Green Jade

yu — the stone of virtue

Green Jade rough specimen on dark stone
Provenance
Hotan, China · British Columbia · Siberia
Mineral family
Nephrite — felted amphibole fibers
Hardness
Mohs 6–6.5, and tougher than steel to shatter
Energy
Growth — The long-line frequency — virtue kept, generation to generation.
Jade’s fibers are felted like fabric, which makes it the toughest common gem on Earth — axes of it outlived empires. China has held it above gold for eight thousand years; Confucius counted eleven virtues in it, benevolence and truth among them. It is not a stone you buy so much as one you continue.
“The wise have likened jade to virtue itself.”Confucius · Book of Rites
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