How to judge the authenticity of jade?
In recent years, with the gradual warming of Hetian jade market, high-quality Hetian jade has become a hot spot sought after by collectors. Some unscrupulous traders take advantage of consumers' love for Hetian jade materials and copy them, causing consumers to suffer losses. In fact, judging Hetian jade material can be distinguished from color, texture, surface characteristics, price and other aspects. Color and texture: Authentic materials are formed in stages after thousands of years of river scouring and tempering, weathering, water analysis and the restriction of climatic cycles. Therefore, the color permeates into the jade with a layered feeling, permeates into soft places, and goes deep into the cracked texture. This kind of skin color is natural, called genuine leather, also called living skin. The color transition is natural, and the skin feels the same. The color on the skin is from deep to shallow, and the color on the crack should also be from shallow to deep. Eye-catching but not eye-catching, and the color has become more and more affinity with the years. Most of the raw materials with fake skin color are similar to the metal salts slaughtered by Hetian and soaked in the natural environment. Most of them are bordeaux skin, sprinkled with gold skin, floating on the surface, the color is too bright, there is no transitional natural layering, dry and no moisture. Most parts of fake skin are in places where jade is loose, which is called dead skin. This skin color sometimes fades easily when boiled in water. Surface characteristics: Due to the special surrounding rock conditions formed by rough jade and the fiber interwoven structure of tremolite minerals, although this clay is weathered and ground into a circle, there will be countless fine "small sand holes" on its surface, which are felt-like. Looking under a magnifying glass, it looks like a sweat pore on human skin, so many people in the industry call this feature "sweat pore". Whether there are "sweat pores" becomes an effective method to identify the true and false samples. No matter how delicate the real material is, there will be countless holes on its surface, just like eggshells. The superficial phenomenon formed in this natural state is definitely not man-made. There are only wear marks on the rolled material, and there are no "sweat pores" in the natural state. Price: The rolled products that pretend to be genuine materials are common in the market. The rolled material is mountain material or even Qinghai material, Russian material. Put the leftover bits and pieces of jade material into a roller for grinding. Grind it into an oval shape, and then dye it into fake skin to pretend to be jade. This kind of fake material flooded the market and deceived many people. However, the price of rolled products is generally not high, which is far from that of hetian products. Of course, these are only some auxiliary identification methods, and the key is to read more and compare more.