We know that twenty years ago, carvings of seed material did not retain the skin. From today's perspective, this is a great loss, because the splendid colors of the skin are hidden like an Armani label. Once hidden, Armani becomes Daphne, and the price plummets with a graceful posture akin to falling off a cliff.
Now it's just the opposite. Materials without skin color, even rotten stones, are all dyed with skin color, because skin color is a characteristic of seed material, and because materials with skin color can be "dazzlingly beautiful enough to make people obsessed." This process by which the skin color conceals the dazzling quality of the jade is precisely a kind of restraint: I am Hetian jade, my inside is brilliant and captivating, but because I am restrained, I choose to use...