The identification of Hetian jade, how to identify Hetian jade

How to identify the real and fake Hetian jade.

Identification of Hetian jade:

1. Identifying Hetian jade can look at the feel, when holding Hetian jade in your hand or sticking it on the **, natural Hetian jade gives people the feeling that it is warm in winter and cool in summer, while fake Hetian jade gives people the feeling that it is mild, and the feel will change with the ambient temperature.

2. In addition, Hetian jade can also be identified by testing the hardness, the real Hetian jade hardness is, with a knife can not be scratched on the surface of Hetian jade can not make any traces, and the fake Hetian jade hardness is generally small, can be used to scratch the traces.

3. Hetian jade can also be identified by listening to the sound, when the Hetian jade is gently tapped with a metal rod, the real Hetian jade will make a crisp and pleasant sound after tapping, while the fake Hetian jade will make a dull and dull sound after tapping.

Hetian jade precautions

When maintaining Hetian jade, you can first soak it in warm water and scrub it, and then soak it in hot water, and then start to wear gloves and play with it.

When wearing Hetian jade, it is necessary to avoid it from being bumped, and to keep Hetian jade with a certain amount of moisture to avoid its breakage and maintain the brightness of the surface of Hetian jade.

Hetian jade's other methods are: looking at the hardness, listening to the sound, and weighing the weight.

1. Look at the hardness: Because the hardness of jade is very high, you can identify the authenticity of jade by scratching the glass. Usually, when the real Hetian jade scratches the glass, there will be obvious scratches on the glass, while the surface of the fake Hetian jade will not leave obvious scratches.

2. Listen to the sound: You can also distinguish the true and false Hetian jade by listening to the sound, the internal structure of the real Hetian jade is fine and dense, and the sound made when striking is crisp and loud, while the internal structure of the fake Hetian jade that has been artificially processed is very loose, and the sound made when hitting is very dull.

3. Weighing weight: You can also identify the authenticity of Hetian jade by weighing the method, and generally there will be an obvious sense of heaviness in the hand, mainly due to the high density of Hetian jade. And the fake Hetian jade has a very small density, and it will have a light feeling when held in the hand.

Tips for buying Hetian jade:

If you have any merchant who tells you that the Hetian jade sold to you is very watery and transparent like jadeite clear water. Then this merchant must be fooling you, if what he said is really Hetian jade, it is also the Qinghai material in Hetian jade, which belongs to the next grade. Hetian jade nephrite pays attention to the characteristics of warmth and oil, and when buying Hetian jade, you must choose oily, not watery.

In fact, the choice of Hetian jade is good for carving, I think there are many colors of Hetian jade, you can choose the color you like, this is very simple, you only need to know what you like Yan Qingzao sedan color, but the carving of good Hetian jade can double the value of Hetian jade, good horses with good saddles, good materials of Hetian jade is usually matched with good carving process is the same reason.