玉带做为帝王及文武官员服饰的重要组成部分，与金、银、铜、犀、角、铁、木质地的腰带一起，形成区分职官等级高低、官员身份尊卑的标志。它的制作始于唐代，盛于明代却也止于明代。作为琢玉最为繁荣的时代之一，在明时期，玉带板在时间和空间上都有着广泛的分布，因此对明代玉带的研究，不仅仅只是对玉器制造工艺的研究，同时也是对明代政治生活和等级制度等规制的反映。

As an important component of monarch and civil and military officials’ apparel and accessories, the jade belt is one of the symbols that distinguish the rank of officium and Inferiority or superiority of the official’s status, among the golden, silver, copper, rhinoceros horn, oxhorn, iron and wooden belts. The production of jade belt started in the Tang Dynasty, thrived but also ended in the Ming Dynasty. As the most flourishing period of chiseling jade, in the Ming Dynasty, the jade belt distributed temporal and spatial widely. Therefore, researching the jade belt is not only for the workmanship of jadeware, but also for the regulations such as political life and hierarchy in the Ming Dynasty.