With the continuous warming of the art investment market this year, Hetian jade has never given in and is favored by jade lovers. Whether it is Hetian jade seed material or various carvings, people are scrambling to buy them, and their market prices have hit record highs, attracting collectors' attention.

It is a well-known saying that "jade cannot be cut into a tool". Jade is precious, but its real value can only be shown when it is made into a tool. In other words, it adds artistic added value to the original value of jade. At present, some Hetian jade collectors blindly pursue the quality of raw materials when purchasing collections, ignoring the advantages and disadvantages of sculptors and the cultural connotation of design style. As a collection, it must have a certain collection value, profound cultural connotation, beautiful artistic expression and exquisite carving skills, which are all indispensable parts of the collection value.

How to tell whether a piece of jade is good or bad and whether it is worth collecting? Miss Shi of Hangcheng Yidu Commercial Bank reminds collectors that a good Hetian jade must meet three conditions at the same time: color, smoothness and cleanliness, and the right color. Can't have gray, cyan, yellow-green images. The standard colors of white jade are fat white, milk white and litchi white. The standard colors of blue and white jade are pink green, mung bean green and melon skin green; Second, the quality should be moist. The texture is moist and delicate, looks like grease, and it is as delicate and smooth as a baby's skin when stroked; Thirdly, overall cleanliness, whiteness and flawless is the reputation of Hetian jade, and overall purity, flawless, stone-free and crack-free is the top grade. Yoga does not hide its flaws, and its products are consistent, which is the virtue of Hetian jade.

To collect contemporary Hetian jade collections, we must first distinguish between what is a commodity and what is a work. There is an essential difference between the two. Commodities are mass consumer goods that can be repeatedly produced. Without artistic soul, it can only be the expression of craftsman's skill at best. A good work of Hetian jade embodies the producer's cultural knowledge, artistic accomplishment and carving skills, so that people can enjoy it in taste, appreciation and play, especially the masterpieces and award-winning masterpieces of jade carving masters, each of which is a stroke of genius and has high artistic value. As time goes on, they will become more and more precious. No matter how good a piece of Hetian jade is, it has no profound cultural and artistic connotation and exquisite carving skills, and it can only be a semi-finished product, which has no collection and appreciation value. Reference: www.cnartn.org/6/3/6427.html