How did Burmese jadeite come to China? How did Burmese jadeite come to China?

How did the jadeite original stone enter China from Myanmar?

1. The development of jade was brought back by caravan porters, so the caravan road from China to Myanmar can also be called Jade Road. Tengchong, as the oldest and largest commercial port in southwest China, plays an important role in the jade transportation route.

2. With the frequent exchange of jadeite between China and Myanmar, jadeite in Ming Dynasty was presented to the imperial court as a tribute. In the Qing Dynasty, jade culture in China entered its heyday, and jade began to spread widely among the people. Businessmen in the Qing Dynasty once established a "Jade Workshop" to process and sell jadeite rough stones.

3. There are no special restrictions on buying jadeite in Myanmar and bringing it back to China. If it is finished jadeite, trains, planes and buses can carry it normally and bring it back to China in a suitcase. It is the same as foreign tourists buying Hetian jade in China, and it is just a commodity.

4. Origin of jadeite rough stone Myanmar is the main origin of jadeite rough stone. It can be said that there are jadeite rough stones everywhere in Myanmar. Therefore, if you want to wholesale jadeite raw stone, Myanmar is definitely the first choice. Myanmar jadeite is usually obtained in its own yard or processing plant.

5. Roman gang. Cai Hanlun's article "Traceability of Emerald" in Gemology of China holds that "the statement that jadeite was discovered 500 years ago is reliable". The book "History of Jade" holds that "Zhou has jade, Han has jade, and it is still a rare treasure in the late Ming Dynasty".

How did Burmese jadeite come from?

1. Most of the jadeite rough stones in Myanmar are due to the violent movement at the junction of the Eurasian plate and the Indian Ocean plate, resulting in a continuous high pressure state. In addition, the shallow surface layer of Myanmar seam meets the low temperature conditions and unique mineral conditions, thus forming a large number of jadeite rough stones.

2. The miners didn't use any advanced modern methods to dig jadeite in Myanmar, which may be because jadeite itself is fragile. In order to protect the original appearance of jadeite, workers still use the oldest traditional methods. This is a test of the technical level of workers, because it is a highly skilled job.

3. Because 40 to 50 million years ago, the drifting Indian continental plate collided with the Eurasian continental plate. This force not only created the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but also provided high-pressure conditions for the formation of jadeite ore. Myitkyina area in northern Myanmar is endowed with unique advantages, and the pressure and temperature not only meet the requirements of jadeite mineralization.

4. From the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China. The history of jadeite is far less than that of Hetian jade. The mining history of jadeite can be traced back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it has a history of more than 400 years. At that time, Myanmar was a dependency of China.

5. The fifth type: under the compression and torsion stress caused by plate collision and low temperature, it further degenerates into jadeite. With the deepening of research, most geologists prefer the fifth statement. Then let's start from the fifth point of view and analyze why only the jadeite in Myanmar can reach the level of jadeite.

6. According to the discovery of water ~ methane ~ jadeite three-phase inclusions in jadeite rocks, it is considered that jadeite is crystallized from the silicate melt of jadeite, which comes from the alkali-containing pyroxene layer widely existing in the mantle of 300 ~ 400 km. More than 95% of the commercial jadeite on the market comes from Myanmar, so jadeite is also called Burmese jade.

How to transport Burmese jadeite to China?

1. Now it's very convenient to pass through Tongbi Pass, leave the country from Lazan and cross the card to Myitkyina.

2. The jadeite original stone can be transported in an informal way.

3. From liberation to reform and opening up. After liberation, because China did not advocate wearing jewelry and the processing industry was depressed, Myanmar's jade imports fell sharply. Burmese jade merchants had to smuggle jade thousands of miles away to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to trade with Hong Kong businessmen and Japanese businessmen.

When was jadeite introduced to China?

At the latest in the Song Dynasty, jadeite was introduced into China, but the quantity was very small. After the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, the cultural exchanges of jadeite between China and Myanmar gradually became frequent, and more and more jadeite raw stones and products were introduced into China.

According to the records in ancient books, jadeite began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the archaeological community has never unearthed jadeite cultural relics in the Han Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, so the earliest time when jadeite flowed into China needs archaeological research.

In his book History of Science and Technology in China, British historian Lee Yue Se believes that jadeite was introduced to China from Myanmar via Yunnan after18th century. The study of ancient jade in China shows that there are few jadeite products in ancient jade. Although there are some literature records and a few archaeological discoveries, it is still inconclusive whether it is really Burmese jade.