How much do you know about the classification of ancient jade articles?

Chinese ancient jade articles can be roughly divided into eight types: ritual music, ceremonial, funeral, decorative, tools, daily necessities, furnishings, and miscellaneous. Among them, except for the variety of jade rituals that have changed little over the past few thousand years, other categories have changed from time to time.

Ritual music

It is some utensils used in ceremonial activities such as sacrificing, admiring, hiring, and military. This type of jade has been given a special meaning, the so-called rites.璧, 琮, 圭, 璋, 璜, 琥, etc., are the main six Musical instrument. In addition, 瑗, ring, 珑, etc. have also performed rituals in different periods.

Ceremonial

This kind of jade is also called jade weapon, mainly including jade, jade knife, jade, jade axe and so on. This type of jade is mainly found in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and is most prominent in the pre-commercial period. After the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, except for the antique jade works, these kinds of utensils are rarely seen.

Funeral

This type of jade is referred to as the burial jade, which refers to the burial jade that was made to preserve the body. Because of the influence of ghosts and gods and religious thoughts, people in ancient times believed that after death, the soul would go to another world. In order for the soul to last forever, some jade articles were used to protect the bodies of the deceased. Since the Warring States Period, China has gradually formed a system of funeral jade. The buried jade used in history mainly includes eye-catching (including masks, eye curtains and eyebrows), jade grips, jade plugs, and jade clothes.

Accessories

Refers to the jade worn by the person, the content is very complicated. There are mainly headwear, earrings, ornaments, jewelry and body ornaments. The jade ornaments are produced in the primitive society. Many of the smaller plate-shaped bodies and jade articles with perforated bodies are considered to be decorative jade, such as jade, jade, jade, jade, jade ring and various jade, jade pendant and so on.

Production tools

This type of jade is mainly found in the Neolithic Age and the Bronze Age. Later, with the prosperity of the bronze smelting industry and the emergence of ironware, such production tools made of jade materials gradually disappeared. Jade tools for production tools mainly include axe, arrow, cymbal, jin, chisel, knife, etc., and there is no difference between the shape of the bronze tool. There are a lot of jade tools unearthed in Yinxu Women's Tomb, Sanxingdui Sacrifice Pit, and Jiangxi Xingan Tomb.

Daily necessities

This kind of jade is often called jade utensils. The earliest known in the Shang Dynasty was the jade. In the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Jade Cup, the Jade, the Jade, the Jade, and the Yu Yu were very common. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, jade cups, jade bowls, jade bottles, etc. appeared in large numbers, and jade tableware, stationery, wine sets, etc., were even more prosperous. In the Qing Dynasty, the variety and quantity of jade articles for daily necessities reached historical peaks.

Furnishing class

In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were some small round jade carvings without perforations, which may be the jade ornaments at that time. In the Qing Dynasty, the jade furnishings reached its peak. The jade-type jade articles mainly include Yushanzi, Yupingfeng, and jade beasts. In addition, jade-style stationery appliances, such as pen holders, book towns, and pen holders, can also be classified into furnishings.

Miscellaneous

Refers to jade that cannot be classified into the above categories. More common are jade hooks, jade Ruyi, jade, jade, jade, jade and so on.

In the course of thousands of years of development of Chinese traditional jade articles, the vast majority have evolved with the changes of the times. No matter a variety or a shape, only a few are relatively stable.

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