What colors do jadeite have?

Blue jadeite is rarely seen in ornaments and craft carvings, so it is called strange pile in the industry. Natural jadeite is not pure blue. The blue hue here is often green or purple, and the lightness is weak, which is often gray. The value of aquamarine is not high, but because of people's curiosity, it often becomes the guest of collectors. Jade is cyan, and the color of jade is dim, so it generally does not appear as jade. Cyan mainly appears in the background color of jade. Although it is not bright, it can create an atmosphere. The jargon "river green" refers to this color. Cyan appears frequently in jade ornaments and craft carvings, and the common ones are oil cyan, cyan and light cyan. Oil green is a general term for species and water, and the color of oil green species is cyan, that is, jade color with high transparency but gloomy feeling. Cyan and light cyan are descriptions of color depth. The purple color of jadeite was called imperial color in ancient China. From the Emperor Wei Zi to the Forbidden City, from the purple gas when I went through the customs to the purple ribbon, all of them showed the sacred and noble status of purple. The value of truly high-quality purple jadeite is not allowed to be green. Purple appears frequently in jade ornaments and craft carvings, and its texture is rough. Many purple jadeites have a large number of cotton-wool-like white inclusions, which are scattered irregularly on purple jadeites, just like white flour, so the industry calls this phenomenon "eating powder". Purple jadeite, also known as purple jade, is one of the most common colors in jadeite and has high market value. Purple is rich and elegant, light and beautiful, and red and purple are solemn and rich, with their own characteristics. According to the color and saturation, the common purple jadeites in the market can be divided into five types: royal purple, red purple, blue purple, purple and pink purple. (1) Royal Purple refers to a rich and pure purple. Its color and tone are pure, its saturation is generally high, and its brightness is medium, thus presenting a kind of rich and graceful beauty. In fact, this kind of purple is rare and belongs to theoretical jadeite. Even in purple jadeite, it is hard to find, and it has high collection value. A bracelet full of royal purple, the market price can reach more than one million yuan, and the full face can reach several hundred thousand yuan. (2) Red-purple is a kind of purple that prefers the color of Hong Fei. Its color saturation is usually moderate, and the type with high saturation is rare. It is not common in purple jadeite, and its value is highly recognized. (3) Blue purple is a kind of purple tending to blue, and its saturation varies greatly, ranging from light blue purple to deep blue purple. It is a common species of purple jade, which is called "eggplant purple" in jargon. When saturation is high, the color often feels gray-blue. Brightness is generally lower than other types. (4) Purple is the most common commercial jadeite. Purple is from medium depth to light color. This purple color often appears in some jadeites with coarse to fine texture, and sometimes it appears together with green to form the so-called "spring band color", which is the standard color of violet jadeite. (5) Pink purple is a kind of light purple, and it can feel reddish or blue, but it can't reach the degree of reddish purple or blue purple. Although its purple color is still obvious, its saturation is relatively low. It often appears in some jadeites with good water head and delicate texture, and its commercial value is the lowest among all purple jadeites. Jade white and grayish white occupy a large proportion in jade raw materials, and a large number of middle and low grade jadeites are grayish white. It is often necessary to add other colors in jade ornaments and handicrafts carving. Gray and white jadeite form a series of transition colors, among which white can be divided into china white, milky white, snow white, suet white, gray and light gray. If white jade has high transparency and fine texture, it still belongs to the top grade of jade. There is a rare ivory jade, which is delicate and translucent. Its ivory color mainly comes from a large number of tiny white cotton wadding inclusions. According to gemmological theory, it belongs to the classic false color. Emerald Black Emerald occupies a very special position in jade ornaments and handicraft carving. The jargon is "green with black, black with green." It is proved that green and black in jadeite are closely related. After identification, if black is scattered at the bottom of other colors, most of the black parts belong to opaque dark amphibole minerals, so this black color has a huge negative effect on the value of jadeite. The jargon also says, "There are black and green old people and black and green people." The black color here is often rich in transition metal chromogenic ion Cr3+, so it appears black. However, under strong light, it can still appear green and has certain transparency. In this case, black has no obvious negative effect on the value of jadeite. However, if the main mineral in the black part is omphacite, then the black jadeite has a more resounding name: "Cui Mo" (see the chapter "Ten Thousand Kinds of Jadeites" for details). Colorless jadeite Colorless jadeite is often very pure jadeite (narrowly defined as standard jadeite). Except for varieties with delicate texture and high water head, truly colorless jadeite is rare, mostly white or grayish white.