There are thousands of jewels in the Qing Dynasty, why did Cixi favor jadeite?

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who was a jeweler, was an authentic jade enthusiast, and once a gringo presented her with a large diamond, she glanced at it slowly, waved her hand, and said, "Go to the side." She did not soften diamonds that spewed fire, but instead fell in love with a small piece of jade that another person offered her, "Good things, great rewards!"

He was given a reward, which was of great value.

Jadeite is listed as the birthstone of May, symbolizing luck and happiness, and although it is not included in the list of the world's top five gemstones, it wears a tall hat of the "king of jade", and the selling price is like a pair of kicks, and it keeps jumping upwards.

A real estate boss in Shanghai bought a piece of Myanmar Laokeng jadeite with a huge amount of money, and asked the artist to spend a year and a half carving and making a jade interstitial screen "Jiutian Xiangrui" with a height of 36 cm, a width of centimeters and a thickness of centimeters, which was comprehensively appraised and evaluated by a number of gems and jade appraisal committees, and determined that it was worth 38 million US dollars. The value of the large-scale jadeite carving "Wuyue Wonders" is incalculable, this giant jadeite jade carving is high meters, wide meters, thick meters, weighing tons, is the jewelry collector Liu Xueqin found in Myanmar in 1996, purchased and carved with a huge amount of money. This sky-high price of jadeite is still auctioned online, and it is estimated that the buyer needs the same financial resources as Bill Gates, because you can't always keep a piece of treasure that only you are willing to buy with your family and drink the northwest wind, it can neither be boiled in soup nor stewed.

God has set a trap here: the most valuable things are worthless because no one can afford to pay or no one is willing to bid.

The name Jade was originally a bird name, Fei is a bird with red feathers, and Emerald is a bird with green feathers, and the two words gradually got together, specifically referring to a blue-green bird with brown color, which is not related to jade, but how can it be used to name jade? Because of its color, this sodium aluminum silicate jadeite is uneven in color, sometimes accompanied by red and green clusters on a light-colored base, and the color is like a beautiful emerald bird. There are many colors of jadeite stone, the red one is called "Fei", and the green one is called "Cui".

If red, green, purple, and yellow coexist on a piece of jadeite jade, it is a rare jade with extremely high value. Although it is also a kind of jade, because of its special value, it has become a king-level branch of jade, and some people will even understand jade and jade as two concepts.

The color of the jadeite is green, which is in line with Cixi's hobby.

Women have a preference for colorful things.