Liangzhu Yuzhu is decorated as the collection of Jai Aesthetics
Today's men and women, many people have some beaded jewelry, which can be decorated and played. People wear different objects according to their preferences, sending them to specific meanings, making them the sustenance of the emotional soul. The charms do have "life", and different people wear them, wear them for different lengths, and all show different results. People often like the new, but the longer they love such objects, the more they love.
Hand-strung beads are optional, as a plaything, some people play with walnuts, some people play with gourds, some people play with wooden strings, and some people play with gem strings. Speaking of it, it can meet the needs of different groups of people, the low price of 10 yuan can be obtained, spending three or two hundred can also buy a good string of wooden hand strings, 1,800 can buy a good quality bodhi string, Vajra string and so on. These are not expensive, and there is no burden to wear and play with every day. Gemstone bead bracelets often have huge price differences, low hundreds of yuan, expensive tens of thousands of thousands, it is necessary to know how to distinguish between good and bad. There are many categories that can do jewelry, and the colors are also colorful, crystal, tourmaline, coral, southern red, amber, agate, lapis lazuli, brick, fish bone, ivory, turquoise, malachite, obsidian, want to fully understand, identify high and low grades, it is impossible to do a lot of effort.
People are often addicted to the material of the charm, the more scarce and expensive, the more they want to have. The same crystal bead, the price of different colors is very different. The price of a string of pure white crystals is only a few hundred yuan, but a string of green ghost crystals cannot be selected for thirty or twenty thousand. As for the hair crystals with needles in the crystals, the price is even higher, often tens of thousands, and a string of copper hair crystals or titanium crystals is as high as 200,000-300,000. A string of tourmalines of good color can often be easily sold for hundreds of thousands. Is there really such a big difference between them?
But all veteran players are no longer obsessed with materials, and have begun to pursue the culture behind the charms. Some of the old Rosary Beads and Old Dzi that have passed through the ages have become ornaments that many people chase and collect. Therefore, when many people see hand strings and necklaces, they think of "Buddha beads", so it is natural to think that the beads originated from Buddhism at the earliest, which is extremely incorrect. According to archaeological research, the earliest known beads can be traced back to the Stone Age. There is detailed physical evidence of the Liangzhu culture jade ornaments of the Neolithic period, which was the divine jade period, and the jade undertook the role of communicating with the heavens and communicating with the gods, and was an artifact that people worshiped.
Of course, the influence of Buddhist beads on later generations is indeed profound, and Buddhism has entered China since the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Buddha didn't even need a physical body, and naturally didn't need many ornaments. The crown ornament is the image of a bodhisattva, who is handsome and richly dressed, and is the second-class fruit position after the Buddha. The bodhisattva incarnates as a visible image to the naked eye of the world, of course, more humane than the Buddha statue, showing a hint of gentleness in solemnity. After the Tang Dynasty, the bodhisattva was even more feminine. Compared with the Jade Spirit in the Neolithic Period, the Jade Ceremony in the Shang Zhou Dynasty. The ornate costumes of the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty symbolized royal prestige and represented a noble status. Through the costumes of the bodhisattva statues, you can see the transformation of the royal aristocratic costumes of various periods, the bodhisattva costumes are intricate and exquisite, graceful and luxurious, and the dynasties and dynasties have continuously added the aesthetic preferences of the time, and the statues of bodhisattvas in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties are beyond exception.
Northern Qi painted portrait of a golden bodhisattva in the collection of the Qingzhou Museum
There are many film and television dramas about the Qing Dynasty, and everyone is familiar with Chaozhu. In the Imperial Qing Wenjian, there is a Chinese translation of "counting beads" for chaozhu, and the chaozhu symbolizes the status of the high. The Qing "Huidian" stipulates that from the emperor's concubines to the wenwu five or more must wear the imperial beads, ordinary people and low-grade officials are not allowed to wear them at will. This is also a symbol of royal status, representing a noble status.
Although there were many imperial beads in the Qing Dynasty, they benefited from relatively recent age, and the objects of the court were often auctioned at amazing prices because of the value of knowledge. A string of Qing Imperial Oriental Pearls was auctioned for 67.86 million yuan at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2010; the Qing Imperial Jade Dynasty Bead Necklace was auctioned for 23 million yuan in 2011 at CITIC in Macau In 2011, the Price of the Eastern Pearl Chaozhu chaozhu in Beijing Poly was auctioned for 13.225 million; and the most famous is that Cixi gave it to the Guangxu Emperor, and the Guangxu Emperor gave the imperial green jade chaozhu to Zhenfei, which has a total of 108 beads, a total weight of 342.3 grams, each bead is almost the same size, the maximum diameter is about 1.2 cm, which can be said to be the best of the jade beads. At the 2014 Christie's auction in Hong Kong, it sold for "180 million yuan", which is a real "famous string sky-high price".
Qing Dynasty Dynasty Pearls Collection of Liaoning Museum
Qing Dynasty hand-strung necklaces collected by liaoning museum
Evening Sun Amber Lapis Lazuli Eighteen Sons Hand String Hong Kong Christie's
Liangzhu jade bead turquoise charm Shanghai Museum collection
Warring States jade beads are decorated in the collection of The Liangzhu Museum in Hangzhou
Liangzhu Jade Pipe Pearl Collection of The Friar Art Museum
Liangzhu fish-shaped turquoise jade beads are decorated in the collection of Jai Aesthetics
Liangzhu agate turquoise bracelet for the Collection of Jai Aesthetics
Liangzhu agate jade bead bracelet for the collection of Jai aesthetics
Liangzhu jade bead hand string for the collection of Jai aesthetics
Liangzhu Cultural Period: Jade beads, agate tube beads, jade spinning wheels, and Qun-shaped Lezi Collection of Jai Aesthetics
For thousands of years, all kinds of jade beads have never left people's lives, whether it is decoration or play, the collection is a favorite. Hold a string of ancient jade beads and feel the beauty of time. Busy with the hustle and bustle of the world, you need to have something, like a relative, a friend, and you can get its comfort after a tired life. The string of things is small, life is fast and big, in addition to the chai rice oil and salt in front of you, there are also near water and distant mountains in the past and present.
Asai Aesthetics Museum Chai Jin