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Late Shang dynasty to Western Zhou White jade bird ornament
Size 5.6 cm
Transaction Amount: RMB441,000 (HKD)
The Liangzhu people live in the Jiangnan region of China and may be the descendants of the "Yu people", and the fact that the gods and men wearing feather crowns in their tribal emblems are a proof. In ancient myths and legends, the East Sea is the land of birds, there is a god of "human-faced bird bodies", and the Liangzhu people, who are closely related to this myth and legend, are the people who worship birds.
In the bones and jade of the Liangzhu culture, the image of the bird appears frequently, including bird-shaped three-dimensional circular carvings and bird patterns carved on the utensils. The bird worship of the Liangzhu people is mainly manifested in two aspects: on the one hand, they believe that the bird is a "spaceship" carrying the sun every day; On the other hand, they believe that birds are messengers between heaven and earth, the medium through which humans communicate with the gods.
In the two Liangzhu cultural sites in Yuhang Anti-Mountain and Yaoshan Mountain in Zhejiang Province, a total of five round carved jade birds have been excavated, these jade birds are flatteners, no sense of ferocity, and there are bull nose tunnels drilled in the abdomen of the birds. Similar artifacts have been unearthed at other sites, one with a pointed beak and a short tail, in the form of wings spreading and flying, and a drum-shaped raised circular pattern carved in the middle of the bird's back. There is no doubt that this circular pattern is the symbol of the sun. The appearance of this jade bird shows that the Liangzhu people believe that the operation of the sun is achieved by the flight of birds.
This understanding of birds by ancient ancestors is also in written records, and the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Great Wilderness Of the East Classic says: "There are fumu on the Tang Valley, and one day is the solstice, and the other day is out, all of which are contained in the birds." This means that there is a valley in the wilderness called Tang valley, and there is a tree called Fumu in the Tang Valley, and one sun has just returned, and the other sun immediately goes out, all driven by three-legged birds. What is a three-legged bird? The birds we see now are only two-legged, and the ancients believed that there was another three-legged god bird whose duty was to carry the sun on its back.
The bird pattern of the artifacts excavated from the Liangzhu culture generally appears as auxiliary ornaments, which are often combined with the face patterns of gods, men and beasts, and generally do not occupy the main parts of the utensils. But one piece of bird-patterned jade bi on display at the Shanghai Museum and another piece of bird-patterned jade bi on display at the Liangzhu Museum appear to be exceptions. The ornamentation of the two pieces is almost identical, with birds, poles and steps from top to bottom. Experts believe that the bird can be seen as the embodiment of the sun, the middle pole can be seen as the Fuso tree mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the rectangular body with steps below should be the altar of the heavens, that is, the altar of worshiping the sun.
Because the Liangzhu cultural artifacts engraved with bird patterns are mostly sacrificial vessels and funerary objects, the bird pattern also has another meaning, that is, the bird can convey human wishes to the gods, and can also bring the soul of the person after death to the paradise world. It is not difficult to imagine that the ancient ancestors looked up at the sky and saw the birds flying freely in addition to their daily lives and labor, and it was easy to think that they could communicate with the gods in the sky with the help of birds, and at the same time, they also hoped to bring themselves to heaven with the help of birds after death. Thus the bird is imagined as a tool for the gods to control, which can also be confirmed by the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which contains many records of gods flying on birds.
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This year, collectors and enthusiasts in the antique circle go out, and they are embarrassed to go out without wearing seventy or eighty pieces of jade and bead strings! One is the treasure to ward off evil spirits, one is convenient to play with the disk at any time to enjoy the enjoyment, and then one is also convenient and good at any time to communicate! Therefore, what can be worn with you from the cultural period, the Shang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties is the owner's beloved thing! If it is the things worn by the ancients at that time, such as the jade of the Western Zhou Dynasty, or the jade worn by the royal families of various dynasties, they are precious treasures that cannot be sought, and the older they are, the more precious they are!
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