has not formed its unique jade culture for a short time. It takes a while for culture to form. However, the early experience of Emerald in China was not satisfactory. When it first appeared, it was similar to Huang Longyu today. It took about 70 or 80 years to become the object of everyone's pursuit. With the accumulation of time, the value of this non-renewable natural resource itself is comparable to that of gold, with great appreciation potential. People have reason to believe that Huanglong jade will form a new jade culture.