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The ingenuity of the world is brilliant, and the alchemy lamp is the same day and night.
--Yuan Zhao Mengfu, "The Pyrotechnics"
We always think that modern machine production is advanced, ancient manual production is backward, we all know that handicraft is the most attentive, how many exquisite cultural relics have been unearthed over the years, countless ingenious craftsmanship, many modern processes can not be restored, even the concept and design can not be done, can only scream at the finished products made by the ancients:
Beautiful pastel lotus suction cup...
Peerless lonely tea bowl...
Pink crystalline hibiscus stone cockroach ear cover furnace...
Exquisite and matchless tangled peony pattern jade comb...
It is no exaggeration to say that the ancients' clothing, food, housing, and aesthetic taste are more elegant than ours, the degree of refinement is more exquisite than our hearts, and the creative design is better than our thousands. The "small fresh" cultural relics to be introduced today are also very powerful, belonging to the existence of the treasure level of the town hall, but it is actually just a woman's hairpin! This woman is not a queen concubine, not a princess noblewoman, just a nameless concubine!
This cultural relic is the golden cicada jade leaf of the "treasure of Guiyuan" treasured in the Nanjing Museum. Golden cicada jade leaf, as the name suggests that the jade made of leaves stopped on a cicada made of gold, it sounds nothing unusual, after understanding how much it is against the sky, modern people can't think of such a mind, and they can't use such a complex hand to complete the production, too much patience.
From the picture, we can see that the golden cicada shines brightly, the jade leaves are white and transparent, the white background is more prominent, with gold as the visual center, and reflects the warmth of the jade, gold and jade are originally common collocations in ancient times, "Dream of the Red Chamber" Jia Baoyu is not wearing beautiful jade, and Xue Baochao wears a golden lock? Gold and jade are united, and there is a precious and beautiful, happy and perfect good intention.
First of all, the jade leaf, the material used in the jade leaf is Hetian mutton fat white jade, the leaf is divided into eight petals, the same as the true leaf, the middle is the main vein, next to the extension of the 8 branches, as we all know, the vein of the true leaf is concave on both sides of a concave and a convex, this jade leaf is not shoddy fully concave or full convex or even flat treatment, the front is carved into an arc groove, the reverse side is carefully convex, and even the edges of the leaves are polished smoothly, exactly the same as the real leaf!
Jade leaves are also particularly thin, the thickness is only 0.2 cm, the length is only 5.2 cm, such a small piece of jade to rely on artificial to restore the real leaves, the use of a lot of technology, yang line, yin line, flat convex treatment, polishing carefully, carving and grinding kung fu also throws off the modern machine to produce ten thousand streets of it.
Speaking of golden cicadas, golden cicadas are also lifelike, delicate, the wings are not dull, but slightly open, the cicada feet are forward and backward, it looks like it is about to flapping its wings and flying away, but the whole cicada is less than 2 centimeters long, and the cicada wings are as thin as the real cicadas, only 0.2 mm!
The processes used to create the cicada include die casting, thin leaf extension, engraving, welding, and even the beak part of the cicada is taken care of, and any details are not sloppy, but restore the truth. Cicadas are gold, leaves are jade, not only the color is harmonious and beautiful, but also a movement and a static, complement each other, such an aesthetic design, there is no seven tricks of the heart who can think of?
At present, this is the only domestic excavation of the "golden cicada jade leaf", it can be speculated that it is a private customization, but the golden cicada jade leaf is not all the excavated cultural relics, in 1954, the golden cicada jade leaf was found in the Zhang Anwan family cemetery in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Zhang Anwan was a jinshi during the Ming Xiaozong period, there is no fame, there is a wife and three concubines, the golden cicada jade leaf is the silver hairpin part of one of his concubines.
This cultural relic is too exquisite, the meaning is even more admirable, the cicada is also called "knowing", the golden cicada jade leaf is "golden branch jade leaf", which is an absolute compliment for women; the cicada has the meaning of rebirth in ancient times, which shows that Zhang Anwan is careful with this woman; Jin Sheng Yuzhen is the ultimate presentation of Ming Dynasty handicrafts, so this work has surprised countless netizens as soon as it is unearthed and displayed, and it is irreplaceable until now.