The role of jade and historical culture

The Chinese have had the habit of wearing jade since ancient times, and the jade ornaments of various colors for thousands of years are dazzling. After thousands of years of cultural accumulation and precipitation, the jade has also refined many moving legends and allusions, providing a rich theme for jade carving. The auspicious patterns on these jade articles combine the wisdom of the working people and reflect the emotional sustenance of people for a better life, which is widely spread in society.

The map must have an apartment, the house must be auspicious

The theme of jade carving always has a certain meaning. Plants, animals, and the familiar images of everyday life have a unique meaning. Auspicious patterns are a kind of Chinese traditional decorative art graphics. Through the myths and legends of animals, plants, birds, fish, people, gods, saints, immortals, and Buddhas, they are used as a symbol of auspiciousness in the form of images, homophonic, etc. There is a house, and the house will be auspicious." The jade ornament pattern more expresses the desire of people to pursue, to aspire to a better life, to pray for peace, to fill the folk culture, and to conform to people's jade habits. Chinese jade carving jewelry expression techniques are divided into meanings and symbols, Chinese characters, sounds, direct expression, comparison and so on. Common auspicious patterns generally have longevity and more blessings, home and prosperity, Anping Pinghe, career Tengda, and evil-eliminating disasters. In ancient folks, people believed that wearing jade articles would help them avoid evil.

"Jade" means good, avoiding evil spirits

Chinese people have had the habit of wearing jade since ancient times, some are from hobbies, and some are from the best wishes in the heart. Some people hope to help people avoid evil and protect their bodies through jade artifacts, and bring peace, good luck and happiness. Among the jade articles, the more popular ones are the gods of wealth, Guanyin and Luohan. For example, the Jade Buddha and the Jade Goddess of the religious theme have thousands of different forms, and the jade carvings of different Guanyin have different meanings. Nowadays, the popular embossed patterns have begun to appear in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Chinese ancient jade patterns reflect the traditional mentality of people's shunning. The common longevity star is often decorated with the Antarctic fairy Wengtao peach. The jade carving is often used as a material to remind people of their longing for health and longevity. In addition, the boy and the god of wealth together, meaning the boy to send money, there is a big rich and expensive. In ancient times, this festive and peaceful jade auspicious pattern was widely favored from the imperial to the ordinary citizen class.

Animal plant, avatar auspicious

Among the traditional jade ornaments, the zodiac signs, insects and other animals with animals and plants as the main image are also more common. The lotus and the boy are together, which just means the auspicious language of the child. The combination of bamboo and shackles is the meaning of "a blockbuster" and "high rise". The millennium ginseng symbolizes honor, longevity, youthfulness, ginseng and life, ginseng and wishful patterns symbolize healthy and longevity, meaning auspicious.

Jade, in the eyes of Westerners, is just a beautiful stone. However, in the Chinese, it has a special unusual meaning. It has infiltrated the blood of this nation, condensed a civilization, and formed a cultural heritage over time.

"The love of stone is jade", this is the solution that Xu Shen made for jade in Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Jade, really beautiful. The natural stone condenses the essence of the heavens and earth, infiltrating a moist light, letting the mold stand out among the many stones. Its beauty is not only recognized by the Chinese, but also by other people in the world.

There are many countries producing jade in the world, and the United States, Canada, and Russia have produced. The Mayan civilization, which lasted for four thousand years, has a jade technology that is comparable to that of China at the same time. No matter its styling ability or production process, it is not inferior. However, no matter how advanced the technology is, jade, in their eyes, is nothing but a beautiful stone, and its jade tradition is also interrupted by the demise of the Mayan civilization.

However, in the eyes of the Chinese, jade is not only beautiful, but also has a special unusual meaning.

Artifacts of heaven and earth

In the distant prehistoric period, beautiful and hard jade is an artifact that communicates with heaven. At that time, people could not use their own thinking to explain the land on which they depended. They regarded the master's knife as the heavenly will, and these beautiful, rare, precious, even ordinary metal tools. The harder natural jade is considered to be God's gift to the earth. Hominids believed that jade body, Yun mysterious psychic caste.

The original surface sacrifice activities, surrounded by people in the face of jade symbol of the will of God, pray to the gods to the well-being comes upon them.

From time immemorial out of ignorance, increasing the ability of human beings also start from the original scattered tribes ruled the country toward unity. In countries ruled by the king of hope, although no longer a symbol of ancient jade witchcraft, still exudes look mysterious light.

During this period, the king's authority to continue to highlight in the jade, stone and let those carrying the most sacred meaning.

Wang Hao, Yu Hu, Yu Gui, etc. were used as rituals in various ceremonies. The large jade, which was placed in a prominent position in the sacrifices, far exceeded the jade itself.

Jade, this beautiful stone, was also given a strict hierarchical concept in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It is the most conspicuous decoration of the king and the nobility. The color, size and shape of each jade symbolize different levels.

The merchants are cruel but love jade. Even when they are defeated, they still do not forget to "burn the jade four thousand" at the same time.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the famous Hessian was finally carved into the national ancestor by Emperor Qin Shihuang, hoping to use this god jade's divine power to bless his mountains and rivers.

It is now housed in the 25 treasures of the Qing Dynasty in the Palace of the Thai Palace, 23 of which are all jade.

Noble quality avatar

"Wenrun is, Ren is also", "neighboring, wisdom is also", "firm but not ambiguous, righteous", "clear but not old, OK."

China pioneer Confucianism Confucius very timely manner according to the prevailing ideas of your people jade, jade gives eleven good moral character, which completely changed the way people use the connotation of jade, which was completely enveloped in the light of one kind of humanism It is filled with a noble sense of morality and a rich ethical spirit.

In Confucius's view, the beautiful jade, due to the gift of heaven, naturally condenses the eleven qualities that are consistent with the good character of the gentleman. These qualities are the highest realm of the gentleman's lifelong pursuit and comparison and learning.

The gentleman is better than the jade, the jade is not only a symbol of identity, a representative of the kingship, but also an incarnation of morality. Gentlemen should be Pei Yu to cleanse and be clear, and no jade will go away. The gentleman's style of jade is also prevalent.

Those gentlemen who wear jade ornaments are more respectful about the posture of jade, even if they walk even the steps will be limited. Raise your hand and let the jade collide with a crisp and rhythmic sound, purify the soul, convey the highest ritual connotation, and let the whole society standardize in harmony and order in the rhythmic voice. People have evolved from a blind worship to a rational reverence for jade, and their cultural connotations are becoming more abundant and heavy.

Longevity and evil spirits

In the inheritance of jade culture in China for nearly 10,000 years, not only is the influence of Confucianism influenced by jade culture, but also its main carrier. Although it has not become the mainstream of Chinese jade culture.

Under the influence of Taoist thought, the Han people believed that jade is the essence of nature, a supernatural spirit that has life, can grow, can be psychic, and can fly. After the death of a person, as long as you wear the knowledge of the jade stone called "Jade", you can retain the essence of the human body, so that the soul can be attached to the immortal body, and the eternal life can be obtained in the afterlife.

And this kind of jade can make people's immortal ideas, and people gradually give the jade device the function of flooding evil spirits. Gang Yan Yan, Weng Zhong and Sinan Pei, are the three treasures of the evil spirits used by the Han people to escape the disaster.