"Turning Gange into Jade", "White Jade Flawless", "Returning to Zhao", etc. all show that the ancient people's love for jade has long penetrated into all aspects of life and has become an indispensable part of Chinese culture.
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Jade now exists as a luxury, in ancient times, it was something that only the nobles of the imperial palace could have, and there were very few good jades, and jade was sought after by everyone for its appearance and precious rarity. No matter who it is, I think the love for jade should be the same, good jade into the country is a heavy weapon, into the family is an heirloom. Jade in ancient times is also a symbol of status, given different meanings, we also like to match jade with virtue, gentlemen should have noble qualities, so that jade in our country has a deep traditional cultural significance and oriental spiritual color.
Chinese jade has a history of 7000 to 8000 years, the earliest discovered in the primitive society in the early Neolithic period, China is the world's most jade-using country, jade culture is no less than silk culture, tea culture and wine culture and so on. Therefore, since ancient times, jade has been deeply loved by people, and Confucius once proposed that jade has eleven virtues of "benevolence, etiquette, righteousness, knowledge, faith, heaven, earth, Tao, virtue, loyalty, and music", all of which summarize our people's virtues from the characteristics of jade itself, and echo with jade.
Jade is linked to beautiful things, because in people's hearts, they feel that such a beautiful thing should have an auspicious meaning, such as "golden jade full of halls, ice and jade clean, jade trees linfeng" and so on. Just as the so-called "jade is not a tool", a good piece of jade can not better present the charm and value of jade, and the ancients will also "jade is not a tool" For example, if people do not study hard, they will not understand the same reason.
Jade has existed for such a long time and produced many stories, how many do you know?
Return to Zhao
During the Warring States period, King Huiwen of Zhao had a piece of Heshi Bi, and King Qin Zhao also wanted to get it, so he said that he wanted to exchange it for fifteen cities, and Zhao Guo could see that Qin Guo wanted to empty gloves and white wolves, so he sent Lin Xiangru forward, and later, Lin Xiangru saw through the tricks of Qin Guo, so he recaptured Heshi Bi and returned to Zhao Guo, and returned to Zhao.
Nuwa makes up the heavens
According to legend, Nuwa practiced the five-colored stone in order to supplement the heavens, which is the predecessor of jade, and Nuwa scattered the remaining five-colored stones to the earth to nourish all things. It can be seen that our love for jade is also indispensable in legends and stories.
Dream
The Dream of the Red Chamber was originally called "Stone Record", one of the four famous works, a work related to jade. Start with a small stone and end with the disappearance of the stone. A critique of traditional society through the "psychic treasure jade".
Jade has accompanied us since ancient times, and we associate it with noble virtues, place a high status, and are willing to give it a mysterious color. Craftsmen also use superb skills to carve jade, giving jade more charm and value. There are also many types of ancient jade.
Jade Bi: Flat round, there is a round hole in the middle, I think it should be the most common, I often wore this kind of jade when I was a child, to raise jade with people, to raise people with jade.
Jade (cong): A cylindrical jade vessel with a round outer square and a circle of different lengths.
Yu Chun (image from the Internet)
Jade: Jade carved into the shape of a tiger.
Yuzhang: The shape is similar to Gui, with only a diagonal edge above.
Yuzhang (image from the Internet)
Thousands of years of development history, so that the variety of jade, ancient people believe that all things have aura, and jade with its appearance and rarity, will naturally be pushed to the stage of history, deeply loved by people.