Green, Yellow and White jade

[moon88]

Dear cecil,
Is there any significance of the the color of the jade(green, yellow. white)used. Thanks.

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Anon,
1. The most common colour associated with Jade is green.
2. Many people believe that the darker the colour of jade, the more valuable it is.
3. In the past, it is common for a lady to wear a jade bracelet around their wrist.
4. Sometimes when they grow `fatter', it is difficult for the jade to come off. But usually soap does the trick.
5. Many believe that the longer the jade is worn, it turns a `darker' colour. Perhaps, it is due to the jade being porous and absorbing the contaminants surround it?
6. For those who have noticed, the Free resources on the website, (under Chinese tombs, The Landscape Feng Shui) there is a body covered entirely with green jade.
To save users the trouble of locating it, the url is:
http://www.geomancy.net/fs/burial.htm
Did you see the body in full Jade suite?
7. Other jade are less `valued'. But each piece differs in its age and quality.
8. As there may be many contaminants e.g. a jade piece with different colours, the artisan making the Jade piece must use his imagination in crafting the piece.
9. For example if you check out the pictures under this URL:
http://www.geomancy.net/pics/jade1/index.htm
10. You can find pieces like:
10.1. Jade Monkey piece
10.2. Jade leaf piece
10.3. Jade horse piece
You will notice that all these jades comes in various `contaminants' colours.
11. But with the imagination of the artisan, they became `great' art pieces which uses these `contaminants' or shades of different colours to good use.
12. Can you spot more examples in the above link where the Jade pieces are of non-uniform colours?
13. For example under the link below:-
http://www.geomancy.net/pics/teacups1/index.htm
You will find an interesting piece called " Jade White Buddha ".
http://www.geomancy.net/pics/teacups1/image11.htm
One can see how, a Jade of partially white jade and yellow (gold) and Red coloured piece of jade has been transformed so beautifully into the image of Buddha `wrapped' in the appropriate Buddhist Yellow and red.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 2/27/00 5:21:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear cecil,
Is there any significance of
the the color of the
jade(green, yellow.
white)used. Thanks.