The many jade objects of the New Stone Age, especially the flood of Liangzhu artifacts, not only prove that the Chinese began to adore jade long before the Hsia, Shang and Chou era; the techniques for fashioning jade that were employed five thousand years ago still draw the admiration of people living today.
許多新石器時期的玉器，特別是良渚玉的大量出土，不僅證明瞭遠在三代之前中國人已經開始有愛玉的風氣，距今五千年前的制玉技術，也叫今人大為嘆服。