Shang Dynasty jade cicada in China's archaeological excavations, in Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei these places have been excavated, for us to identify the social culture of the jade cicada provided a standard, from these jade cicadas we see the jade cicada from the prehistoric culture transition to the Shang Zhou period of some changes in the law, social relics lost in the folk, jade sea ups and downs, it is difficult to determine to find his corresponding excavation address, can only rely on these unearthed standards to be judged, Shang Dynasty jade cicada and prehistoric culture of the Hongshan culture, The comparative study of jade cicadas unearthed from Shijiahe culture is more complex in form and more close to the figurative expression of cicadas, although it is still abstract and exaggerated, but the lines are smooth and the characteristics are obvious. At the same time, it also plays a role in the inheritance of cicada culture in jade culture, and has important and positive significance for the study of jade cicada culture in previous dynasties.
Jade cicadas excavated from Taixi Village, Gaocheng County, Hebei Province, in the late Shang Dynasty
From this jade cicada of the late Shang Dynasty unearthed from Taixi Village, Gaocheng County, Hebei Province, we can compare the orderly jade cicada shape system circulated in social cultural relics:
In the late Shang Dynasty, white jade round carved cicada-shaped pendants were handed down
The jade cicada and hebei Gaocheng excavated jade cicada comparative study, the shape of the system is highly consistent, the main features are obvious, the similarity is very high, the white jade texture, the overall round carving, the shape surface is ivory yellow, there are irregular Qin colors, there is brown Qin black mercury Qin is very integrated into one color, antique, cicada oval, the head left and right have double hook Yang line eye ornamentation, the back neck has a double hook Yang line string pattern, the abdomen has three yin carved line ornaments, the neck has a pair of piercing horseshoe holes, the whole is made of stone wheels to solve the jade sand polishing hole, The process and discoloration of the jade cicada are obvious, which is the style of the jade cicada in the late Shang Dynasty.