Beautiful Attractive Vintage Jade Rings
Jade is a precious stone that is used in a variety of jewellery and ornaments. It has a long history of cultural significance in many civilisations. It is a relatively hard mineral stone with great variations in colour which makes it a very popular ornamental stone and is highly regarded in the Asian cultures as having spiritual and mystical properties. Jade is found as one of the two mineral varieties i.e. the jadeite and the nephrite both of which are used for ornamental purposes like making jade rings, pendants, bracelets, necklaces etc. While jadeite is harder than the nephrite, it is found only in Burma and nephrite is more widely distributed geographically. The jade stone is not just an ornamental stone in the Chinese culture and many great stories can be found in the Chinese ancient folklore which dates back to Confucius and the symbolism associated with jade is very deeply rooted. It is then that jade was treated as a special stone and used to make a variety of weapons, jewell