In the process of the development of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, jade not only represents the artistic achievements of different historical periods, but also a true portrayal of ancient Chinese social culture.
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Jade Spirit - Psychic, sacrificial jade
In the initial stage of the emergence of jade, it was mainly used for ornaments, but the meaning it conveyed went beyond the scope of ornaments, and the original ancestors believed that jade had the function of theosophy, and the use of jade to worship the god was one of the important roles of jade. It has formed a sacred jade culture of "using jade to do things" and "sacrificing heaven and earth with jade".
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The virtue of jade - ceremonial, funeral jade
The political unity and economic prosperity of the Han Dynasty ushered in an important period for the development of jade tools. The Han Dynasty "deposed hundreds of families and exalted Confucianism alone" in the ideological field, which determined the dominance of Confucianism in the field of political thought. The Confucian admiration for jade continued as always, and the culture of peiyu was further developed in the Han Dynasty. Because the ruling class advocated filial piety, thick burials prevailed in the Han Dynasty, and the custom of burying jade flourished.
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Jade shine - wear ornaments, decorative jade
After the Tang and Song dynasties, the high economic development promoted the unprecedented prosperity of culture. The collision and exchange with foreign cultures has made the mystery of jade tools no longer exist, and the function of ritual has also taken a back seat. Jade ware has completed the transformation to secularization and daily use of life.
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Jade Hua - decoration, elegant play with jade
The jade carving process of the Ming and Qing dynasties reached the extreme of Chinese jade carvers, and also created a number of jade craftsmen with extraordinary skills. The Ming and Qing dynasties have sufficient jade materials and excellent materials, and the jade ware production is characterized by decoration, appreciation and decoration, forming jade-making centers such as Suzhou and Yangzhou, and the process has reached the extreme of Chinese jade carving.
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Without aesthetics, knowledge cannot be saved.
An ancient jade collector with a good aesthetic perception or aesthetic awareness must have better conditions and advantages than others in his appreciation of ancient jade. For as a true collector, what he finds in his collection should first and foremost be an aesthetic value as a work of art, not just a focus on the price factor in the field of circulation. Only with such a position and perspective can his collection and appreciation enter a new and higher level.
Quality
The continuous discovery and cognition of materials by the ancients reflects the continuous understanding of beauty and the continuous summarization and improvement of aesthetic perception ability of the ancestors. "Beautiful stone is jade", that is the perception of the embodiment of jade. "Warm as jade" is a further revelation of the inner beauty of jade. Confucius, on the other hand, referred to jade as virtue and listed qualities such as "gentle and lustrous", "its sound is clear", "qi is like a white rainbow", and completed the entire process of approving the aesthetics of jade.
It can be seen that the ancients' choice of jade was first recognized from the material. The true beauty of ancient jade must embody the good intentions of the ancients, and its texture must have the imprint of the times on the one hand, and on the other hand, the first visual feeling given to people is harmonious and warm.
Shape
The shape of ancient jade is not only the need of the ancient jade system and the idea of using jade, but also the concentrated embodiment of the aesthetic concepts of the ancients. Whether it is Witch Jade, Divine Jade or Wang Jade and the age of secularized jade, the shape of jade is an aesthetic product of the ancients' high imagination of theocracy, life and nature. Therefore, each ancient jade vessel is a work of art carefully conceived and skillfully carved by the jade smith, rather than a sloppy and random decoration. It must be spiritual, vivid, and harmonious in its whole, not blunt, sluggish, rigid.
The shape and beauty of ancient jade is not only intuitive, but also has its rich connotation beauty. It is not only superficial, but also contains profound historical and humanistic aesthetic value.
From this point of view, if you collect some "ancient jade" of another type: the shape of the round carved pieces is strange and eye-catching, the proportion of the ornaments is out of proportion and awkward, and the animal pieces are sluggish and lack charm, then, nine times out of ten, you are unfortunate enough to "take medicine" or "stroke"!
Beautiful
Color beauty actually contains two meanings: one is the natural beauty of jade, and the other is the beauty of ancient jade. It should be said that as long as any of these two meanings have any kind of aesthetic requirements, then such ancient jade is beautiful jade.
The formation process of ancient jade and qin color is a deep imprint on the annual rings of history. In it, it undoubtedly contains a rich and vast amount of information such as social humanities, history, geology, physics, chemistry, aesthetics, customs, etc., which records the vicissitudes of social development, reflects the turbulence of the times, and shows the various magical evolutions given by nature. Therefore, the qin color of ancient jade should be multi-angle, multi-level and three-dimensional for our aesthetic perception.
For a long time, some people have regarded Qinse as a kind of pathological beauty, which the author believes violates both the principles of materialism and the diversity of aesthetics. And the requirement of blindly seeking whiteness has a more or less secular tendency.
It can be seen that Qinse beauty needs to cross two barriers for ancient jade collection: establishing aesthetic standards for Qinse beauty and understanding the true connotation of Qinse beauty. The Qin color of the real ancient jade should be rich, changeable and natural, it can not only give people a colorful aesthetic feeling, but also let people appreciate a vicissitudes of the breath, if you really want to say morbid, the "Qin color" of fake ancient jade is "worthy of the name". But you must know that even so, sometimes there is only one step between beauty and pathology.
Artwork
Often when admiring an ancient jade, I always feel the same as the scene I feel when reading the "Book of Poetry" when I read "like a cut and a mill", which is in line with the scene I feel when I read it. The beauty of craftsmanship also bears the imprint of the times. But the craftsmanship of each era has its own beauty.
Therefore, to some extent, the appreciation of the beauty of ancient jade craftsmanship is also a review of historical productivity and aesthetic concepts of different eras. The tools of the Stone Age were rudimentary, so their craftsmanship should be clumsy and primitive; the craftsmanship of the Bronze Age began to develop to fine, and after the invention of iron tools, its craftsmanship became more and more exquisite.
Simplicity is a kind of beauty, refinement is a kind of beauty, simplicity is a kind of beauty, and prosperity is also a kind of beauty. It's just that each kind of beauty gives people a different feeling. Therefore, if we use those various kinds of beauty to compare all kinds of ancient jade counterfeits, you will find that imitating the Western Zhou Dynasty, you can't find the smooth and graceful slope of the oblique knife; the imitation of the Spring and Autumn Period, can not find the kind of gorgeous and regular ground picking and pressing bas-relief; imitation of the Warring States, the grain pattern is smooth, and the feeling of tying hands can no longer be found; imitating the Western Han Dynasty, the lines are clumsy and rough, and there is no sign of a gossamer-like jumping knife...
In short, without the elegance of Yin Shang, the prosperity of Spring and Autumn, the extravagance of Han Gong, the exquisiteness of Wei and Jin, and the roundness of Sui and Tang Dynasties, then imagine, what beauty is there such "ancient jade"?
Aesthetic perception is a very important process or link in the collection of ancient jade. Therefore, how to be good at paying attention to the public number ancient jade identification and discovering the connotation of ancient jade and the United States and continuously improving their aesthetic perception of ancient jade collection has become an important topic for every ancient jade collector and researcher.
Only in this way can the status of ancient jade in the ranks of artworks be truly established, the collection of ancient jade become a culture, and the aesthetic value, historical and humanistic value and economic value of ancient jade can be fully explored and increasingly valued and recognized by people.