According to the "Five Classics of Tongyi and Ritual", "Jade has five virtues: gentle and lustrous, similar to wisdom; sharp but not harmful, similar to benevolence; or not scratching, similar to righteousness; flawed in the inside, must be seen outside, like faith; hanging like falling, like etiquette."
From this record, it can be seen that the ancients had long discussed the virtue and jade quality of a gentleman.
As we all know, jade culture has existed for a long time in the historical process of our country, and it also has a high research and collection value, so the Chinese people have an unusual love for jade since ancient times, such as warm as jade, golden jade full hall and golden jade good words and other idioms, referring to the best symbols.
Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards today, people are more and more fond of collecting some antiques, and for many collectors, jade collection is undoubtedly one of the more important parts.
So, to what extent do Chinese like jade? In fact, Chinese's love for jade has been very strong since ancient times.
First, Chinese's love for jade has existed since ancient times
The status of jade in China is really not low, and it also occupies a very important role in the origin of civilization in china. As mentioned earlier, jade has five virtues, namely benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, courage, and purity. And because of these five virtues, jade has been considered a gentleman's thing since ancient times. People attached the chastity and flawlessness of jade to the virtue of a gentleman, and later there was also a saying that "a gentleman has no reason, and the jade does not leave the body".
In fact, as early as the early Neolithic period 8,000 years ago, the Chinese ancestors had already discovered the beauty of jade, so they carved jade, which was still used as a sacrifice, a charm and a funeral article.
The reason for this is because the ancient ancestors believed that the jade of the outer circle and the inner circle was a thing of ceremonial land, which was consistent with the primitive cosmic concept of the heavenly circle place, and it was precisely because of this relationship that the ancient people thought that jade could communicate with heaven and earth.
With the development of the times, jade also began to become more in the upper class, and later, jade began to be used as a symbol of status and power, it can be said that the value of a good jade is not exaggerated.
In the Two Han Dynasties, jade became the burial utensils held by the princes and nobles, and was brought to the tomb by the princes and nobles, and it was from this that there was a saying that evil jade was repelled. Later, jade carving technology continued to advance, and various types of jade appeared, and even some nobles would decorate the best jade on the sword and call it a jade sword.
In the Tang Dynasty, because people were more influenced by Buddhism, many people began to carve jade in the direction of Buddhism, and our very common jade Buddha, jade Guanyin, etc. began to appear from this period, and it can be said that each one is expensive.
However, although the ancient people had a very deep jade culture for jade, after it was passed down to modern times, most of these civilizations that seem to be jade itself have been ignored, and today's people are more aware of the types and values of jade for jade.
However, it is precisely because of this that the value of today's jade has increased unabated, and those best jades are even worth a sky-high price in the antique world, such as the blood jade that this article will talk about!
Second, precious and rare red jade - blood jade
The so-called blood jade, one of the more mysterious is not the red jade produced in the snowy plateau of Tibet, and the reason why it is called blood jade is because the color of the jade is yin red.
I believe that readers who understand the types of jade should be clear that this kind of natural Qin color jade is relatively rare, and those jade that form "blood Qin" are very rare. In the historical data, only when Songzan Gampo married Princess Wencheng, there were records of blood jade.
And it is precisely because of the rarity of blood jade that its value will be precious and abnormal, so once it appears, there will be collectors who spend a lot of money to buy.
In modern times, there have also been blood jades, and they are still huge blood jade weighing eighteen tons! According to experts, this piece of jade is due to carbonate deposition and the influence of magnesium, which will eventually show the color of blood jade. And experts also value it at more than 300 million!
However, do not think that the formation of this blood jade is very simple from a scientific point of view, but it is very reasonable to know that this jade needs to be formed after hundreds of millions of years, so it is also very reasonable for experts to estimate it at more than 300 million.
In addition to this red jade created by nature, there is also a kind of red jade that has been "processed" by humans, and this jade can really be called blood jade!
The formation process of this blood jade is somewhat terrifying, it was originally a relatively common jade in the world, but when some jade is used as a funerary product, it will be used as a jade object when people are buried, and it will be forcibly stuffed into the dead population, and if the person just died not long ago, the jade will fall into the throat with the air, if it is placed for a thousand years, then the blood that wrapped the jade will go straight to the jade heart, thus forming a gorgeous blood jade.
Whether it is jadeite, Khotan, or other jade such as topaz, any jade that is soaked in blood is blood jade. And this blood jade is also the most precious of all the corpse jade plugs. If it is priced according to quality, it can be as little as a few thousand, and as many as a million!
However, don't look at the formation process of this blood jade does not sound very auspicious, but in the collection world, this blood jade is also valuable and marketless. However, in the market, blood jade appears from time to time, and even a lot of it, but the formation time of this blood jade is not short, where are so many blood jade?
In fact, the high price of blood jade has triggered the emergence of many people who try to make profits, because the price of blood jade is extremely high, so those who counterfeit cultural relics have also begun to "think of ways", and their approach can really be said to be all-purpose!
Third, in order to forge blood jade, the means of lawbreakers are heinous
In order to create a forged blood jade, those criminals who specialize in forging cultural relics can be said to have tried all kinds of methods, and they really let them find a blood jade that is difficult to distinguish between true and false in a short period of time! However, I believe that when you readers understand the formation process of this blood jade, you will feel angry at the behavior of these lawbreakers!
Ma Weidu, a famous collector of cultural relics in China, once introduced to people a cruel method used by lawbreakers to make blood jade! They first cut open the body of the live sheep, then forcefully stuffed a large amount of ordinary jade into it, then sewed its wound to maintain the life of the sheep, and then removed it after three years.
After three years of soaking in the blood of live sheep, the jade at that time has been soaked in sheep's blood, thus carrying a natural and bright red vein, and it is difficult for general identification experts to distinguish its authenticity, and the blood jade that takes three years to make, as long as it can be fake and real, then it can generally sell at a sky-high price!
I have to say that the behavior of these cultural relics counterfeiters is really bottomless, and they actually thought of using live sheep to satisfy their selfish desires to accumulate wealth! This kind of counterfeiting process feels cruel even if you just imagine it, and several pieces of foreign objects have to be sewn into your body for up to three years, and even cut twice on the way to achieve the effect, and the pain is really unimaginable.
However, in fact, these jade stones made of live sheep are not only very cruel, but also have no value in themselves, and pity the lambs who are persecuted and tortured by the lawbreakers!
It is worth mentioning that in addition to using the body of the sheep to forge blood jade, some criminals will also use uric acid to forge, although the process is very disgusting, but the cost is low and the price is high, so there are still many criminals who have embarked on the road of forging blood jade in this way. It's hard to imagine what would have been thought of those deceived buyers who knew that their favorite blood jade had been made in this way.
And those who use the flesh and blood of sheep to forge a fraud are trampling on life! It is impossible to experience its brutality and blood without witnessing it with only words, and the vicious faces of those outlaws are like those emotionless executioners, and the mutilation of life is simply common for them. I hope that such a bad behavior can be stopped as soon as possible!
brief summary
For the use of live sheep to forge blood jade, in addition to sympathizing with the innocent victim sheep, we should also realize that such market chaos and cultural destruction are heartbreaking!
The counterfeiting of cultural relics is not a trivial matter, this is a very shameless act of disrespecting cultural relics and destroying Chinese civilization, as a cultural relics forger, you should be condemned and flogged by the entire nation! Not to mention the forgery carried out by such a egregious means.
Only when these counterfeiters are truly taken seriously and brought to justice can they let other cultural relics dealers on the black market realize the seriousness of the problem of cultural relics forgery, can they really play an effective deterrent and restraining role in their behavior, and can they further improve the cultural relics protection system!
At the same time, I can't help but sigh that the water of antique collection is indeed deep, and I remind antique collectors that if they are inexperienced, when encountering relevant optimistic antiques, it is best to find professionals to help appreciate it, do not end up with two people and money, so as not to promote the arrogance of those cultural relics forgers, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone!
Reference: The Five Classics of Righteousness and Etiquette
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