在和田玉发展的整个历史中，青玉有着数千年的使用历史，因子量巨大而一直扮演着重要角色，像良渚文化中就有大量的青玉制品。在被视为用玉历史上重要发现的殷墟妇好墓出土玉器，所大量使用的和田玉正是青玉。从商、周至战国，青玉始终是和田玉中使用数量最大的。直至汉代，白玉开始受到重视，但青玉也并没有被潮流淹没，始终在历史舞台中与白玉并行，受到人们的喜爱与推崇。In the whole history of the development of hetian jade, qingyu has been used for thousands of years, playing an important role because of its huge amount. For example, there are a large number of qingyu products in liangzhu culture. The hetian jade that is widely used in excavating jade wares in the tomb of women hao in Yin market, regarded as an important discovery in the history of jade, is green jade. From the shang and zhou dynasties to the warring states period, jade was always the most widely used jade in hetian. Until the han dynasty, white jade began to be valued, but green jade was not submerged by the tide, and it was always accompanied by white jade in the historical stage, which was loved and respected by people.