中国从原始社会开始生产玉器,随着社会生产力的发展,逐步形成了独立的专业,多集中于畿、都邑,自宋至清,苏州成为全国性的制玉中心。历代王室朝廷皆设有玉器作坊.进行生产。因玉硬度较高,加工时需要特殊的工具和方法,故加工过程大体有选料、画样、锯料、做坯、打钻、 China began to produce jade articles from its primitive society. With the development of social productive forces, it gradually formed its own independent professionalism and concentrated in the areas of capital and metropolitan areas. Since the Song and Qing dynasties, Suzhou became the national jade center. Imperial court have all the ancient jade workshop. Due to the high hardness of jade, processing requires special tools and methods, so the process generally have choice of materials, painting samples, sawing, blank, drilling,