A Very Rare Chinese Culture Jade Pendant Beast For Sale
Material: LiangZhu
Dimension: Length: 2.72''; width: 1.46''; thickness: 0.39"
Colour: Old
Condition: Old
Description: The Chinese civilization span from the Three Kings and Five Emperors to the present,is a miracle of human civilization.The culture of jade is closely kinked with the development of Chinese civilization.There has been a thinking system arising from the recognition on the quality of jade,the pursuit of quality faed ornaments,Confucius thought gentlemen were judged according to his jade.Not only jade could be more valuable than gold,the design of jade wares are varied according to his jade.Not only jade could be more valuable than gold,the design of fade wares are varied and embodying the richness of Chinese culture.
The oldest jade ware found up-tp-date dated back to 8000 years ago,it is a jade dagger excavated on the relic of County Hu in Shanxi Province,the largest piece is«Picture of King Yu Combating the Flood»,took 10 years for the artists of Yangzhou in Qing Dynasty to complete,the first catalog on jade ware is «Picture of Ancient Jade Ware»in Yuan Dynasty,written in 1341,the first book specializing in jade ware is«Study and Confirmation of the Pictures of Ancient Jade Ware»by a Qing scholar Wuyiwei in 1889.
Jade wares are important branch of Chinese treasured,many have witnessed great historical events,owned by important historical figures,and become important material stuff for the study of history.The culture of jade is Distinctively Chinese,showing its splendor among world civilizations
Hongshan culture was a tribe group located within the western Liaohe river valley to D alinghe river valley and the northern bank of the Bohai bay t the south of Yanshan Mountain around 3 500BC. The Niuheliang site belongs to the late period of Hongshan culture.Located at the three loess mountain ridges which stretches about 10 km at the valley of Nuluerhu Mountain, where Jianping county and Lingyuan county of Chaoyang city meet (41°20′N and 119°30′E). The goddess temple.the sacrificial altar and the stone--mound groups are distributed regularly at the rolling hill about 10000m acrossfrom east to west and about 5 000m from north to south.These form a large--scaled pre-historical sacrificial sites complex that stands alone beyond the residential area. Niuheliang is located in the centre of a network leading to all the regions of the Hongshan culture.It is imbued with the characters of a sacred place and political center(fig.1,2,3).This shows us that the Hongshan culture was a complexsociety that had reached the "ancient state"stage.