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4000 years ago, an artistic stone called giok stone has been known by Chinese. At that time, the giok carving still rude. Giok has philosophy : the beautiful of the motif and colour representative love. Precisely, the hardness of giok stone representative smart, and the glow of giok stone representative honest.

Giok stone handicraft has a lot of motif and each motif has different mean and representative the Chinese culture. Giok from China / Tiongkok as high class art can be found all around the world. So, China/ Tiongkok called as Giok Kingdom.
Natural giok has 2 variation : soft giok and hard giok.

Old fashioned people called a beautiful woman as Nu Yi, mean princess giok. They consider giok can be a medicine, to pursue bad spirit, protect our home and dead body will not rotten if they have giok stone beside them. Even now, some people still consider with the old traditional statement.

There 2 kinds of giok stone handycraft : as ornament / decoration, as accessory. For ornament, giok stone has big shape. It is used for decoration in the room or meeting room or working room. As accessory, giok can be used as ring, necklace, and other accessory. In the past, giok can be applied in royal hat and clothes.
Giok stone handicraft has a lot of motif and each motif has different mean and representative the Chinese culture. Giok from China / Tiongkok as high class art can be found all around the world. So, China/ Tiongkok called as Giok Kingdom.

Natural giok has 2 variation : soft giok and hard giok..
1.Soft giok has hardness level under 6 but more than 5.
Example : Green giok or called as Qingyu, green white giok or called as Qingbaiyu, white giok or called as Baiyu, Hetian giok from Xinjiang, Xiuyen giok from East Tiongkok / China, Lantian giok from Shanxi, Dushan giok, Mishan giok from Henanand giok from Gubei. The best giok in this level called Yangzhibaiyu / white sheep fat giok. It is the best giok and very expensive. So if you find this giok, it mean you have your luck....

2.Hard giok or called emerald is the king of giok and the price equal as Rubin and Nilam.
The hardness level range is 6,5 – 7. Emerald was formed in hundred thousand years, even million years, so it is very very seldom and expensive. In China / Tiongkok, there are some famous and high quality giok carving art, such as : Beijing carving art, Yangzhou carving art, Fuzhou carving art and Henan carving art. The best giok carving art is from Beijing, because it was empire inheritance. Yangzhou giok carving art has good quality too.

You can use emerald handicraft as your investation, because the price, the elegance and the art.