The Origin of the Dragon Head Jade
In the story, there was a mention of a dragon's head jade. In order to seek marriage, someone needed to find the dragon's head jade, but failed. Among the archaeological discoveries in China, dragon-shaped jade articles were unearthed from Hongshan cultural sites. For example, the C-shaped dark green jade dragon carved by He was first discovered in the spring of 1971 in Sanxing Tara Village of Wengniute Banner. Northeast archaeologists believed that it was the earliest and largest dragon-shaped jade article in China. This may be the embodiment of the concept of dragon head jade in archaeological objects, and experts believed that one of the original sources of dragon head image was related to pig head. The origin and birth of dragons were closely related to primitive agriculture. In addition, a dragon-headed jade was also unearthed at the Lingjiatan site in Anhui Province. This site was the center of the Neolithical settlement site from 5800 to 5300 years ago. The dragon-headed jade was the only one discovered in prehistoric archaeology in China. It was of great significance to the study of the prehistoric jade system in China and its influence on the etiquette system in historical periods. The novel " Gilded Palm " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Dragon Head Jade Pendant
The Dragon Head Jade Pendant was a type of jade ornament. Judging from the material, there were many kinds of jade such as emerald and Hetian jade that were used to make the dragon head jade pendant. The price varied according to the type, quality, and craftsmanship of the jade. For example, there was a Burmese jade pendant that sold for 24.7 yuan, and there was also a jade pendant that sold for 103.4 yuan. In terms of cultural significance, the dragon head, as a symbol of traditional culture and the Year of the Dragon, had a mysterious and auspicious meaning. It was suitable for people who were interested in culture and history to wear, which could show their hobbies and respect for culture. It was also suitable for collectors. High-quality dragon head jade pendants were often made of high-grade jade. After fine craftsmanship and unique design, they had a high collection value. Some believers believed that it had a certain position in Feng Shui and Buddhist teachings. Wearing dragon head jade pendants could bring good luck and protection. In terms of shape, the tail-biting dragon pendant of the Han Dynasty was a typical dragon head jade pendant. It was usually carved with a ring-shaped jade dragon with its head and tail connected. The dragon pattern on the dragon pendant had a wide mouth, long horns leaning back, round eyes, sharp wings, and claws. The forelimbs stepped on the tail, opened the mouth and bit the tail to play. The body was beautiful and winding. The dragon body was carved with smooth gossamer hair carving techniques. There were ancient and round residual drill marks. The lines flowed with the shape, giving it a dynamic feeling. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
The origin of the full-time expert, Dragon Raises Its Head
Dragon Raises Its Head was a technique invented by Battle Mage Ye Xiu in The King's Avatar. It was invented to increase the accuracy of the skill Rising Dragon Soars the Sky, allowing the dragon formed by the skill to shake its head. Regarding the origin of the dragon raising its head, the literature linked the dragon raising its head with the festival customs after the Yuan Dynasty. The image of a dragon appeared in the records of the Han Dynasty, such as the activities of dragon dance to pray for rain. There was no record of the dragon raising its head in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the search results did not provide any information on the specific origin of Dragon Raises Its Head. While waiting for the anime, you can also click on the link below to read the classic original work of The King's Avatar!
Jade Beast Head Holding Jade
The jade beast's head holding the jade was a cultural relic of the Western Han Dynasty. It was unearthed from the tomb of the Nanyue King in Xianggang, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. It was a decorative jade carved from a whole piece of green jade. Its main feature was that it was not symmetrical. It was composed of a square beast head and a grain-patterned jade wall. The artifact used three techniques: hollowed-out, shallow embossed, and line carving. The lines were smooth and the carving was exquisite. It was 18.2 cm in length, 11.3 cm in beast head, 13.8 cm in width, and 0.7 cm in thickness. The jade wall had a diameter of 8.9 cm, an aperture of 3.4 cm, and a thickness of 0.4 cm. The color of the jade was light yellow sapphire with brown spots. Most of it was white and lost its luster. Only the beast's nose and the jade wall were warm and translucent. The main pattern was a square-shaped openwork beast head (auxiliary head). The beast's eyes were open angrily, and there was a horizontal mustache. There was a hole in the beast's nose, and it held a jade. On the right side of the beast head, there was a hornless tiger with a single horn, a sharp mouth, and vertical ears. Its tail was curled up and its head was facing down. In the early Western Han Dynasty, the round carvings of animals with jade animal heads and jade jade in their mouths were beautiful and orderly, so they were called "true embossed". It is now in the collection of the Western Han Dynasty Nanyue King Museum in Guangzhou.
The Origin of Jade
In ancient China culture, cats had the same pronunciation as "old" and butterflies had the same pronunciation as "old". The term "old" referred to people over 80 years old, which implied the beauty of health and longevity. In jade, craftsmen often used cat butterflies as the theme to carve and create. Cats were lying down, looking gentle and obedient. Butterflies were often carved on the tail of cats, which not only showed the cat's playful nature, but also expressed the beautiful meaning of health and longevity through the homonym of cat butterflies. From a historical point of view, in the middle of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were jade articles with the theme of old age, such as handles, pendants, ornaments, etc. The materials were excellent, the craftsmanship was skillful, and the shape was vivid. These jade articles carried the beautiful yearning for longevity in China traditional culture. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Jade Human Head
In the cultural area of Shimao Ruins in Shaanxi Province (4300 - 3800 years ago, located in Shimao Village, Gaojiabao Town, Shenmu City, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province), there were unearthed cultural relics related to jade figures. Among them, the head of SSY122 jade figure of Shimao Culture was almost milky white. The jade surface was round and smooth with wax luster. The color was soft and elegant. Some parts were buried with brown spots for a long time. They were 4.5 cm high, 4.1 cm wide and 0.5 cm thick. They were in a sheet shape. They were carved with shallow embossed and Yin line. They were in a side silhouette double-sided image. They had a serene face and a natural expression. They had a round face, slightly bulging cheeks, concise and vivid facial features. There was an oval bun or a small crown on the top of their heads. They had an aquiline nose. The mouth was protruding and slightly open like a smile. There was an olive-shaped beadless eye on each side. The big ears protruded from the back of the head. The lower jaw was slightly retracted and the lower part was a thin short neck. There was also a round hole in the middle of the cheek that could be used for wearing. In addition, there were also soft jade, slightly yellow jade heads collected by the people. Their square faces, aquiline noses, olive-shaped big eyes, bulging cheeks, protruding ears, and pierced cheeks were very similar to the jade heads collected by the Shaanxi History Museum. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Horse Head Jade
Horsehead jades had different characteristics and values in different periods. The jade horse head from the Warring States Period, such as the one currently collected in the Zhongzang Guild Hall in Beijing, was made of Hetian bluish-white jade. It was 15.8 cm high, 10.6 cm wide, and 6.3 cm thick. The horse's head was purplish red in color, with brown and black spots in between. Some windows opened to reveal bluish white jade. The horse's eyes were round, its mouth was slightly open, and its ears were upright. The horse's mane was meticulously carved, the side of the horse's neck was decorated with dense cloud patterns and feather patterns, the cheeks and forehead were carved with smooth cloud patterns, and the front of the horse's neck was carved with taotie patterns. The whole vessel was finely carved and decorated with gorgeous patterns. Its artistic value was quite high. The jade horse of the Han Dynasty had many kinds of shapes such as round carving and sheet carving. The round carved jade horse head was more unique. For example, the Han Dynasty jade horse head hidden in the Victoria Albert Museum in the United States was more famous. The 2016 Hong Kong Jiade Spring Auction and the 2020 Sotheby's auction in New York all had items related to the Han Dynasty jade horse head. There was also a type of Han Dynasty jade horse-head shaped ware called horse-head jade seal. For example, a round carving of a 8.3-centimeter high jade horse-head had a vivid carving on its head. Except for the window on the forehead, the whole body was covered with gray skin. It was engraved with 57-word inscriptions. Most of the recognizable parts were not recognized. Because of the arrangement problem, the sentence was not broken. The bottom of the horse-head was engraved with the word "Tai Ling". The inscription had the shadow of Qin bamboo slips, which was similar to the style of Han Dynasty copper carving stone. The carving rules were consistent. The middle of the characters was deep and steep, and the edge was shallow. The patina was consistent with the surface of the body. In addition, in terms of jade belt hooks, from the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was the most popular period. Among them, there was a beast-faced cloud pattern jade belt hook with a horse head. It was 6.9 cm long and 1.9 cm wide. The jade material was gray-white. The hook button was oval. The hook surface was decorated with hook and cloud pattern, and the two sides were decorated with double S patterns. There were also some special jade horse-head-shaped objects in the Han Dynasty, such as the jade horse-head collected by Harvard University. It was only the head of a horse and was made of jade. There was an oval hole carved below, and there was a rusty iron rod core in the hole, indicating that it was a pieced part mixed with perishable materials. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
The Origin of the Calabash Head
[Origin Jade Book]
" The Jade Book of the Origin " was a novel written by the Three Pure Ones. It combined the elements of the Strange Style and the Infinite Style. The background was that the invasion of the system had brought about the revival of the spiritual energy in the modern main world. In the ancient times of the main world, due to the arrival of the " spirit world," supernatural powers rose. As the spirit world could not be looked at directly, people who were radiated by the spirit world could cultivate if they found that they used myths or concepts to bind the spirit world. The transmigrator protagonist brought the supreme divine weapon, the Qingcharacteristic Palace, which could travel through the world, and built the underworld of the Heavenly Court. The protagonist traveled between different worlds, absorbing the laws and principles of different worlds. With the body and spirit of the Yellow Court as the foundation, he condensed the four immortal swords of extermination, trap, and slaughter. In the main world, he followed the fate and spread the immortal way. He used the opportunity of the Xia and Shang Dynasties to replace the heavens and become a god. He became the Taishang Yuchen Taoist Lord and the Shangqing Lingbao Primogenitor who promoted the operation of all things in the world and led the trend of the world's birth and death. The novel had a total of 1,900,300 words and was completed.
The Origin of Jade Artifacts
As for the origin of jade, the academic community speculated that it could be traced back to the late primitive society based on the records that came out later. For example, the Bamboo Book Annals and other documents mentioned that there were records of jade articles during the period of the Yellow Emperor, Shun, and Xia Yu, about 4200 years ago. At that time, the origin of jade seemed to be related to the Queen Mother of the West in the Kunlun Mountains in the West. There should be more jade origins in the Xia Yu era. However, archaeological excavation shows that the history of China people using jade is much earlier than recorded in the literature. As early as seven or eight thousand years ago, the primitive ancestors had created jade culture on both sides of the Liaohe River and Songhua River. Moreover, prehistoric jade articles were widely distributed and varied in texture. Before the Shang and Zhou Dynasties widely used Hetian jade in the Western Regions, they experienced an era of "jade and stone were not separated, and local materials were used". <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
A jade of unknown origin
If there was a jade artifact of unknown origin, one could consider it from the following aspects: ** 1. Initial identification of the jade itself ** 1. ** Hardness Test ** - Can use common items such as keys to carve jade. For example, if a jade with a higher hardness like Hetian jade was scratched with a key, it would not be scratched, but a material with a lower hardness like marble would be scratched. 2. ** Touch Judgement ** - When one touched a jade piece with one's hand, if it was a real jade, one would feel as if oil was pushed away. At the same time, there would be a slight resistance, which reflected the characteristic of being "as warm as jade." If it was an ordinary stone, one's hand would be very dry when pushing it, and there would be no such warmth. Moreover, the density of high-grade jade stones was not bad. When weighing them, there would be a certain sense of weight. For example, Hetian jade seeds would feel a little heavy, while ordinary stones would seem more floating. 3. ** Light up and observe ** - When the light shone on the jade, the natural jade would show a natural structure and look more comfortable, while the artificial jade might not have a structure and might even have bubbles. 4. ** Judgement of nephrite and jadeite (if it is confirmed to be jade)** - In terms of composition and hardness, nephrite, such as Hetian jade, was mainly composed of calcium, calcium, magnetite, and iron, with a Mohs hardness of 6 - 6.5 degrees. Jadeite, such as jade, was mainly composed of aluminum, and its hardness was 6.5 - 7 degrees. From the index of refraction and luster, the index of refraction of nephrite was about 1.61 - 1.63, usually showing a greasy luster, giving people a warm and moist feeling; while the index of refraction of jade was as high as 1.66 - 1.68, showing a glass luster, crystal clear. Nephrite was mainly composed of tremolite, and its structure was compact and delicate. Jadeite was composed of jadeite minerals, and its structure was harder. ** 2. Presumably, its value is related to its age (if there are more clues)** 1. ** Age Judgement ** - Generally speaking, jade articles from before the Han Dynasty were called "ancient jade." If this jade article was judged to be ancient jade, especially ancient jade from before the Han Dynasty, its value would be higher. High ancient jade was the source of China jade culture. As long as the age was reliable, it was often worth a lot of money when it appeared in the auction. Because ancient jade was a scarce resource, it contained rich historical and cultural information. It had high historical value and cultural relic value, and was cherished by foreign museum and senior collectors. 2. ** Value assessment (excluding age)** - From the quality of the jade (such as whether it was Hetian jade, jade, and other precious jade), craftsmanship (whether there were exquisite carvings, etc.), the degree of preservation, and other aspects, the value of the jade was considered. For example, jade had a high status in the jewelry market. In 2024, a jade bead chain was sold for a sky-high price of 214 million Hong Kong dollars. However, if you wanted to determine the value, age, and authenticity of jade articles of unknown origin, it was best to seek the help of a professional jade appraiser or archaeologist. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>