The cycle repeats, everything is renewed, there is no birth, there is no prosperity, there is dryness. In the art of jadeite jade carving, in addition to using full of bright green to express vitality, there is also a way to portray vitality from the opposite side, that is, to reflect the imminent prosperity of all things through withered things.
Dryness is a kind of beauty.
Winter is at its end, and the next moment is spring! Su Shi once put forward the idea of "dry water". He believes that the pursuit of indifference, and indifference to the extreme is "dry water", a transcendent beauty. In the "Commentary on Han Liu's Poems", he wrote: "The one who is precious to the dry is said to be dry on the outside and anointed in the middle, like the water and the real beauty." "It's a return to basics.
This jade carving is titled "Thriving", after the leaves have withered, the animals have hibernated, and the earth has fallen silent, the nutrients of all things have accumulated in the harsh winter, and the nascent emerald green is waiting for a moment in this pure, deep darkness. And the jade carver fixes this kind in an eternal way through the beautiful color carving, and uses dryness as beauty, not to portray dryness, but to highlight glory, highlighting the best temporary release time for glory.
Dryness is a kind of realm.
Lao Tzu says, "One yin and one yang are the Tao, followed by goodness, and the nature of the one who becomes." "The ancients called the change in the operation of one yin and one yang the Tao, and man obtained goodness from the change of the Heavenly Dao, and human nature made this goodness given to man by the Heavenly Dao complete and manifest. Chengzhi means that people's acceptance of the goodness of the Heavenly Dao is achieved through human nature.
Ku Rong embodies this value and realm. The Buddhists say that the devil is born from the heart, and this jade carving work "Demon Nature" is to portray the old monk's epiphany in two colors, one white and one black, and to express the two realms of Ku Rong in the hue of the inner changes of the characters, seemingly cold and thin, withered and powerless old monks, but in the spirit and state of mind, there is a condensation of supreme power, to restrain the demons of the heart, and finally return to the road.
Dryness is a stunning color.
For plants, wither is black and brown, it is the survival of life after the loss of life, for nature, dry is snow white, for animals, it is a golden color that expects the sun to shine. The theme of this jade carving work "The Most Beautiful Winter" is that on the ice and snow, countless species are eager to move, and the glory and the withering form an interaction and achieve a beautiful tension. As the saying goes, "If you look at it from its changing one, the heavens and the earth cannot be seen in a moment; and from its unchanging one, things and I are endless." ”
On a certain spiritual level, compared with the fleeting, repetitive, and cruel emerald color of spring, the eternal sense of loneliness in dry winter is an unchangeable prologue that life must experience, and it is easier to resonate with the emotionally delicate literati and jade guests.
Dryness is a kind of power.
Only in the most dry winter can there be the most tenacious vitality; even if the body is aging, it does not prevent life from living brilliantly.
In the flower path, the dry lotus is an extremely important flower material. Whether the leaves have become mottled or the emerald green leaf color has faded, when people face this dry lotus and carefully appreciate its life vein, the mottled and rough have become some kind of life medal.
This jade carving, called "Lotus Rhyme", is still the wind of jade, which has been the same for thousands of years. The lofty and lush lotus, the pavilions, the swaying of the wind, the mud out of the mud without staining the various charms and characters have always been respected. The jade in this work is warm and moist, the shape is in place, the knife marks are strong, the shape is simple, and the lotus leaves are clear, which complement the lotus flowers that are about to bloom, and complement each other, making the whole artifact rigid and soft, and interesting.
Just like the pair of disappearing arms on the statue of Venus, the god of love, she is not only the god of love, the god of beauty, but also the goddess of fertility and navigation, but she has lost the most beautiful arms, the appearance is mutilated, but the spirit is full of the power of time, the eternal power, and the living source of modern humanities and art.
Ku Rong is the highest respect that jade carvers pay to life.