Xinjiang "golden jade" is a kind of jade with great potential, which can be used to carve works of art. Because it is produced on the ancient Silk Road, jade is golden yellow with radish patterns inside, hence the name "Golden Jade". After natural separation, a fine-grained "seed material" is formed, which has high ornamental and collection value after carving. It is a precious jade species unique to China.
geologic feature
Jinsiyu
Hetian "Jinyu", a jade species with great potential for carving works of art, is mainly produced in secondary sediments transported by rivers for a long distance.
Jinsi jade does not include Hetian jade produced in Hetian jade mining area. Jinsiyu refers to the ore that can be used for carving artworks, which is mined and excavated in the mountains, fields and deserts around Hotan area in China. It is named because it is produced on the ancient Silk Road and has a silk (radish)-like structure inside the stone gold.
Quality introduction
The golden jade is naturally separated to form a fine "seed material". After carving, it has high ornamental and collection value and is a precious jade variety unique to China.
The "golden jade" in Hotan, Xinjiang not only has the noble quality of precious stones, but also enjoys the same reputation as the white jade in Hotan, China and the topaz in Shoushan.
Fine: fine texture, knot: internal molecules are tightly knotted, warm: jade implies, moist: dew is about to drip, condensed: translucent or translucent frozen, greasy: oily overflow.
Xinjiang "golden jade" is a kind of jade with great potential, which can be used to carve works of art. Because it is produced on the ancient Silk Road, jade is golden yellow with radish patterns inside, hence the name "Golden Jade". After natural separation, a fine-grained "seed material" is formed, which has high ornamental and collection value after carving. It is a precious jade species unique to China.
Xinjiang Jinsiyu not only has the noble quality of gem * * *, but also has the connotation of delicate texture, distinct knots, internal molecular cohesion and jade-like, moist, dew, dripping, coagulation, translucent or translucent frozen and greasy, like oil overflowing.
The grading of "Xinjiang Jinsiyu" is based on the special requirements of technology, with purity, transparency, color, texture, shape and fragmentation as the main conditions.
Ouyang Zhaoxia, an expert in jewelry appraisal, said that Jin Yu belongs to quartzite jade. In hundreds of millions of years, Jin Yu has been baptized by years in the Gobi Desert, rapidly heating up and suddenly cooling down, and finally grew into a very stable and excellent jade variety. It has a variety of colors, including red, yellow, green, black and white ... The same color will also show different levels, and the appearance is very beautiful; At the same time, its properties are very stable, unlike Huanglongyu's phenomenon of "losing water" and "fading", and its hardness is also very strong, which is very suitable for being carved into various handicrafts. In fact, in recent years, the craftsmanship of Shanghai masters and Lingnan masters has indeed become a pair of "wings" for the soaring price of jade.
The emergence time is "too short", and there is no profound historical and cultural accumulation like Hetian jade and emerald, which is a major defect that "Jinyu" has been criticized by people. However, Ouyang Zhaoxia told reporters that she once saw a gold cup with a tiger handle with a history of 1300 years in the museum. The material is red chalcedony, which should be jade with the same quality as "Jinyu". This shows that the use history of "Jinyu" is very long, but due to the inexplicable disappearance of Loulan ancient country, its use history was suddenly banned. Because the Gobi desert has been inaccessible since ancient times, "golden jade" has long been unknown.
According to investigation and exploration, Junggar basin in Xinjiang is the main producing area of gold and jade. "Jinyu" is mainly distributed in Karamay and other areas. Among them, the Gobi Desert "ghost town" in the west of Karamay is the most famous. Within the range of 100 km around "ghost town" Fiona Fang, the quality is the best and the output is the smallest.