Pick up treasure

Consistent with Wang Ding's answer to his doubts, this text is about some information about Hetian jade.Hetian jade has a long history in China. Throughout the ages, people have used jade as a metaphor for all beautiful things.my country has been known as the "land of jade" since ancient times.The ancients regarded jade as a treasure and used it as a precious ornament.Ancient medical books say that "Jade is the beauty of stone. It is sweet and flat and non-toxic." It is also said that jade is the most abundant substance for the human body to store vitality.It is believed that sucking jade, with the help of saliva and its synergistic effect, can keep healthy.

Not only that, in ancient China.Jade is also an important tool for communicating with heaven and earth and offering sacrifices to ancestors of ghosts and gods. It is a material manifestation of power and status. symbol.

Wang Ding quickly took some information about Hetian jade, because Wang Ding knew it himself. What is more useful is Wang Ding's understanding of the skin of Hetian jade. The text on the jade plate told Wang Ding that the skin of Hetian jade is average. It is divided into three types: color skin, sugar skin and stone skin.

Color skin refers to the layer of jade skin distributed on the surface of Minzi jade. There are many colors. The jade industry names these jade materials after various colors, such as black skin, buckskin, etc. From the skin color, we can see the quality of Ziyu. Quality, such as black leather, buckskin, etc., are mostly high-quality white jade.

Ziyu of the same quality.If it has a skin color such as autumn pear, the value is higher.The thickness of the color skin is different from jadeite, it is very thin, generally less than a millimeter, and the shape of the color skin is also various, some are cloud-shaped, some are vein-shaped, and some are scattered spots.

The formation of the color skin is due to the transformation of ferrous oxide in Hetian jade into iron oxide under oxidative conditions, so it is secondary. Experienced jade pickers should go to the middle and lower reaches to find Ziyu with color skin. .And upstream, the chances of finding Sepi Ziyu are very small.

The so-called sugar skin refers to a layer of yellow-brown and caramel-colored jade skin distributed on the surface of Hetian jade. Because the color is like brown sugar, jade with sugar skin is called sugar jade.The thickness of the sugar skin of sugar jade is relatively large, ranging from a few centimeters to twenty or thirty centimeters, and it is often surrounded by white jade or sapphire in a transitional relationship.Sugar jade is produced near the fissures of the ore body.

The surname of the sugar skin is a little bit bigger, because it is difficult to judge the quality of the jade inside. It may be the best white jade, or it may be ordinary sapphire.After some jade pickers pick sugar-coated jade, they often take it out for others to gamble, but they don’t untie it themselves. This is very similar to emerald betting!

The last type is stone skin, which mostly refers to the surrounding rock surrounded by the surface of Hetian jade mountain materials. When mining, it is mined together with jade and attached to the surface of jade. It can be easily separated.Stone skin is also the easiest material to identify the quality of jade.

According to the hint of the jade card, Wang Ding could judge that the piece of material in front of him is a piece of candy skin jade material.And according to some of its characteristics, Wang Ding can know that it is a material of mountains and rivers, and the white jade inside is not the best suet jade.

"How about it, Wang Ding, did you see it?"

Zhang Yuwen waited for a while, and he couldn't wait to hear the opinion of this young man. After Wang Ding finished reading it, he raised his head and corrected his attitude: "Mr. Zhuang, Uncle Zhang, I think this piece of jade is a mountain stream The material, its volume is relatively large. It is wrapped with sugar skin. It is often said that small materials produce suet. It is not very likely that this piece of jade will produce suet jade, but the skin is moist and greasy. Guess it should be green and white jade, but the quality should be good."

Wang Ding knew that green and white jade was also a good nephrite jade, but its color was slightly worse than suet jade.According to the perspective just now, Wang Ding's judgment is absolutely correct.

Wang Ding told about the origin, skin, and characteristics of the jade material. Although Mr. Zhuang was a little surprised, he was not particularly surprised that Wang Ding could perform this way.After all, Wang Ding's ability to study and comprehend is very strong, and he is the same for a few days. He has been in Paris for so long, and he may have learned a lot of knowledge.

Compared with Mr. Zhuang's admiration, Zhang Bo was even more surprised.What this kid said is definitely not something a layman can say. After listening to Wang Ding's appreciation, Zhang Bo went to Mr. Zhuang and asked, "Old Zhuang, what's your opinion?"

Mr. Zhuang laughed, "My opinion is similar to his. It is more likely that this stone will produce green and white jade, but Tusken, the material of such a large piece of green and white jade is not lower than the price of ordinary suet jade. Are you still not satisfied?"

"No, it's not that I'm dissatisfied. I also think that this piece of material can't produce suet, but what the little brother said, I really think it's scary for young people."

Tusken looked at Wang Ding with a smile, and he no longer doubted Wang Ding's ability. He took out a piece of jasper the size of a palm from his pocket while speaking.

"Little brother, it's your first time here, and I didn't give you any presents, so I'll give you this jasper?"

Tusken directly pushed the jade over, Wang Ding didn't want to accept it, but the opponent's hand was very fast, and he had already stuffed the jade into his pocket, Wang Ding couldn't refuse.

"Then thank you Zhang Bo."

Among nephrite jade, jasper also has a lot of specialties. Ordinary jasper will show a little bit of impurities. If the color is accompanied by a little black spot, the value of jasper will be lower, but then again, if the jade in the jade With more black and fuller, the jade becomes black jade, and the value is much higher.

The piece of jade that Uncle Zhang gave him was fairly standard, and Wang Dingzheng accepted it because he knew it would not be worth too much.

"Old Zhuang, Yu, you helped me to read it, but actually I asked you to come and trouble you with other things."

"Oh?" Elder Zhuang pretended not to know, but in fact he couldn't have guessed that Tusken was looking for him for something else. "Tell me what it is."

"Actually, you should be able to guess that this season is the time for our ore hunting team to go up the mountain to find ore. We plan to go up the mountain tomorrow to find the ore vein. Of course, before going up the mountain, we want to ask Mr. Zhuang to preside over the ceremony. For the jade pickers As far as I am concerned, it needs a respected senior in the industry to preside over it, so I think it is you who have this qualification."

What Tusken said was very high-sounding. In fact, Mr. Zhuang also knew that it was just that an old friend thought highly of him. Moreover, it was not the first time he hosted. Everyone acquiesced to himself, and Tusken didn't want to trouble others.

"Okay, I'll preside over the ceremony for you tomorrow. Wang Ding, do you want to participate?"

Mr. Zhuang was always thinking about Wang Ding, but Wang Ding was really not interested in the ceremony.

"Old Zhuang, I don't think I will go to the ceremony."

"Then what are you doing tomorrow?"

Before Wang Ding answered Mr. Zhuang's question, Zhao Xiaohu rushed to the side and said, "Mr. Zhuang, don't worry, I will accompany Wang Ding all the way tomorrow, and we young people have a lot to say when we are together. There is nothing to do, so you go to preside over the ceremony."

Wang Ding knew exactly what Zhao Xiaohu was thinking, and echoed, "Yes, Mr. Zhuang, I will be with brother Xiaohu tomorrow, so we won't go to the ceremony."

"Okay then, let's go play tomorrow. There are many good attractions in #Xinjiang, so you can just relax."

The summer in Xinjiang is relatively cool. This is not like a city like the stove of Gancheng. It is really pleasant to play and have a rest here, but Zhao Xiaohu shook his head, "Playing is for sure. But when I came here, I made an agreement with Brother Wang Ding in the car, let’s not play, let’s go to pick jade first. Tomorrow I will take Wang Ding and follow the jade picking team to go up the mountain to find jade.”

Mr. Zhuang was giggling, he knew that Zhao Xiaohu was anxious to find Haoyu, but Wang Ding was a little confused.

"Little Tiger, didn't you say you were chairing the meeting just now? Why did you go up the mountain? And if you go up the mountain, it shouldn't be a team looking for ore veins. Why are there jade mining teams? .

"Hehe. The hosting of the ceremony is just a formality. Once the hosting is over, you have to go to the mountain, and you have to find a good season to go up the mountain to find ore veins and jade mining. Now it's just right. If the weather gets colder, you won't be able to enter the mountain." The mountain has been there for a long time. That's why the jade pickers and the ore hunters all entered the mountain together. How about it, do you want to see it?"

Of course Wang Ding was moved, but before Wang Ding expressed his desired opinion, Tusken added enthusiastically. "Wang Ding, you have good eyesight. You can go to the mountains to pick jade. You know, the jade you pick from the mountains belongs to you. You may not be able to pick a few pieces of good jade, so it's really not good." It's a waste of time!"

"Okay, then I'll go and have a look. Learn a lot!"

Wang Ding agreed, Mr. Zhuang didn't say anything before, but now he has to remind Wang Ding, because it is not so easy to go to the mountains to collect jade. In #Xinjiang, the Hetian jade mining area is concentrated in the Kunlun Mountains , but to go up the mountain, you have to travel a long distance, basically it is difficult to come back every ten and a half months.

"Wang Ding, it will take a long time to enter the mountain. You may not be able to come back in ten and a half months. Have you thought about it?"

"I know this, but I think I'd better go and have a look. Uncle Zhang said that the jade I picked up is all my own. I'm lucky. Maybe I can pick up a piece of mutton fat jade."

What Wang Ding said in his heart was not just finding a piece of mutton fat jade. If he could find a vein, then mining it out and providing it to his Wang Dingwang Jewelry Store is the most important thing!

"Okay, you young people are motivated, so you should hurry up and prepare your bags. I can catch up with my old friends while you are in the mountains!"

"kindness."

Wang Ding was looking forward to entering the mountain, Mr. Zhuang said, Zhao Xiaohu accompanied Wang Ding to pack his bags.And don't underestimate why you need Zhao Xiaohu to accompany such a simple thing as packing your bags, because going into the mountains is not such a fun thing. At night, a group of beasts screamed, which was very frightening. Every year in the past, jade pickers stayed in the mountains forever.

Therefore, where it is so easy to mine jade, risks and opportunities coexist! (To be continued.)