Jade carving—Jade in Chinese character
Jade in the Chinese character
The jade and the Chinese culture are same beginning, on three generations had the jade character, the jade character in the inscription on animal bones and tortoise shells is a string which together some stones .At that time the strung together stone was the jade which we said today, we do not know , but it is certainly treasure stones , mild, gloss……
The ancients all thought generally the jade is the gentleman in the stones . "Shuowen" has carries “the jade, the beauty stone, some five morality , favor by warm, side of the kernel also”. Afterwards, the jade is then expanded to some virtuous action, happy words. "Ritual Records" has “the gentleman compared to morality like jade”, but also has the idiom “as pure as driven snow”. “the young boys and girls” describes the youth beautiful girl .
In the ancient times, the jade mining quantity was extremely low the entire divine land only has several places to produce the jade, jade quantity are extremely few, people who could have jade is naturally the nobility aristocrat, the status noble person, it is certain that emperor had the most jade. By imagination of the common people to the imperial palace, in imperial palace many things pulled the relations with the jade, the imperial palace was called “jade que”, the imperial palace stair was called “the jade porch”, the parapet was called “the jade fence”, the mirror was called “the jade warning”, the wine class was called “the jade back”, the horse-drawn vehicle was called “the jade nian”, with food and uses calling “sumptuous lifestyle”. In above display things, all really is not necessarily the jade product, they were also only the load bearing people’s honored imagination to the imperial palace .So, two directions about jade meaning in general: one figure of happiness, the other figure of honored .the different all is the Chinese most anticipates .The Chinese also believed the jade declare publicly happy, symbol peace.
The word "jade" containecl in name of place
During the long years, people used jade, jade meaning will also be extended to language, social life at all levels of. Now, Let us say The word "jade" containecl in name of place.
我还知道江西有一个玉亭县.
Apr. 16, 2009
我也知道一些呢，如：河北的玉田县、青海的玉树县、四川的白玉县、新疆的墨玉县。
Apr. 16, 2009
我知道全国各地也有很多处以玉起名的名胜古迹，如：云南丽江的玉龙山、上海的玉佛寺、玉显山、泰山主峰玉皇顶和煤窑村的玉带河等。
Apr. 16, 2009