Traditional ritual jade

Introduction to Yuxi

Cóng is a cylindrical jade that is outside the inner circle and is one of the important rituals in ancient China. The earliest jade was found in the third phase of Xuejiagang, Anhui Qianshan, about 5100 years ago.

The jade is a kind of jade jade that is outside the inner circle. It is a kind of ritual used by ancient people to worship the gods. It is about 5100 years ago. In the middle and late Neolithic period, Yuxi appeared in the Liangzhu culture in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Shixia culture in Guangdong, and the Taosi culture in Shanxi. In particular, the jade of Liangzhu culture was the most developed, and the number of unearthed and handed down was very large.

In the selection of materials, the jade material of Liangzhu Culture is the tremolite jade stone in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The texture is impure, mostly in cyan and blue-brown. Judging from the unearthed jade, in addition to some retaining the crystal texture, most of the appearance of the jade has been eroded into pink and white, and the degree of exposure is much higher than that of the tomb. The surface color of the jade is relatively uniform, and there are no bright and varied blocky spots like the jade.

In ancient China, there was a ritual system for the worship of the earth and the sacrifice of the land.

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Red shopkeeper and Tianyu seed material jade pendant

Extended content

Yuxi, later known as "Shantou." Its use has always been thought of as a ritual of "the ritual of Huang Qi". However, since the jade of Liangzhu culture was unearthed a lot, the attachments of the warriors in the Qin and Han dynasties in the Warring States were not enough. Some scholars speculated that it was a method for the wizards to worship the ghosts and gods according to their styling and decorative features. With a strong original witchcraft color. The specific method of use remains to be verified. Yuxi is also common in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. After the Warring States and the Han Dynasty, it is rare. Its use has also been incorporated into the Confucian etiquette system, becoming a ritual or funeral.

Red shopkeeper and Tianyu seed material jade pendant red shopkeeper and Tianyu seed material jade pendant

Yuxi research

"琮" was first seen in ancient books such as "Zhou Li". Its shape is explained in "Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji Yu Man": "Dayu has two inches, shot four inches, thick inch." "White Tiger Tong·文质篇" 曰: "The middle of the tooth in the middle of the body." When Zheng Xuan replenished "Zhou Li", he said: "Hey, the eight sides are like the land." When Xu Nan of the Southern Tang Dynasty explained it, he said: "If the shape is octagonal and the middle circle." Later, it was difficult for the later generations to identify the entity, so that it was called "township" in the Southern Song Dynasty. According to the Eastern Han Xu Shen "Speaking of the Words" to the Qing Emperor Qianlong, with the words "琮, Ruiyu, big eight inches, like a car?".

According to research, Yuxi is 4,000 to 5,000 years old, and its functions and significance are:

First, one of the great rituals used for sacrifices, it is called "six instruments" with jade, jade, jade, jade, and jade. As one of the important rituals in ancient China, "Zhou Li" "to the heavens and the heavens, with the yellow rituals", Yuxi became the ritual of the ruling class to worship the vast land, but also the instrument of the wizards.

The shape of the jade is the outer circle (hole), which seems to prove that "the round is like the sky, the square is like the land" and so on. Wizards also use inferior jade, stone scorpion, or burnt jade, to the tombs to suppress evil, to corpse antiseptic, to avoid evil and exorcism.

Second, the jade is also a symbol of power and wealth. When the jade is unearthed in the tomb, it has the following characteristics: the tombs are of high specification, large in scale, and rich in funerary objects; the tomb owners are mostly male; the tombs are often accompanied by walls, and some tombs have funeral figures.

All kinds of phenomena indicate that the squatting style is closely related to the original religion and ritual etiquette. Its master must belong to the tribal chiefs and the upper priests of the high priests. From the excavation site, it can be seen that the identity of the tomb is more prominent, and the shackles in the funeral objects are The more it seems, the more it seems to show everything in its lifetime. It is used to explain the original identity of the tomb, and the extent to which it enjoys wealth and power in each tribe. It also represents a kind of funeral in the Liangzhu culture period.

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