Five thousand years of jade and its beauty you don't know

The jade Ruyi is icy green and has a delicate texture. It is hand-carved on both sides and is extremely beautiful with an 18K rose gold and diamond buckle. It symbolizes good fortune, longevity, peace and luck.

The reflection of gemstone and jade culture in literature of different times

Pre-Qin Period The Pre-Qin period was a period of accumulation and gestation of China's gemstone culture. Many allusions and legends about jade and gemstones originated in this period. People are gradually gaining a deeper understanding of the role of precious stones and jade in beautifying our lives. This is reflected in literary works, where a major tradition of describing the culture of precious stones and jadeite emerges, that is, positively describing the decorative and practical value of precious stones and jadeite in daily life. For example, Qu Yuan wrote in "Nine Songs": "I tie up two wheels with haze and harness four horses, and I use jade drumsticks to beat drums." "Jade drumsticks" refers to drumsticks inlaid with jade. Another example is in "Li Sao" "I break off branches of jade to make my decorations, and pick the finest jade to make them. I drive a flying dragon for me, and mix jade and ivory to make my chariot... I raise the clouds and rainbows, and sing the songs of jade phoenixes." "Jade" refers to the fine pieces of jade, and "mix jade and ivory to make my chariot" means decorating the chariot with beautiful jade and ivory.

Although these scenes are written in a grand manner, the overall intention is very simple. It is just to use the exquisiteness of precious stones and jade to describe a kind of atmosphere and express the poet's romantic feelings. It includes the ancient people's respect for precious stones and jadeite, as well as the poet's yearning and pursuit for a better life. At the same time, precious stones such as jadeite are often used as luxurious ornaments and appear in literary works in an ideal world that is higher than real life. This also indirectly reflects that the precious stone culture of jadeite had not yet been fully popularized among the people at that time, let alone become a popular trend. This was caused by the limited production capacity and backward living standards in the pre-Qin period.

The jade peace locket is also known as "Nostalgia". This peace locket pendant is moist and emerald green, crystal clear and full, luxuriously inlaid, and has a grand shape. It can be called a "perfect thing".

Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties

This long historical period is the accumulation and development stage of jewelry culture. The descriptions of gemstones such as jade in literature, on the one hand, continue to highlight their aesthetic function and practical use as ornaments, and on the other hand, have begun to give them special decorative functions. On the former aspect, the styles and uses of gemstone jade craftsmanship shown in the literary works of this period are more diverse. For example, the varieties and styles of jade in the Pre-Qin period were relatively simple. In the Qin and Han dynasties, there were not only "Kunshan Jade", "Suihe Treasure", "Bright Moon Pearl" and "Night Light Wall" (see Li Si's "Remonstrance on Expelling Foreigners" often appearing). We can even read about "jade bowl" (i.e. jade cup) in "Records of the Grand Historian: The Biography of Xiang Yu"; read about "double-pearl tortoise hairpin" (i.e. tortoise hairpin with pendants at both ends) in the Han Dynasty folk song "Battle in the South of the City"; read about "ears wearing the bright moon" (earrings made of bright moon pearls) in "Ancient Poems Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing and Preface"; read about "jade and silk are always available" (jade refers to the scepter, which together with silk was used as a betrothal gift in ancient times) in Cao Zhi's "Beauty", etc. These all show that precious stones, jade and jadeite, have gone from the palace to the common people and are no longer rare objects in people's hearts in poetry and prose. Therefore, the development of gemstone and jadeite culture is closely linked to the improvement of people's living standards. More importantly, jade styles are more diverse and the craftsmanship requirements are more sophisticated, which indicates that its uses have penetrated into all aspects of daily life.

The jade is icy, transparent and moist, delicate and oily, the emerald green is juicy and evenly distributed, and the green color is particularly flavorful. The classic and elegant inlay style coupled with the full lines of the jade ruyi exude a noble temperament when worn.

On the one hand, certain jades and jadeites have appeared extensively in poetry as symbols of beautiful things or as some special mark. For example, in the song "Xizhou Qu" "hanging hands as bright as jade" uses jade to describe the whiteness of the hands. For example, in the ancient poem "Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing and Preface", there is a line "The mouth is like containing red ruby". "Red ruby" originally refers to red gemstone, and when used in the text it means the redness of the lips. The most typical example is the record in "Records of the Grand Historian: The Biography of Xiang Yu" where Fan Zeng counted the number of Xiang Wang and raised the jade he was wearing to show him his three talents, but Xiang Wang remained silent. The "玉" here is a kind of jade ornament. Because it is homophonic with "決", which means "decision", raising the jade means to signal Xiang Yu to make a decision quickly. This homophonic usage was originally inherited from Qu Yuan's articles in the pre-Qin period. It can be seen that the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period was a transitional stage in the development of gemstone culture. Literary works skillfully used the aesthetic imagery of gemstones and jadeite, and a new creative tradition was slowly forming and improving.

The jadeite laughing Buddha is of good quality, rich in water, and round and sticky. The shape is thick and full, the carving is delicate and vivid, and there is a kind smile between the eyebrows. The luxurious 18K gold and diamond inlay around the edge makes it even more perfect.

The influence of gemstone and jadeite culture on literature from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty began to gradually expand in the Tang Dynasty. It became quite common for scholars to write freely about the beauty of jade and jadeite. Due to the economic prosperity and political stability in the Tang Dynasty, material and cultural life was unprecedentedly rich, and the aesthetic mentality of gemstone and jadeite culture was constantly improved and enhanced. The literary techniques of reflecting gemstone and jadeite culture also became increasingly sophisticated. The main rhetorical effects are as follows (these characteristics have continued into Qing literature):

Metonymy such as "玉辇" refers to the emperor's carriage (Lu Zhaolin's "Chang'an Ancient Style"); "碧玉" refers to willow branches (He Zhizhang's "Ode to Willow"; "珠翠" refers to concubines and courtesans in full makeup (one of Wang Wei's "Two Fables"); "玉楼" refers to the boudoir (Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva Man"); "玉玺" refers to imperial power (Li Shangyin's "Sui Palace"), etc.

The jadeite Yang Green Peace and Happiness Pendant is made of soft and smooth jade, with a lustrous and bright luster, and is old and spicy in color. It is elegantly inlaid with 18K gold and diamonds, with a fashionable style and beautiful meaning.

Metaphors, for example, use "bright moon" (i.e. bright moon pearl) to metaphorize virtue and ability (Li Bai's "Reply to Wang Twelve on Drinking Alone on a Cold Night"); "Hearing the sound of water, like the humming of jade pendants" is to use the sound of jade pendants hitting each other to metaphor the sound of water (Liu Zongyuan's "Notes on the Small Rock Pool to the West of the Hill"). Another example is the "jumping pearls" in Su Shi's "Drunken Writing at Wanghu Tower on June 27th, Part One", which uses jumping pearls to metaphor raindrops. Not only is the shape realistic, but it also makes the poem dynamic, which can be said to be a stroke of genius. Another example is the "jade hairpin and snail bun" in Xin Qiji's "Water Dragon Song", which uses the sharpness of a mountain peak to metaphorically describe the effect of a headdress and hairstyle, which is novel, unique and transcendent. Another example is the metaphor of time passing by in Bai Pu's "Wutong Rain" where "玉漏遥" means "long and distant".

How long, and how appropriate and natural! In Liu Shizhong's prose song "Shang Gao Jiansi", he used "jade shoots" to describe the abundance of talented people, which is vivid and unconventional.

The icy jadeite floating flower beans are of icy quality with a translucent luster. The beans are full and smooth throughout, with an elegant and generous shape and an graceful and charming effect when worn.

The allusion to Li Shangyin's "Brocade Zither" "The moon shines on the sea, the pearls are weeping; the sun shines on Lantian, the jade is smoking" is taken from Gan Bao's "Soushen Ji" about planting jade. By saying that although the beautiful jade from Lantian is buried in the soil, it still smokes in the sun, it means that although he is not valued by the world, he will eventually be revealed to the world. For example, in Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan", he used the phrase "the blue-clothed woman holding a jade disk in her mouth" to imply that Emperor Hongguang was captured.

The jade chili pendant symbolizes a prosperous life. The design is unique, combining the creative concept of ancient jade carving with the trend of today's inlay craftsmanship, and the style is simple and elegant.

In summary, the connotation and extension of precious stones jadeite are constantly expanding with the development of classical literature. By the Tang and Song dynasties, the precious stones and jadeite in poetry and prose no longer simply referred to beautiful jade treasures, but had more connotations of "beauty", "goodness" and "perfection", embodying the aesthetic attitudes and ideal pursuits of different scholars and literati.

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