What is the Best Kind of Jade to Buy and Wear?

 Customers often ask "what is the best kind of jade to buy and wear?"   

The best kind of jade to wear is the kind of jade that really appeals to you.

The best kinds of jade are Chinese jade and Burmese jadeite.

Chinese jade is what Chinese people have been wearing for centuries.  The best Chinese jade is mined in Xiuyan, north east China where it is formed naturally.  There are jade museums there that have jade from centuries, the kind you wear, and carvings and more.  Most of the jade is good green color.  Some are classic round,  the more "modern" are flat inside, and some are carved with design, small carvings in the jade bangle stone.  

Chinese green jade bangle bracelet from Xiuyan on Ying Yu Jade

Carved green Chinese jade bangle bracelet from Xiuyan on Ying Yu Jade

And Xiuyan also has Chinese "River Jade" that has colors related to the five body meridians you can wear for health and healing:

Chinese "river jade" from Xiuyan on Ying Yu Jade

Chinese medicine tools like jade rollers, jade gua sha tools are made from Chinese jade, mostly from Xiuyan.  If you find yourself attracted to a jade bangle because of the color, it probably has the best qi energy for you.

And Burmese jadeite also has good qi energy.   People who like Burmese jadeite wear them for the beauty and value.  The very best Burmese jadeite is the good imperial green, that is very rare today to find genuine and natural.  The Imperial Green Burmese jadeite often sells at auctions for more than a million US dollars.  And this is the kind of jade you have to be careful when you buy, because there is so much "fake" jade in this category.  I have seen " imperial green Burmese jadeite bangle bracelets" on eBay priced around $100 US dollars, and often have "fake" certificates of gemology testing and are color treated "some kind of stone".  

Genuine natural "Old Mine" Burmese Jadeite Bangle Bracelet on Jade Heaven

Carved "Old Mine" Genuine Natural Burmese Jadeite Bangle Bracelet on Ying Yu Jade

"Old Mine" Burmese jadeite is available on both web sites and was made before 2008 when political problems in Myanmar started the "fake jade" and jade with certificates of gemology testing.  And be careful, because the certificates are often "fake".

Ying Yu Jade and Jade Heaven have been selling jade since the year 2000.  We shopped in China, both at northern Xiuyan and southern China near the Burma border so we could be sure we were buying genuine and natural Chinese jade and Burmese jadeite.

If you buy jade for high value that will probably increase as time goes on, you probably prefer Burmese jadeite.  If you buy jade for qi energy of the colors that relate to your qi meridians, you probably prefer Chinese jade.  And if you are shopping for jade and "something" really appeals to you, that is the best kind of jade to buy for YOU!

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