2017年6月29日 · Jade (nephrite) was regarded as the most precious stone in ancient China, and it symbolised purity and moral integrity. Prized for its durability and magical qualities, the stone was laboriously carved and polished into all manner of objects from jewellery to desk ornaments.

Poetically described two thousand years ago in China as the “fairest of stones,” jade actually refers to two different minerals, nephrite and jadeite. All of the true jades found at ancient Chinese sites are made of fine-grained nephrite. In its purest state nephrite lacks color; impurities create the variations of yellow, green, brown, and black.

an emblem are extremely rare. Most of the inscribed Chinese Neolithic jades were produced by the Liangzhu culture which flourished near Lake Tai and in the lower reaches of the Yangzi River valley, in parts of present day southern Jiangsu an. northern Zhejiang provinces. Jade cong and bi discs were essential for r.

During the first two millennia of Chinese culture, jade was thought to be of super­natural origin, an emanation of streams and mountains, something created by the forces of nature, born within the earth and endowed with transcendental qualities.

In ancient China, jade serves as a medium for dialogue with ancestors, deities, and the Heaven, an amulet worn by people both alive and dead for protection against evils, a token indicating the bearer's wealth, power, and identity, and even an elixir of life.

Today we know these jades represent the earliest epochs of Chinese civilization, the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Many came from the prehistoric burials of the Liangzhu culture (circa 3300–2250 BCE). These Stone Age people flourished in a large, fertile region between the modern cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing.

In 2010, the National Cultural Heritage Administration allotted 80,000 ancient Chinese jade artifacts to the collections of the National Museum of China. This exhibition selects jade objects dating from ancient times to the Qing Dynasty and is bolstered by a number of specimens that are rarely displayed to the public.

Chinese jade, any of the carved-jade objects produced in China from the Neolithic Period (c. 3000–2000 bce) onward. The Chinese have historically regarded carved-jade objects as intrinsically valuable, and they metaphorically equated jade with purity and indestructibility.

In ancient China, jade serves as a medium for dialogue with ancestors, deities, and the Heaven, an amulet worn by people both alive and dead for protection against evils, a token indicating the bearer's wealth, power, and identity, and even an elixir of life.

2015年3月2日 · In ancient times, jade was usually placed with dead emperors or nobles in tombs or enshrined in rituals. For centuries, this extremely tough translucent stone has been associated with royalty and regarded as a token of divinity. Why do the Chinese hold jade in such esteem?