Liu Datong (a jade collector of the Qing Dynasty) recorded several of his observations in the chapter "Ancient Jade Defense" in his book "Ancient Jade Discernment".
One of them is an old man bathing in the bath pond, when he came out of the bath, he suddenly fainted and fell to the ground, and the person next to him saw the situation and rushed to help him up, and after lifting up, he found that the old man was unharmed, but the jade bracelet on his right arm was broken.
There is also news that an old man accidentally fell down the stairs, and after lifting up, he found that the old man was not in serious trouble, but the jade that had been worn for many years was broken.
As the old saying goes: People raise jade for three years, and jade raises people for a lifetime. In other words, is jade really so magical?
Jade can produce jade?
In the book "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is recorded that the jade of Jinyu is good, and the jade of Jin Yu is good, and the grain is precise... It means that jade can be planted and then born;
There is also a record of jade in the Book of Search for God, saying that Yang Boyong planted a bean stone in Zhongnan Mountain, and a few years later, the jade was born on the stone, and later he obtained five pairs of white bi in the jade field.
If jade can produce jade, don't we all take jade to plant?
Of course not, we all know now that jade is non-renewable and non-recyclable, and that jade can produce jade is pure nonsense.
Can jade be edible?
When the ancient ancestors sacrificed, they would choose jade as a sacrifice, only because the legend says that the gods only ate the pure and pure jade. Later, there was a legend that taking jade could make people feather and ascend to immortality.
The poet Qu Yuan said in the "Nine Chapters of Wading the River" that "Deng Kunlun eats jade, compares life with heaven and earth, and qi guang with the sun and moon", which is probably the earliest record of jade eating in history.
The Zhou Li Tianguan Yufu also records: "Wang Qi, then eat jade together";
Ge Hongyan "takes the blood-stained jade of the insects as water, so it can ride on the smoke up and down", he believes that taking jade can make people "take the smoke up and down" and "feather into immortals".
Although these legends seem ridiculous to us now, until now there are still people who wonder: can jade be eaten?
Some people think that it can be eaten, on the grounds that it is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": jade, in addition to the heat in the stomach, wheezing and fullness, quenching thirst, crumbs such as hemp beans to serve, long serving light body for many years ...
Sister Lin, I really can't help but sigh, for traditional culture, we can't blindly believe, or that sentence, to treat traditional culture, we have to "take its essence, go to its dross." ”
Although jade does contain a variety of trace elements, but we really do not need to eat jade to obtain these trace elements, usually normal diet can completely ensure the intake of appropriate amounts of trace elements.
In today's developed science and medicine, jade has long been considered inedible, eating will not only damage human health, but also cause life danger when the situation is serious.
Therefore, jade is absolutely not edible!
Jade can nourish the face?
According to legend, there was a famous singer in Li Tang, Pang Sanniang, who was originally old and faded, but she added jade to her daily makeup and beauty supplies, making herself look like a young girl.
Since then, the beauty effect of jade has not gone away.
It is recorded in the "Records of Imperial Fragrance" that Empress Dowager Cixi massaged her face every day to nourish her face, and believed that it was the beauty effect of Hetian Jade that made Cixi, who was in her sixties, still have delicate skin like a girl.
In modern times, there is also a special use of jade massage scraping craftsmanship, so can jade really nourish the face?
Modern medicine has found that the trace elements contained in pure natural jade that are beneficial to the human body can indeed be absorbed by the skin under certain temperature conditions, and jade without radiation has a health care effect on the human body.
But it is also risky, because we cannot guarantee that the jade used is radiation-free. Therefore, Sister Lin is more willing to attribute the legendary jade's "beauty-nourishing" effect to the massage of the face, which promotes blood circulation on the face.
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Many legends are based on the worship and love of jade by the ancients, so we cannot blindly believe the legends about jade, and we must use modern science and medicine to correctly understand and look at such legends, so as to have our own thinking and judgment.
Finally, what other legends have you heard about jade? Come to the comments section and let me know.~