Traditional Handicraft Hongshan Culture

Hongshan Culture jade is a jade found in the Neolithic Hongshan Culture site in China, which was first found in Niuheliang site in Lingyuan County, Liaoning Province. Hongshan culture jades are unique in shape, long in age and rare in quantity. For these three reasons, jade collectors are particularly fond of it.

First, jade has a strong sense of plastic arts and is beautiful and unique. The most representative jades in Hongshan Culture are Jade Dragon, Jade Statue and Jade Toothed Animal Face. Jade dragon is natural as a whole, and its curvature is round and natural, so there is? China's eLong? . This kind? c？ The appearance of the dragon shape shocked the world. After all, in the Neolithic Age, it was extremely difficult to polish jade articles like this. The Palace Museum has a collection of jade figures unearthed from the Hongshan Culture site, which are carved from a whole piece of jade and have a complete shape, showing the world the faces and clothes of people in the new era.

Jade tooth animal face decoration is the strangest and most unique of the three. Jade is yellow all over, with an animal face on the front and teeth on the lower part, just like a modern wooden comb with decoration. These jades are not uniform in shape and have their own characteristics, so we have to admire the wise imagination of the ancients.

Second, Hongshan culture jade has a long history and rich historical and cultural heritage. Jade collectors generally like modeling design, but because of the high price of jade and the difficulty of polishing, the earlier the polishing technology is, the worse it is, and there are few unique shapes, mostly round jade rough embryos. Most of the existing exquisite jade articles are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the collection value of jade articles is not very high. Hongshan culture jade is an ancient collection with artistic style. Collectors are extremely lucky to have Hongshan Culture jade.

In the Neolithic Age, it was very difficult to mine jade articles, because most of them were rough tools made of stone. Exquisite jade, with its warm appearance, became the spiritual sustenance of the ancients for a period of time in the era of material shortage. Over the years, it can be seen that Hongshan culture jade must have paid great patience in the polishing process, and the polished jade shape must contain precious significance, which also shows that the owner of the jade has certain prestige. Neolithic sites have not been well developed. Scholars who study history and culture will probably use the jade symbol of 1000 years ago to discuss metaphor, that is, the information that the ancients brought to future generations through images rather than words, which provided materials for later study of more distant historical and cultural features.

Third, things are rare, and the number of jade articles in Hongshan culture is scarce, which is of high collection value. There are a lot of jades in Hongshan Culture in the market, but few in museums. Because there are not many jades mined from the ruins, rare things are precious, so collectors only look at the rare collection value. If there is no evaluation standard of similar experts, it will definitely suffer a big loss in Hongshan culture jade collection, and fakes are sometimes incredible. There are two kinds of collectors, one is purely interested in jade and wants to buy it home for collection, and the other is to make big money through auction after the appreciation of jade. In the interest disputes, many jade shops have deep water, that is, there are many fakes of Hongshan jade.