The Authoritative Digital Archive of Chinese Jade

Jade, the Fairest of Stones

For more than eight millennia, jade has run through the ritual order, belief and aesthetics of Chinese civilisation. Organised into volumes on taxonomy, history, culture and the collection, this archive presents the whole field upon the twin foundations of mineralogy and the transmitted classics.

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白玉鼻烟壶 White jade snuff bottle
White jade snuff bottle with lion-mask ring handles and agate stopper — unctuous white that congeals like mutton fat under the light: the words "warm, smooth and lustrous" made stone · chinesejade.org catalogue No. 10001
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NEW The CIBJO Jade Guide, 2026 edition — the World Jewellery Confederation enthrones Fei Cui in international nomenclature. Read our full digest. READ THE GUIDE →
8000+Years of Jade Working
2Mineralogical Families
6Ritual Implements
5Confucian Virtues
The Volumes

Six Volumes, One Archive

The archive is built in six volumes — taxonomy, history, culture, the collection, news and the editorial charter — each standing on its own and growing as new material is added.

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玉石分类体系
TaxonomyTAXONOMY

Nephrite and jadeite, the broader family and the Four Famous Jades, ordered by national standards and mineralogy.

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和田玉
Hetian JadeNEPHRITE

Eight colour classes and four modes of occurrence; the canon of mutton-fat white and the main vein of the nephrite tradition.

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翡翠
FeicuiJADEITE

Texture, water, colour and craft; Types A, B and C; and the courtly rise of jadeite in the late Qing.

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历史长卷
HistoryHISTORY

From Xinglongwa slit-rings to the present day — an eight-millennia chronicle, with a special study of feicui's ascent.

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玉德文化
CultureCULTURE

Six implements for Heaven and Earth, five virtues for the noble; jade in rite, thought and idiom.

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数字典藏
CollectionCOLLECTION

Masterworks selected from public collections worldwide — openly licensed, individually documented.
The noble compare virtue to jade: warm, smooth and lustrous — like benevolence itself.
CONFUCIUS · BOOK OF RITES, PIN YI
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From the Archive

2026 · 09 · 06 CIBJO Presents Updated Jade Guide at Centenary Congress

At its Centenary Congress in Vicenza, CIBJO presented the updated Jade Guide — enthroning the three-mineral Fei Cui definition, bridging Eastern and Western nomenclature, with appendices of Chinese trade names. Read our full digest on this site. (Via CIBJO.)

CIBJO STANDARD 2026 · 09 · 07 "Jade Meets Beijing" Culture Week to Open at Shougang Park

A jade culture week jointly presented by Yushu (Qinghai) and Beijing opens this September at Shougang Park, showcasing Kunlun jade culture and Sanjiangyuan-capital exchange. (Via Banyuetan, a Xinhua-affiliated review.)

半月谈 EXHIBITION 2026 · 09 · 04 Pingzhou Jade Industry Park: A Trading Hub Reinvents Itself

Pingzhou in Foshan — among China’s largest jadeite trading hubs — is upgrading its jade industry park, integrating carving, livestream commerce and cultural tourism. (Via Foshan Daily.)

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