Hetian, located in the southwest of Xinjiang in Northwest China, is famous for its exquisite, pure white and flawless jade -- Hetian jade.

As you have known about the Hetian Jade Jewelry from other article,Hetian Jade Jewelry is one precious jade jewelry that have been loved throughout most of China's long history.To let you know more about hetian jade jewelry.we will introduce the hetian jade colore and jade jewelry value judgement to let you now more about hetian jade jewelry.

The value of Hetian jade is depended on its purity of color and texture. It can be categorized mainly as following:
(1) White Jade: it contains more than 95% tremolite. Its color is white, The texture is pure, exquisite, lustrous, and watery. It is the high-end category of Hetian jade. During the Han, Song and Qing Dynasties, it is the peak of the making of jade ornaments. During this period, white jade is a preferred choice of materials, and the high quality white was sometimes exquisitely called as "Zhongqi".
(2)Mutton-fat white jade: it is the high-end class of white jade with exquisite texture and high purity. It contains 99% tremolite. Its color is white, and has a lustrous appearance. Its value is much higher than white jade with the same weight. During the Han, Song and Qian Long of Qing Dynasty, the mutton-fat white jade was greatly cherished.
(3) Light green jade: It does not have obvious distinction from white jade except that it has hues of light green in white. It is the third class jade material of Hetian Jade. The value of light green jade is a little inferior to the white jade.
(4) Green jade: If the color shows light green, green and gray are all called green jade. It contains 89% of tremolite and 6% of actinolite. Its color is typically uniform and clear, the texture is exquisite, and it shows abundant luster. It makes the majority of Hetian Jade.
(5) Yellow jade: Its texture is similar to white jade. Because it contains iron oxide, it has yellow hues in white.
(6) Sugar jade: because of different content of iron oxide in tremolite, it forms red hues at various depth from the surface.
(7)Ink jade: it has black color.

Among the various Hetian jade, Mutton-fat (called Yangzhi in China) jade is considered the best of the white jade. This region was so abundant in Hetian jade that people in the past could easily find it on the ground. But now people have to climb the snow-covered mountain peak to find some, for not much is left on ground after so many years of exploration.After all jade is rare gem.it’s hard to find out good Hetian jade even though so many people spend so much time climbing high mountain looking for Hetian jade.

China treat Hetian Jade as “country jade”,the Beijing Olympic medal are made from Hetian Jade. so it’s a fortune to own one real Hetian jade.