How did people use jade in ancient times?

Since ancient times, jade has been a luxury, especially in ancient times, and it is a status symbol.

The jade of ancient people is generally used as an accessory, women's words, the jade is polished into beads or jade bracelets, hairpins, etc., we can often see on TV costume dramas, as soon as a woman meets, hey, in order to express joy or like each other, she will take off her hand and wear a jade bracelet and say, "If you don't prepare anything in advance, you will accept this bracelet".

You can often see the hosta on their heads, if the jade is very good and the carving is very good, some people will praise "Ah, your hosta is really beautiful".

For men, jade is generally polished into a jade pendant to wear on the body, this jade pendant is a symbol of status, the carved text or pattern on it, can represent the identity of this person, can often be seen on TV and say, "You take my jade pendant, go there to find me, as soon as they see this jade pendant, they will know".

In the present, although jade is not expensive to afford, but the price is not low, in ancient times when tool technology was not developed, jade is used to polish into a variety of status symbols.

Before the Shang Dynasty, craftsmen carved jade with stone tools. Flat jade is used to grind the stone to the required thickness, and the holes are usually drilled repeatedly with hardwood sticks or pointed stones or animal teeth, and water and hard sand are added from time to time. Many of the ancient jade are carved with yin and yang lines, and hard stones such as quartz are also used to carve patterns on the surface of animal teeth, and then hard stones of various shapes are used to slowly grind away the unwanted parts, and then soft materials such as animal skins and fine soil are used to polish, and it takes a lot of labor to complete a finished product!

In the Shang Dynasty, there were metal tools to replace stone tools, such as metal stones and corundum to make flowers!

In terms of carving, the figurines and statues derived from the widespread use of pottery in the primitive period are not only the products of aesthetics and symbolism, but also the products of the gradual formation of customs by the primitive ancestors. As a result, the era of "martyrdom on behalf of others" began, and the figurines were incorporated into the official cultural system of the Chinese nation that lasted for thousands of years. The same is true of the art of stone carving, where the shaping and carving of animals is the product of funerary folklore, and the placement of stone statues for the tomb of Huo Quai, and its continuation across the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Ming and Qing dynasties is the official rule of "great folk customs".

Therefore, folk customs, as the background and background color of traditional Chinese culture, play a continuous and constant role. This is one of the blood relations between folk customs and the overall style of Chinese culture.

The so-called "jade is not cut into a tool" is "cut and grinded". Add water grinding, so smooth and clear. Unlike other carving processes with knives. Have you read "The Funeral of a Muslim", there is a lot of writing there, and the tool is called "water stool".

There is a thing called jade sand.

Especially in ancient times, jade was used for a wide range of purposes, and the ancients could not do without jade in their lives, and jade was found in many scenes. The following is a brief analysis for you, and readers can have an understanding in advance.

First of all, jade was originally used as a dining utensil. Because the ancients at that time lived a prosperous life, they began to pursue the quality of life. Therefore, after the jade was successfully made, they replaced all the previous tableware and chose to use jade to preserve food.

Therefore, many jade objects that are now circulating in the eyes of the public are jade plates, jade cups, etc. At this time, people paid attention to the practical value of jade, so it looked very down-to-earth.

Secondly, with the change of people's living habits, many jade objects were used as ornaments. In film and television works, we can see that jade is often placed in the mansions of dignitaries. Because the shape of these jade objects is very unique, and the pattern style is also varied.

Being placed in the home can make the overall style more cultural. Therefore, jade culture is also widely spread in China. A lot of jade has also changed from dinner plates to flower pots and bottled artworks, which are more ornamental and can be collected by the public, so many people like to place jade at home.

In addition, jade also generates a lot of symbolic value. In ancient times, jade was generally very common in rituals, and jade was also present in many burial tombs. This is because the ancients deified jade, believing that jade represented a very noble and noble quality.

Especially the literati, they all liked to wear jade pendants around their waists. It makes them look more literate. Therefore, at this time, jade has undergone great changes, not only as a simple use item, but also as a status symbol, and even a tool to remember the ancestors.

Ancient jade was used as ornaments. Moreover, exquisite jade products are a symbol of status in ancient times. Dai Yu was very popular with the ancients. And young men and women will give each other jade pendants.

Basically, it's for setting up or drinking. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's wine vessels were made of jade. It was to show the strength of the emperor.

1. Pounding sand and grinding pulp: In the past, the hardness of the jade stone itself was not enough to grind off a part of the jade. It is relying on the sand between the stone and the jade, grinding off a certain part of the jade little by little. Sand pounding and grinding with branches is to process the sand used for grinding to the required level of fineness.

2. In ancient times, carved jade and jade were cut with special wires: natural jade was irregular, and at the beginning, people used ropes. This inspiration may have come from the friction of the time**, which repeatedly rubbed the jade with a rope to make the jade heat up and then break.

3. The processing technology of Feiyan cracked jade completely inherits the traditional processing technology of Tanzabe Min jade, and the jade cutting process and production tools are exactly the same. To sum up, it can be roughly divided into the following steps: Material selection: Material selection is the first step in the jadeite processing process, which is very important.

4. Jadeite is formed by metasomatization of granite and pale gabbro under the pressure of 12 14kPa and under the action of hot water solution with high chemical potential of sodium.

What was the purpose of jade in ancient times? Please see my following:1

Jade was a tool used to worship the gods in primitive society, and the carving tools were backward at that time, so the appearance of jade was simple, and there were many mysterious patterns on the surface of jade; 2.Jade began to be used as an ornament for nobles after the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and this one continued until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when many royal nobles were proud to wear jade; 3.In feudal society, the use of jade was initially used as a funeral item after the death of nobles, and this custom continued until the Han Dynasty, from the Tang Dynasty, due to the development of metallurgy, the continuous development of gold and silverware, jade began to be used as people's daily home decoration.

Hope the above is helpful to you.

In ancient times, there were dozens of kinds of jade titles, such as "Bi, Qiong, Jue, Huang, Bi, Zhang" and so on, "Wang" next to the expression, the other half of the cousin, in order to specify the type and quality of jade.

1. "Bi" refers to green jade;

2. "Joan" refers to a very beautiful jade;

3. Juhu "Jue" refers to two pieces of jade together;

4. "Huang" refers to half-walled jade;

5. "Bi" is a kind of jade, which the ancients used to bless the first trip of peace;

6. "Zhang" is a jade shaped like half a gui;

7. The original meaning of "Gui" is also the jade given by the Son of Heaven to the princes in ancient times;

8. "Ying" originally meant a stone as smooth as jade.