Han Dynasty White Jade Jade Bi with Milk Nail Decoration

Jade jades are one of the most common and long-lived types of ancient Chinese jade. It has existed throughout almost the entire history of ancient jade production, over a long period of nearly 7,000 years. As early as 6,000 years ago in the Liangzhu culture, there were a large number of beautifully crafted jade jade jade, which were then developed in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the two weeks, and reached its peak in the two Han dynasties. The Western Han period is directly in the late Warring States period on the basis of the development of the evolution of jade. The Han Dynasty jade jade bik is mainly used for ceremonial, burial, some jade bik can also be used to decorate the wall or as inlays decorated copper pillow and hooks; some smaller jade bik used as part of the group of jade pendant for the pendant system, also known as the Department of the bik.

This jade jade bik has a distinctive style of the Han Dynasty, and there are two main definitions of the bik in ancient documents: one of them is recorded in "Erya - Interpretation of Instruments," which reads, "Flesh is twice as good as the bik; good times as good as flesh is called a jade ring; good as flesh is a good as a ring, so-called ring." Another from the "Shuowen Jiezi - Jade", the book will be interpreted as "Ruiyu Huan", paragraph note: "the side of the hole is also small"; interpretation of the magon for the "big hole Bik", paragraph note: "the hole is larger than the edge is also"; the interpretation of the ring is "B璧肉好若一谓之环". According to the "Shuowen" explanation, Bik is a round flat shape and the center has a hole in the Ruiyu, Won, ring is a kind of Bik.

This jade bik is a kind of flat and round jade with a hole in the center, one of the "Six Rays" of ceremonial vessels, and is the most central kind of jade in the jade culture of ancient China, whose history stretches over 5,000 years, and which symbolizes good will and noble qualities in the traditional Chinese cultural concepts.

As a very important jade, the jade bik developed to its heyday from the Warring States period to the two Han dynasties. During this period, the pattern of jade jade biscuits varied in form, large and small, and the variety of decorations was extremely rich, the range of use increased greatly, and the number of jade biscuits was the highest of all times.

This wall, which is a small jade jade biscuit, is well crafted, with an outline on both the inner and outer edges, and has a diameter of about 5.6 centimeters, weighing 22.6 grams. The nipple pattern on the wall, with the nipples arranged in a radial pattern from inside to outside and from small to large, is very rare, and the carving and polishing are even more sophisticated. The jade is of a light greenish color, and should be of Hetian white jade. The jade is moist and the pulp is thick and moist. The color of the seepage is like vermilion sand, and it is as dense as swimming silk (as seen under the mirror), and there are countless spots of black seepage as well. There is no doubt that this is a piece of ancient jade jade, after more than a thousand years, old as this, the door is open.

As the nipple pattern on the jade jade jade is relatively late, I think it should be the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In any case, with its shape and jade color and so on to see, high antique jade jade jade without doubt. In any case, the shape and the color of the jade are of such a high quality that there is no need to doubt it, and it is also a rare item in terms of its large size and exquisite production, which makes it a valuable collector's item of Han jade.

The three most common geometric motifs on the Han jade jade bi are the bushel motif, the milky nail motif, and the relief valley motif. All three are embossed, neatly arranged, horizontal rows, vertical columns, and similar production methods, are based on three groups of wide and deep parallel lines at an angle of 60 degrees to split the ground to reduce the formation of similar to the arrangement of the beehive of the hexagonal raised plane. Among them, the bushel pattern is more flat and short, and the layout is dense, the division line is narrower and finer; nipple pattern is raised significantly, sparse intervals, a number of works will also be the hexagonal unit polished hemispherical; relief valley pattern, and the nipple pattern particles and then re-sharpened into the budding grain, and finally along the outline of the relief unit in accordance with the shape of the engraving of a valley pattern.

In ancient times, bik is an important jade, the use of the long years, the variety of other jade can not be compared. Bik has the following kinds of uses: one for ceremonial objects, two for wearing jade, three for ceremonial gifts, and four for burial jade. The ornamentation of jade biscuits varied with the different eras. In the Shang Dynasty, jade jade was often decorated with string motifs. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods to the Han Dynasty, the jade jade biscuits were decorated with cloud, valley and bushel motifs, occasionally with chi dragons. After the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, there appeared concave carved chi dragon pattern, milky ding pattern, animal face pattern, bird and flower pattern decoration of jade jade jade.

The jade jade bibs that should be emphasized are the vegetal bibs, valley bibs, and bushy bibs. Vegetable Bik first appeared in the Neolithic era, the most notable three out of the land. One is the Liangzhu culture site; the second is the early culture site in Guanghan area; the third is the Qijia culture site. The Shang Dynasty also had Su Bi, which was mainly used for ceremonial objects at that time. The use of valley bibs and bushel bibs continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Ming and Qing dynasties saw the emergence of one side decorated with valley or bushel patterns, cloud and thunder patterns, and mat patterns, and the other side decorated with flowers, birds, fish, insects, dragons, phoenixes, bagua, auspicious objects and other motifs. The Zhou Ritual has the record of "the son executing the Gu Bi" and "the man executing the Pu Bi". Gu Bi engraved with rows of small dense milk ding, milk ding carved into a swirl like the teeth of the valley, taking its valley can be the meaning of health. The Pu Bi refers to the Bi with a very shallow hexagonal lattice pattern, taking the Pu can weave mats can be the meaning of peace. These two kinds of jade jade is mostly the Warring States and Han Dynasty, generally for a few centimeters to a dozen centimeters, more than twenty centimeters is rare, from the survival or unearthed in kind, the treasure light overflowing, very good workmanship. During the Warring States period, this kind of jade jade has been regarded as a treasure, as a jade or collateral, reward, inlay, ceremonial goods and gifts. Dragon pattern, bird pattern, phoenix and bird pattern, Pu Bi seen in the Han Dynasty, the surface of the jade disk with concentric rope pattern is divided into two zones, as many as three zones. The outer area was decorated with dragons or phoenixes and birds, the inner area was decorated with bushes, and the three areas were decorated with animal faces. This Han Dynasty bik is usually made of water jade, divided into thick and thin two kinds, the diameter is generally larger, the big ones have more than 40 centimeters, but thick is not rare.

This piece of Han Dynasty style jade bik on display is a piece of well-preserved, negligible character flaws of the best, with extremely high collection value and investment value, is the best collection of investment.