Jade has won the reputation of "the king of jade"! Jade is listed as jewelry because it is beautiful, and jade is listed as the most expensive substance in the world because it is rare, unrepeatable and priceless. In addition to external beauty, it is also related to human life. Among all natural materials used in jewelry, jade is the closest to people. Because of its wonderful characteristics, it has the functions of stabilizing emotions and balancing physiological functions. It also has a certain relationship with people. Gold and silver are money, diamonds are price, and jade is life. In the course of your life, when you have a jade article, life naturally adds a sense of jade. Whether you wear it, collect it, or give it as a gift, you will cherish jade as much as you cherish life. Jade gives you hope, all luxuries, sustenance, feelings, emotions, detachment … that is the most dynamic part of your life.
The opening of the South Silk Road has opened a convenient door for jade to enter and leave Tengchong in large quantities. As early as the 9th year of Yongyuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 97), Yong You Diao, the king of Yongchang, met with the Eastern Han Dynasty in the form of "presenting a new translation as a national treasure". This system is found in the first jade input record. As a tribute, jade has been continuously flowing into the mainland of China since the Han Dynasty. After two thousand years of communication, it has leapt over the Southern Silk Road. Jade flows into western Yunnan and inland, and Tengchong is naturally the main distribution center.
The red one is Fei and the green one is Cui. The mining and bidding of Myanmar jade factory are mostly undertaken by Tengchong businessmen, which shows that Tengchong people have made indelible special contributions to the mining and trade of Myanmar jade.
People love jade mainly because of its decorative value and precious value. In the Qing Dynasty, "from concubines and concubines to ordinary ladies, all were decorated with jade and jade beads". There are still many people who love jade among the people.
Tengchong people often say that if you are poor, you should leave the factory, while "foreigners" refer to exotic places in Southeast Asia, and "leaving the factory" refers to working in a jade factory. This is what Tengchong people have to do because they are poor and badly in need of Qian Wen, or because there is chaos in the world. Facts have proved that this method is often effective. Many Tengchong people have got rid of poverty and become rich for some reasons, and some people are indeed beggars and dying in foreign countries. Things always have two sides.
Jade has been processed in Tengchong and sold to Kunming, Guizhou, Guangdong, Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places, and its economic value has risen to a very high level. Therefore, Tengchong and jade are very common, and jade processing has a certain scale. An Englishman wrote in his travel notes: "A long street was opened by a jade shop, and the jade was polished day and night. After midnight, it could still be heard dancing on the revolving bed and reaching out of the window." There are many workshops and shops for jade artisans. According to the Records of Tengchong County compiled during the Republic of China, "there are 14 treasure shops, 33 jade shops, 27 jade belly-eye craftsmen, 22 jade fine-flowerers, 3/kloc-0 jade device craftsmen and 37 jade commodity craftsmen." There are more than 3000 jade craftsmen, forming a special street. In addition, there are "thirty or forty people scattered in suburban villages such as the front of the renewal, Gujiazhai and Racecourse, mostly small craftsmen with car eyes." Many Tengchong Jade Factory are businessmen from Myanmar, who contract and collect the jade produced by the jade factory. For example, Dong Tingzhen, the firm of Hongshengxiang, has been contracted for more than ten years. Similar to him are Zhang Baoting, Cun Rudong, etc. Are giants who have leapt over overseas Chinese. The leap-forward section of the South Silk Road is the only way for them to pass by repeatedly and become rich, and it is also a historical witness of their rise and fall.