Many countries have jadeware culture but none of them has a long history as China has.Its jadeware culture has undergone a long process of development from the New Stone Age 10,000 years ago to the current era of electronics.The seldom seen old culture has created many images to induce fantastic reveries.

China's jadeware has rich connotation with patterns to show strong auspicious colour. Bats and gourds were often used to generate more than 100 fortunate patterns because they sounded� "good fortune" in Chinese.When a bat was carved on an ancient coin with a hole,it meant fortune was at hand.When many bats were put with birthday peaches, they referred to fortune and a long life.bats were mixed with sika,birthday peaches and magpies,they also had a good meaning.

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Jade in China is varied and can be divided into hard and soft. Good materials provide strong basics for jadeware carving,but the value of a jade object depends on the skills and status of craftsmen,the dates when to carve it peculiar modelling and owner's status.

Certainly,different people will have various views on the value of the same jade object.It is difficult ot have a unanimous standard,so everyone who like jadeware can judge it by this way: If I like,It's the best one!