Look closely at the work, there is an elephant below and a monkey on top, and the monkey rides on top of the elephant.
What do you mean, is it the Monkey King?
This is called the Worship of the Marquis.
A work holds people a beautiful sustenance, in fact, it is the same as the mobile phone forwarding koi, praying before the examination, this is not a feudal superstition, she is a kind of good wish sustenance.
If you have friends who know the history of Chinese jade, jade as a ceremonial vessel, to symbolize authority, and then to later into people, is given a lot of worldly and beautiful meanings.
Successive years of great noble pendants, spring water jade pendants, autumn water jade pendants, immediately sealed marquis, green lion white elephant, seahorse negative book, etc. represent beautiful meanings, pinning people's emotions.
Jade, as a useless thing, is more representative of people's emotional sustenance, hoping that their husbands are safe, hoping that their children are happy, and hoping that they will be happy.
It's just that different times, different ways of expression, now one way of expression has changed, like ping'an buckle, no matter card, Guanyin, Buddha, Fudou, Ruyi, bamboo knot and so on. The meaning of the expression is easy to understand.
Previously, a carver communicated with us about the meaning of carving, and he believed that most of the current works are extremely commercial, even if the emotional sustenance is extremely straightforward.
It is true that on a spiritual level, we are largely inferior to the ancients, we are extremely barren, and when we express our expectations, they are direct and implicit.
In fact, this is also different times represent different ways of expression, I am difficult to measure the quality of the two before, I can only say that in this regard I envy the ancients, for example, a spring water jade pendant, the little Hai Dongqing caught a swan much larger than her own size, she represents the brave, dare to fight spirit.
Different times, different cultural expressions, this belongs to the torrent of the times, each of us in the torrent of the times is extremely small, there is no way to control, the only thing that can be done is to let it stay for a while.