Discovery of jade deepened people understands of stones. After using stone tools for many years people gradually classified them into different types, according to their "beauty". Hardness, mellow, colour, soft feel and pleasant sound, were standards used to gauge the "beauty' of stones. All found expression in one type of stone --- jade. Once the concept of the "beauty of stone" materialized, it became the aesthetic standard of stone's beauty. In the ages to follow, people indeed judged the degrees of beauty of all kinds of stones by jade.[More]

Yayuan is the witness and a main actor in the development of jade carving market in china. It has a great status in the jade history. We first built Yayuan jade carving factory in 1985 in the Changning area of Shanghai. Following the change of China's economic system, in 1992 we founded Shanghai Yayuan Arts Co., Ltd.Now we have a 21years history. It can be said that yayuan is keeping first in the jade carving market by holding the opportunity of each change in the market. Leading by Wei Bin Ni who is the patriarch and also Chinese great Jade sculptor, now yayuan has about a hundred members. [More]