Standing at the height of jade, feeling the thick Henan

Jade, a collection of heavenly and earthly auras, warm and beautiful stones, has placed the Chinese people's aesthetic philosophy and moral standards. It has been the object of love and admiration since ancient times. Jade culture is an important part of Chinese traditional culture.

On the morning of February 27th, three jade culture theme lectures were staged at the Daheyu Cultural Communication Center on the 7th floor of Dahe International Hotel. Three well-known experts in the industry interpret the jade culture from ancient times to the present, full of “dry goods”, come and see!

Jade Culture Communication Center: Full of jade culture

On the morning of February 27th, the reporter came to the Daheyu Cultural Communication Center. I saw that it was divided into a functional area such as the Jade Culture Exhibition Hall and the Jade Culture Lecture Hall. The overall style is antique, and the air is filled with a touch of smoke and fragrance, which is very elegant.

Inside the glass showcase of the Jade Culture Exhibition Hall, jade carvings of jade, white jade, jasper, Dushan jade, Nanhong, Huanglong jade, etc., and various jade stones are displayed. On a wooden table, a UV-ray mirror is placed. , microscopes, polarizers and other identification equipment and electronic engraving machines and other jade equipment; on the wall of the lecture hall, there are various jade species, jade carving genre graphic introductions... can be described as "360 degrees without dead ends" to fully interpret this jade culture information. The readers who came to attend the lectures were interested in visiting in threes and threes.

Maybe you want to know jade culture, but you are trapped in the messy information on the Internet, lacking a systematic combing; maybe you like to collect jade, but you are confused in the market, I am afraid to accidentally "eye"; maybe you like it Wearing modern jewellery and jade, I am interested in Wang Hao’s diamonds and mother’s pearls... All these questions and curiosities can be answered at the Daheyu Cultural Communication Center.

At 9:30, the three experts invited to explain their interpretation of jade culture from different angles and different historical stages, full of “dry goods”. Let us hear what they have said?

Zhang Baolong: The Origin and Development of Zhongyuan Jade Culture

Dahe Jianbao jade and miscellaneous identification expert Zhang Baolong brought you the theme lecture on "The Origin and Development of Zhongyuan Jade Culture". In his view, the Central Plains jade culture is the essence of Chinese jade culture.

The Central Plains jade culture originated from the end of the primitive society (from 6,000 to 4,200 years ago). It was found in 18 cultural relics of the Central Plains, and it was found in 13 districts, cities and counties in the province. The Dushan jade specimen on the surface is enough to prove that the Central Plains jade culture is a collection of Chinese jade culture.

Middle zone. The emergence of jade articles in the Central Plains region kicked off the origin of the Central Plains jade culture.

The Zhongyuan jade culture developed in the Xia and Shang dynasties. In the Xia Dynasty, with the gradual emergence of bronze tools, the jade technology in the Central Plains area has gradually improved, but it has not yet formed a certain scale and remarkable Saitama style. It belongs to a transition from Liangzhu Culture, Longshan Culture and Hongshan Culture Jade to Yinshang Jade. form.

The extensive use of various advanced bronze tools in the Shang Dynasty has made the process of cutting, grinding and drilling in jade making relatively easy, and the level of jade has been greatly improved. The jade in the late Shang Dynasty was represented by the Yinyang Women's Tomb in Anyang, and 755 jade articles were unearthed. The number of the jade articles is large, the variety is varied, and the craftsmanship is amazing. The most unearthed jade articles unearthed in the Yin Ruins have three points: one is the appearance of a large number of round sculptures, the other is the appearance of the pretty jade, and the third is the innovative double-hooking line.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, a special pipe jade institution, Yufu and Dianrui, was set up to make the jade control system go on the road of standardization. As far as we know, there are seventy or eighty places in the West Zhou jade, and more than 3,000 pieces of jade are unearthed, and nearly 10,000 pieces of other miscellaneous items. In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the jade was similar to that of Shang Dynasty. After the middle period, it gradually formed its own style of jade, and created the jade technique of “a thick line with a thin line and a thin line”, and appeared in the jade group.

After nearly 1,500 years of development in Xia, Shang and Xi Zhou, the number of jade articles in the Central Plains has increased greatly, the content is rich, and the variety of jade and jade is increasingly complete. The functions of serving religious and social hierarchies are gradually becoming complete, and the humanities color is more intense. Jade is not equal to jade culture. Only when jade is given the human and social attributes, it has the moral and ritual connotation, so that it can be of the nature of jade culture after being personalized. Therefore, the Zhongyuan jade culture in the full sense was not formed until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Shi Junzheng: Experience of ancient jade identification of "actual war faction"

Shi Junzheng, editor-in-chief of the Hidden Dragon Jade Edition and a member of the ancient jade appraisal of Henan Judicial Art Appraisal Center, as a "real combat faction" who has been exploring the market for a long time, brought "the identification and identification method of ancient jade" to everyone. Unreservedly shared his years of accumulated experience, very practical.

Shi Junzheng's identification methods mainly start from punching, micro-marking, ochre, phosgene and patina. From the Neolithic period to the Spring and Autumn Period, the hole of the jade is mainly the horn hole, also called the horseshoe hole, and the double-hole "bovine nostril" and a small number of straight holes. At that time, the drilling method was to pour the “solution jade sand” while slowly drilling the hole with a tubular tool. The hole showed a “flare” with a large mouth and a smaller diameter, and left a spiral in the hole. The pattern is significantly different from the intensive mechanical traces exhibited by modern high-speed punching tools. The difference can be seen from the magnified HD picture.

In terms of micro-marks, the ancient jade is slowly polished by hand, and the traces from the jade can be seen from the rough scratches to the fine grinding process; the imitations are all engraved with high-speed tools, and finally polished with a cloth turbine. Dozens of jade wares are old, dyed, and soiled. They can be seen in rough, but the grooves are smooth and smooth without any burrs, and there is no trace of slow grinding and polishing of ancient jade.

Twilight is also an important basis for identification. The ancient jade is affected by factors such as soil pH, geothermal heat, minerals in water and soil, etc., which will produce different ochre; the density of jade is low or the cracked part is firstly smashed and slowly spread to the surroundings, while the jade is closely affected. Smaller or not at all. Unearthed ancient jade is natural, from thick to light, deep into the fetal bone, and the color is calm and introverted; while the imitation is mostly by fire, acid etching, dyeing, potassium permanganate soaking, etc. Rigid, dirty, chaotic, flower, floating on the surface.

After the ancient jade is unearthed, it forms an overall phosgene. The reflective points are concentrated, and the light will not scatter everywhere. It looks warm and soft and not glaring, unlike the thief of modern jade. The surface of the ancient jade will also form a transparent envelope, which is often referred to as "pasting", with a pearl-like luster, the overall uniformity, and the new imitation will not have this feeling.

Shi Junzheng also brought some physical specimens to let everyone compare and feel the difference between ancient jade and new imitation. On the scene, a woman who had never been exposed to ancient jade used the method she had just learned after the lecture to accurately distinguish 3 pieces of ancient jade and 7 pieces of imitation from the 10 jade articles brought by Shi Junzheng. "Immediately."

Zhao Haiping: Exploration of Chinese Modern Jewelry Culture

Compared with the ancient jade that is full of traces of time, there are also a lot of “fans” in exquisite and beautiful modern jewelry. How do modern jewellery define and form a unique culture? Zhao Haiping, deputy dean of the Geological and Environmental Exploration Institute of the State Bureau of Geology and Minerals of Henan Province and the national registered jewellery jade quality inspector, brought the "Exploration of Modern Chinese Jewelry Culture" to explain their understanding of modern jewelry culture.

The source of modern Chinese jewelry culture is jade culture. Confucius said that "the gentleman is better than the virtue and the jade", he believes that jade has ten kinds of virtues such as benevolence, wisdom, righteousness, courtesy, music, loyalty, faith, heaven, earth, morality, and Tao; the jade in ancient times has "the jade must have pictures." The characteristics of the map, the intention must be, the meaning of auspiciousness, and the auspicious meaning of "Fu Lu Shou Xi Cai".

In Zhao Haiping's view, the ancients left their culture, and we are creating the culture of this era. With the development of the society, the cultural exchange between China and the West promotes the renewal of ideas, and the Western diamond culture has become an important part of the modern Chinese jewellery culture; the personalized colored gems, wenwan and jewellery combine to create a beautiful combination of beads, wenwan and jewellery. "National Mother Pearl" has also become a hot spot in the market; the "cultural marketing" of major jewellery brands has flourished...

Zhao Haiping believes that with the progress of society and material satisfaction, people's demand for spiritual culture will become larger and larger. As a spiritual force, culture can transform into material power in the process of people's understanding of the world and transforming the world, and has a profound impact on social development and personal growth. People's understanding of jewelry will gradually shift from investment value and decorative value to spiritual and cultural value. Jewelry culture belonging to this era is taking shape.

Spread jade culture: we have been walking on the road

Jade, this kind of aura of earth and earth, warm and beautiful stone, has been the object of people's love and admiration since ancient times. "The gentleman is better than the jade", the beautiful jade is a beautiful symbol, it embodies the Chinese aesthetic philosophy and Moral standards, jade culture, without a doubt, are an important part of Chinese traditional culture.

Therefore, it is our responsibility to spread jade culture.

It is understood that as a start-up event in 2016, this lecture is one of the many activities of the Daheyu Cultural Communication Center. In the future, the Daheyu Cultural Communication Center will continue to hold more jade cultural events, including lectures, treasures, and exhibitions. Spread jade knowledge, popularize jade culture, expand jade industry, and let Zhongyuan Meiyu enter more people's lives.

Daheyu Culture Communication Center is one of the Dahe series cultural brands that Henan Daily Newspaper Group focuses on. It aims to build a domestic first-class jade culture industry cluster display platform based on the newspaper industry's rich experience in cultural industry project operation and media advantages. Henan jade culture, expand the relevant industrial chain.

At the beginning and after the establishment of the Daheyu Cultural Communication Center, it has done a lot of work for the dissemination and development of the Zhongyuan jade culture with the platform of the Dahe newspaper Dahe collection. From 2012 to 2013, Dahe Daily Dahe Collection Weekly planned a series of reports on the theme of “Ancient Jadeware in the Central Plains”, systematically combing the development of the Central Plains jade culture, and looking for the rich elements of Henan.

In addition, since 2012, the Zhengzhou International Jade Culture Expo has been held for six consecutive years, and the National Arts and Crafts Association has jointly held two “Dahe Cup” national art and craft master jade carving quality awards, in conjunction with the Henan Arts and Crafts Industry Association. He has hosted several summit forums such as the Symposium on the Development of Miyu Industry and the Symposium on the Development of Zhenping Jade Carving Industry. In the past few years, a large number of intensive cultural communication work has promoted the culture of Zhongyuan jade and made unremitting efforts and contributions to the development of Henan jade industry.