Yellow Dragon Jade Appreciation and Selection

Yellow Dragon Jade, also known as Dragon Yellow Stone, is mainly produced in the Xiaoheishan Nature Reserve in Longling County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, and the surrounding Supa River basin. Its main colors are yellow and red, with additional colors such as suet white, celadon white, black, gray, and green. From an appreciation standpoint, it can be divided into primary Yellow Dragon Jade and carved Yellow Dragon Jade. Let's take a look at Yellow Dragon Jade appreciation and selection together!

Appreciation of Yellow Dragon Jade

1. Color: The colors of Yellow Dragon Jade include pale yellow, golden yellow, orange red, tangerine red, pigeon-blood red, pale red, golden orange red, and more. These tones are the most active, most prosperous, most noble, and most vital and infectious auspicious colors among warm tones. This is the first element that makes Yellow Dragon Jade so highly favored and valuable.

2. Transparency: Yellow Dragon Jade is generally uniform and semi-transparent. When observed against light, the edges or thinner parts of the jade material show orange-yellow light transmission. When illuminated with a flashlight, the halo is relatively wide, and when shone close to the edge, it can often be transparent to 3 to 6 cm. Finished products after processing have a pure and clear texture.

3. Moistness: Yellow Dragon Jade has a fine, dense, pure, and clear texture with no impurities, so the effect after polishing is excellent, delicate and smooth, clear and lively.

4. Hardness: The hardness of Yellow Dragon Jade is 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale. When there is a high content of aluminum and iron silicate components, the hardness will decrease slightly. During processing, it is very "hard" on tools, requiring somewhat more labor than carving jadeite.

Selection of Yellow Dragon Jade

1. Color: Jadeite is beautiful in green, and Hetian's suet white is also famous. When selecting Yellow Dragon Jade, apart from Yellow Dragon Jade water-grass flower, it is basically best to choose red and yellow, and darker colors are better. Some people think white Yellow Dragon Jade is also quite beautiful, and the author does not object, but relatively speaking, red and yellow can better reflect the characteristics of Yellow Dragon Jade.

2. Cotton and cracks: Inexpensive Yellow Dragon Jade more or less has flaws. For personal collection and handling, of course, the fewer flaws in the Yellow Dragon Jade you buy, the better. You can bring your own flashlight or take the Yellow Dragon Jade product into direct sunlight for careful observation. It is relatively common for jadeite to have cotton, but when selecting Yellow Dragon Jade, it is best to choose products with fewer cracks and less cotton.

3. Carving: The jade you buy is generally used for appreciation, handling, wearing, and collection, so of course the more beautiful the Yellow Dragon Jade, the better. Yellow Dragon Jade with good carving has vivid forms and smooth lines, and some are quite creative, making just the right use of the Yellow Dragon Jade's color zoning for clever carving, and so on. Of course, friends who have the conditions and are skilled at carving can carry out further processing.

4. Type and material: Type and material are generally relatively difficult for beginners to distinguish. Some fairly simple tips can be shared. Look at the fineness of the Yellow Dragon Jade. The smoother the surface of the Yellow Dragon Jade after polishing, and the product without tiny granular texture, the better the type and material. The finest yellow Yellow Dragon Jade material is like the feeling of honey just blooming in water. This kind of material is called sugar-heart material.

Maintenance of Yellow Dragon Jade

1. Human nourishment: High-grade Yellow Dragon Jade jewelry has a warm and delicate texture and does not need oil wiping or waxing for maintenance. It is enough to frequently hold it in your hand to play with and touch it, repeatedly stroking it with the skin of the hands, face, buttocks, chest, and knees of the admirer, so that it obtains long-term nourishment from human sweat and oils and becomes more crystalline and lively. The longer it is worn, the more gentle and charming it appears. For those with fuller figures and soft, moist skin, the effect of "human nourishment" is more pronounced and more lasting.

2. Oil nourishment: Oil nourishment is the most widely used method for maintaining Yellow Dragon Jade. When using oil nourishment, choose a high-quality colorless, odorless, water-clear baby skin oil. It is forbidden to use others such as silicone oil; sewing machine oil, hair oil, and vegetable oil are all unusable. Also pay attention to observation, and when necessary, extend the oil nourishment time.

3. Wax nourishment: Wax nourishment is also called "wax dipping" and is a common method for all jade types, but it is not widely applied to Yellow Dragon Jade because after wax dipping the jade color slightly darkens, and there is also a phenomenon of "floating wax turning white."

4. Liquid nourishment: Liquid nourishment is a temporary maintenance method for Yellow Dragon Jade, commonly seen in sellers' gem and jade display counters, where several goblets filled with water or other liquids are placed. The purpose is to keep the air in the counter moist, achieving the goal of making the color and quality of carved jade pieces bright, moist, and saturated.