Why is jade both rigid and elastic?

Agile. China's craft thought advocates the unity of mind and matter, requires "handy", "quality is human, and the image is yin and yang", which fully embodies the life spirit of the subject in his creation. China's traditional craft creation has always maintained the S-shaped structure paradigm in modeling and decoration. This structural paradigm is full of the rhythm of life and endless sense of movement, which makes China's craft works actively change in strict norms, sparse and ethereal.

In the eyes of the ancients, jade melts the aura of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and has beautiful natural attributes of moist, clean, crystal clear, bare and dense. In the long process of human life practice, jade and "human nature" are integrated into one, becoming the object of "virtue over jade" of gentlemen and becoming the symbol of power, status and wealth.

The spirit of jade is the precious wealth of traditional thought. For thousands of years, it has exerted a subtle influence on people's ideas and behaviors, injected positive vitality into the formation and stability of traditional excellent national psychology and national character, and cultivated China people's noble sentiments. The image temperament of elegance, implication, gentleness and comity in the East is, to a certain extent, the reappearance of the virtues of jade materials, which has a unique charm.

In short, the long history, profound connotation and influence on all aspects of society have finally established the lofty position of jade in the eyes of the Chinese nation, won the treasure and love from generation to generation, and become one of the important symbols of ancient China culture, shining with eternal glory.