Why do Chinese people wear Jade?

Some Chinese people also believed that as contained other good ingredients, wearing a jade could do well to body health, balance Yin and Yang and drive of disease, by abstracting some elements. Jade, also called "Yu" in Chinese, which symbolizes beauty, nobility and purity, were used in many Chinese idioms and phrase to denote beautiful people, their moral and other precious things. "Yu" is also highly taken when parents named their babies, mostly for girls, implying deep blessing for the girls. Confucianism even considered that "an honored man should have virtues of the jade".