Taqing is the abbreviation of Heiqing in Taxian County, which is produced in Mayanpile Village, Tashkurgan, Kashgar, Xinjiang. The average altitude there is 3500-4000 meters, and the environment is sinister, making mining extremely difficult.
Taqing is famous for its delicacy and good oiliness, and is called "the remains of Kunlun market, the king of black sapphire". It can be said that a good taqing is called black sheep fat. Taqing has the best density, fineness, hardness and oiliness among black and green materials. Especially in terms of fineness, a good tower can hardly see the structure when lighting.
However, the real output of Taqing is not high, and now Taqing has restricted mining, which can be said to be basically prohibited. Those good materials are now basically collected by large households or mine owners. There are very few real Taqing in the market now, so it is very common to pretend to be Taqing with various black cyan. The types of impostors are generally Qinghai Black Blue, Guangxi Black Blue, Russian Black Blue, and even some kavanagh Greek.
First of all, Qinghai is black and blue. There is a saying called "Ten Blacks and Nine Seas", which shows the output of black and green in Qinghai in the market. Qinghai black green also has very fine materials, but the price is much worse than Taqing. How to distinguish between black and blue in Qinghai? Generally speaking, Qinghai black and green are relatively transparent, and the graininess of jade is heavier than Taqing, and the texture is not as uniform as Taqing. And the color is quite dim. If you turn on the light, you will find that the cyan is obviously mixed with a little flash ash, which has a loose feeling of particles and white lines.
The one that most often pretends to be Taqing is called Guangxi Heiqing. The blackness is good, but it is stony oil. Therefore, players need to pay special attention to this material when buying Taqing. The identification of Taqing depends on jade, light, color and so on. For example, lighting a lamp means that some towers have some cow hair patterns.
Now that we are talking about Ta Qing, let's talk about Ta County. There are three treasures, emeralds, Taqing and Maca in Ta County, among which the emeralds in Ta County are also worth mentioning. Emerald is produced in Dabudar Township, Ta County. It is the only emerald producing area in China, and its value is also very high. It is said that emeralds are more valuable than diamonds.
Besides Taqing, Tashkurgan county also produces some other jade species, such as white jade, sugar white jade and blue and white jade produced in Datong township, which are delicate in texture and warm in hand, but generally have the disadvantage of more impurities. Ma Yang Er Township also produces some Elaeagnus angustifolia, but the quantity is very small, and some can be seen occasionally.
Taqing can be said to be a very good jade species in mountain materials. Many times, among the black and green materials, Taqing's reputation often overshadows the black and green seed materials, which shows people's love for Taqing. However, as we also said, the output of Taqing is not high, especially now, a really good piece of Taqing is particularly hard to find, and it often happens in the market that "selling dog meat by hanging sheep's head", so players must pay more attention. The black one is easy to find, but the sheep fat tower is not easy to find!