翡翠——玉石之王

于常人而言，翡翠是充满魅力而又极其神秘的，很多人爱之，却不懂之，故不敢轻易出手购买。现在就让我简单的介绍一下被称为玉石之王的翡翠吧。

“黄金有价玉无价”，其实玉石之王——翡翠亦是有价的。翡翠如同衣服，衣服的质地，颜色是人们喜爱与否并判断其价值高低的标准，而翡翠的价值也是取决于其颜色（行话为色）和质地（行话为种水），二者直接决定了翡翠的价格。

翡翠的色，顾名思义就是指翡翠的绿，黄，紫，青，白等各种各样的颜色。

翡翠的种是指翡翠结构致密的程度与透明度的高低，是翡翠首饰所表现出的硬朗、刚健、大气的尊贵之美，种好则致密，种差则粗糙；翡翠的水头是指翡翠透明程度的高低，水头长则透明度高，水头短则透明度低。行业内一般把种水联系在一起，统称为种水。

俗话说“内行看种，外行看色”，相对而言，作为质地与透明度代表的种水比色更为重要。翡翠的种代表质地，好像翡翠质量的基础，颜色是建立在质量上的高层建筑，选购翡翠要首先考虑到基础的好坏，然后才考虑锦上添花的颜色。毕竟有绿但是种水差的翡翠给人干巴巴的感觉，缺少灵性，也没有文化的底蕴。

颜色需要一定的基础来得到更好的彰显，作为这个基础的种水大体分为如下几种：

1 玻璃种：质地如玻璃一样明，净，亮，有玻璃的硬度感，把其放在一本书上可看清纸上是何字。（图25，26）

2 冰种：透明中有一层薄雾，似一块浮冰，明净亮劣于玻璃种，把其放在一本书上只可看清有字而看不清是何字。（图27，28）

相信大家看到这里会对翡翠的价格高低有了一些概念上的认识，很多人现在会说撇开买贵买贱不说，更害怕买到所谓的“假货”，其实如果你说了“假货”这两个字就说明你是一个外行，因为翡翠不分真假，而只分A,B,C以及B+C。

A：未经处理的天然翡翠，以及经过浸蜡和热处理的翡翠被称为翡翠A货。

B：通过漂白以洗去内部杂质以及杂色，而破坏了翡翠的内部结构，使其颗粒之间出现较大缝隙，然后用一些有机聚合物充填于缝隙之间起到固结和提高透明度的目的翡翠称为B货。（图43）

C：对已经切磨成型的翡翠制品进行颜色填充，浸染，以达到改变其颜色目的的人工处理的翡翠称为C 货。（图44）

B+C：翡翠经过酸洗以及碱洗处理后，洗净干燥，然后再上色，称为B+C货。

B,C以及B+C看起来颜色更加漂亮，水种更好，貌似高档翡翠，但是已经不是真正意义上的翡翠了，没有保值增值性，倘使花了几千上万甚至几十万买了价值不过百元的B,C以及B+C货就是经济的极大损失，同时B,C以及B+C耐久性差，一段时间后胶质固结物会出现老化，颜色褪失，同时容易断裂。

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Feicui- The king of Jade

Feicui is full of allure and mystery. Many people fall in love with the stone without fully understanding it. This lack of understanding is what makes buying Feicui seem like such a daunting undertaking. Let me ease your apprehensions by giving you a brief introduction to “the king of Jade” that is Feicui.

A Chinese proverb says “One can put a price on gold, but jade is priceless.”  Even is there is no “Jade standard” like gold, the king of jade still has its price.  Like clothes, the textures and colors are what attract people and what are used to measure the value. We call Feicui’s color “se,” and when we talk about texture, we refer to the “water” in the stone. These two things, color and water, directly determine the value of Feicui.

Feicui is not just green.  Various combinations of chromium and iron give Feicui an array of colors from a rich emerald color, to a mild yellow or a bright violet, to a cool blue-green or a pale white or many more possible colors.

When we talk about the type of Feicui, we refer to the degrees of density (the compression in the stone) and transparency (the clarity). Jewelry made from Feicui must both dense and clear, as well a hard and regal in appearance. Good Jade is dense or highly compact; bad jade is brittle and fractures easily.  Feicui’s “water” denotes its level of transparency, a lot of water means high transparency while little “water” means low transparency.   In the industry, when we talk about the type of “water” or “Shui zhong,” we mean the composition of the mineral crystals in the jade that can have clarity similar to different states of water.

There is a Chinese saying, “An insider looks at kind, an outsider looks at color.” When an expert appraises jade, the texture and transparency of the water are far more important than the color. The kind or type of Feicui is determined by its texture. If the texture is the foundation of Feicui’s value, then the color simply builds on the value of the property up like a skyscraper.

Colors of Jade:

1.      Imperial “Yan lu”: This is the highest grade Feicui. It is a green like ripe banana leaves quivering in the rain, a bright life-giving green, a luxurious verdant green. One shade darker and it would be too blue; one shade lighter and it would be too “green” or unripe.  Imperial jade needs a dynamic body and soul, the transparency and luster of the water make up its flesh and blood and work together to make one harmonious body. 

2.      Dense green “Nong lu”:  This is a viridian, a deep green with a synthesis of blue or yellow. It has three varieties: old, semi-old, and new. The water kind in this Feicui will have a clear quality like ice or an opaque quality like glutinous rice.

3.      Vivid Green: This is a bright green with a hint of yellow.  It has very good water or good translucency.

Water Kind:

Color needs a good base to be displayed properly; the base of the water kind is divided into the following categories:

6．   Lotus root starch “Ou fen”: This jade appears luminous but it is actually rather dark, it appears transparent but it is rather opaque.  It looks like a cloudy murky mess of 80% lotus root powder frozen in 20% water.

Is it real or fake: the ABC’s of Feicui:

Everyone now has some idea as to how to recognize and judge the value of Feicui.  Let us put aside discussion of cheap vs. expensive jade and move on to the more frightening matter of fake Feicui.  Actually, when one says the words “fake jade” he is classifying himself as an amateur.  Jade does not differentiate real vs. fake; it classifies Jade as A, B, C or B+C grade.

A Grade： Unprocessed, unaltered 100% natural Feicui. Natural jade that has only been polished in wax and undergone a heat treatment is known as A grade.

B Grade： Has undergone a bleaching process to clean the inside of impurities and inferior color. However, this process destroys the inner structure of the Feicui, leaving wholes where the impurities used to be.  These whole are filled with a type of clear polymer and then lacquered. This corrects all of the problems and leaves a highly transparent finished product that is known as B grade.

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原帖由 虫虫翡翠 于 2009-8-4 19:23:38 发表   书本和网络书本上的东西，生涩难懂， 而且大部分都是学院型的， 我基本看不明白```所以干脆不看``` 汗````自己老师的书我个人认为是入门必看的， 可是我自己也才看完一半``。希望他不会骂我…… 另外，我的这篇原创：翡翠的几个概念——樱子 翡冷翠曾经以虫虫翡翠名义，应邀去加拿大当地一个珠宝学院做讲座， 她把我写的这篇东西完全翻译了，配合图片做讲义。 还有小潘同学，据说她的毕业论文，翡翠方面就是以我的这篇帖子为蓝本， 估计她的英语论文，更有益。 如果需要，可以邀请这两位美女把它们发上来。

我已经尽量用生活中常见的一些物件及颜色来形容各种翡翠的类别，

可是困于自己的翡翠知识的不足以及表达能力的欠缺，

所以说得也许晦涩难懂吧，不过我的本意就是抛砖引玉，希望大家狗尾续貂的，

虫**那篇文章我从头至尾也看了几遍，受益匪浅。

也在虫**推荐下自己去当当网上买了摩太识翠的书。

如果可以希望虫妈可以把翡冷翠的译文上传，刚好一些翡翠的概念我还有待确认。

呵呵

很好很好！！

我觉得这个东西吧，还真是得看实物。看书看图，都有点似懂非懂滴