Jade jade is deeply imprinted with the impression of political economy and culture development

Jade is a kind of stone that people love. It is smooth, bright and beautiful. Together with other jade, it forms a unique culture in the long river of Chinese history; it is not only a beautiful stone, but also in the minds of people, it is often accompanied by mysterious beliefs. What's more, it also carries a strong political and economic color. In the spirit of jade, it deeply imprints the imprint of the development of political economy and culture in the development of human history.

Ideological and moral

The philosophy of the first virtue of Confucianism can be summed up in five words: benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, courage, and cleansing. Its symbolic meaning can be derived from the physical properties of jade:

"The beauty of jade stone; there are five virtues. Runs to warm, benevolent. From the outside, you can know the middle, righteousness. Its sound is comfortable, and the wisdom is not indomitable, brave. Ruilian is not pleasing, Jie also.

It can be seen that the understanding of jade in ancient Chinese moral thoughts and the understanding of jade beauty are completely integrated with the pursuit of human moral quality. The quality of jade is the morality and personality of people. Later, the lofty sacrifice spirit of "Ning is jade, not for the whole" is the jade's purity and nobleness, and is unwilling to be an ugly villain.

religious culture

The Chinese understanding of jade is first of all from the unpredictability of the ancient people to the magical power of nature, heaven and earth, to worship and sacrifice as a god, and then to become a religious concept. Whether it is Taoism, Confucianism, or Buddhism, they believe that the jade of the gods will give strength and wisdom to achieve a peaceful life. Therefore, there are unique cultural landscapes such as rituals, warding off evils, guarding houses, and protecting the body in jade articles. For example, the jade of the ritual is generally 璧琮 璋 璋 璜.

Ceremony: "The sky is like the sky, the sky is like the color of the sky, the shape of the circle is like the shape of the celestial body; the yellow rites, the yellow symbolizes the earth, the four sides of the earth; the green rituals of the East, the representative of the yu, the name of the jade The sun, the blue color represents the east, the wood is the spring, the spring is the ritual of the emperor's great ceremony; the red rites are in the south, the semi-guy is called the ç’‹, the red is the south, the summer is the fire; the white sorrow is the west, the world is called the white tiger west, the gold, Yu autumn, the white tiger star is the star of the West; Xuanzang ritual north, squatting for a long time, Yu winter, north, is water.

Therefore, the ancient rituals of the dead corpses are set in the four sides of the scorpion, 琮, 圭, 璋, 琥, 璜, six kinds of jade, to the spirit of the heavens and the earth.

The unique Buddha and god culture in the jade culture is also an important part of the jade religious culture.

Political economy

The political and economic thoughts of jade articles began from the class of society. Therefore, it has distinctive characteristics of status, decrees, wars, and treasures. Chinese people's understanding of the status of jade is particularly incisive. It uses different shapes to divide people's political status.

In "Zhou Li", he said: "Jade as a six-story, to wait for the state. Wang Zhizheng Gui, Gong Zhiheng, Hou Zhixin, Bo Zhiyu, Zi Zhigu, male, Pu Pu", " The emperor is both guilty and then enshrined."

The difference between the different official positions in the Qing Dynasty and the difference in the bead quality is the continuation and development of this idea.

The famous story of He Shi in Chinese history, as well as the dynasties of the dynasties, used jade as a treasure collection and play, and both are the best embodiment of this attribute.