With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, all aspects of the Winter Olympics have also become the focus of people's attention. The medal design of this Winter Olympic Games echoes the medal "Gold and Jade" of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, showing the cultural heritage of the "City of The Two Olympics".
It is reported that according to the concept of "Cangbi Litian, Huang Chun Lidi", the medal of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games has created a medal design scheme with Yubi and Yuqun as the basic shape, and has made breakthroughs in form optimization and the selection of new materials.
Medals at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Why is Yu Chun used the Winter Olympic medal as the main element?
The highest specification ceremonial vessel
Record the inheritance of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization
According to research, in the heyday of Yu chun in the Liangzhu era, it was the highest embodiment of the condensation of Chinese jade culture. Liangzhu Yuqun has a large number of surviving and exquisite workmanship, and the earliest Yuzhu is found in the third phase of xuejiagang culture in Qianshan, Anhui, dating back to about 5100 years ago.
"Zhou Li" said: "Cang Bi Li Tian, Huang Zhen Li Di". As the highest standard ceremonial vessel in China, the jade is the tangible carrier of politics, economy and culture in various periods, and is also regarded as a symbol of power, status and wealth.
Compared with the actual use of the jade seal exclusively by the emperor and the order of the plutonium seal, the jade seal is not shackled by the actual use, and it is more of an image symbol that represents and symbolizes the dynasty or country at that time.
Yu chun not only reproduces the long and splendid prehistoric culture of China's southeast coastal area, but more importantly, it shows the world an ancient, thick and brilliant ancient Chinese civilization.
Treasure of the town hall of the museum
A piece of jade that is now in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum is a typical representative of Liangzhu jade, which is known as the King of Jade Because of its size, weight and ornamentation, which are the best in existence. As a symbol of Liangzhu civilization, it is the first batch of cultural relics on the mainland that are forbidden to go abroad, and it is a veritable national treasure cultural relic.
Yu Chun Wang Zhejiang Provincial Museum
In addition to the world-famous "Yu Chun King", in the world's major museums, as long as it involves Chinese history and culture or Chinese jade culture, there are Yu Chun figures. Moreover, each piece of the Jade Chun collection is very characteristic of the times, and even more so, it has become the treasure of the museum.
Yu Chun 19
At present, the highest jade quince seen in China
Collection of the National Museum of China
To this day, it is no exaggeration to say that there are very few museums without Yu Chun.
Yu Chun Collection of the British Museum
Neolithic Period Qi family culture Jade Chun
Collection of the Freer Museum of Art, USA
Highly favored
Standing at the tip of the pyramid of the collectible market
Chinese people love jade for a long time. Jade, which carries a thousand years of cultural history, as one of the important categories of art collection, is hot in the auction market year by year, and more and more collectors have begun to devote themselves to it, and phenomena such as sky-high transactions and record-breaking abound.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was also a famous courtier and a collector of treasures
Neolithic Liangzhu culture beast face pattern jade
It won HK$9,655,000
Therefore, the types of jade that flow to the market are becoming more and more abundant and diversified, and the jade, as the highest specification ceremonial vessel, naturally becomes a high-end collection competed by collectors in the auction market, especially the Liangzhu culture's god-man beast face jade, which is a star-rated high ancient jade, which has become the focus almost every time it appears, and the more complicated the process, the more layers, the higher the price.
In 2018, Hong Kong's Bonhams Spring auctioned a double-layered jade piece
HK$21.7 million sold
In 2019, Christie's Hong Kong "Jade Feast in the Clouds" special session
The three-tiered jade chun changed hands for HK$31.3 million
Judging from the existing market data, as a carrier of historical and cultural inheritance, Yu chun has been standing at the top of the pyramid of the collection market, setting one auction record after another, and becoming a favorite darling of the market and collectors.