(A) the value of goods
1, beautiful material
(1) Gloss is moist and soft.
(2) The appearance is the same, as can be seen from the appearance.
(3) The sound is comfortable and clear.
④ The texture is hard.
⑤ The fracture is angular and sharp, but it doesn't hurt people.
These five natures were dubbed by the ancients as "benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, courage and generosity", commonly known as "five virtues".
2. Beautiful colors
Jade has many colors, such as green, blue, red, yellow, purple and white. They are rich and gorgeous, giving people a feeling of vitality, such as fresh life, giving people beautiful enjoyment and full of vitality.
Step 3: Beautiful shapes
The beautiful shape of jade can not only make it appreciate itself, but also integrate into the cultural connotation of Chinese civilization and express its good wishes and yearning for a better life in the future. The beauty of modeling gives people a sense of beauty, satisfaction and happiness.
4. Implicit category
Jade is subtle and charming, representing oriental feelings. Its luster is not heavy, but deep and heavy, which is the quality that people pursue and praise.
5. Rare beauty
Jade resources are non-renewable, high-grade raw materials are scarce, the market demand is growing, and exotic goods can live. Because scarcity produces beauty, the pursuit of a new jade art is the pursuit of a spiritual quality and material sublimation.
(2) Cultural and artistic value
A jade article, expressing an aesthetic consciousness, a belief and sustenance, has been given new meaning and played a new role in the development process. Jade has a long-standing reputation in history, dating back thousands of years. It has been circulated for a long time and is deeply loved by people and regarded as a treasure. Not only is jade excellent and rare in the world, but it also plays a special role in politics, culture, morality, religion and so on. Therefore, in people's minds, jade has the connotation of national tradition. It is a material concept and a comprehensive concept of social culture.
Jade represents a culture.
People have a special feeling for jade. In daily life and interpersonal communication, jade is used to symbolize happiness and auspiciousness, wish longevity and health, express loyalty and loyalty, symbolize elegance and eternity, make jade pleasing to the eye, beautify and protect the body ... People have influenced jade, its brilliance is more and more gorgeous because of people's love, and people's sentiment is also cultivated and sublimated because of its brilliance.
Jade represents an art.
People use jade patterns to express their ideals and emotions, and carve out the art that came into being. The carving art of jade has reached a perfect state through the processing of skilled craftsmen.
3. Jade represents a quality.
Jade is simple in texture, rich in color and subtle in stone. In the long-term observation and experience of jade, people have extended their association and realized many philosophies about life. The quality of jade is the embodiment of people's spiritual pillar and traditional virtue, which is also the reason why jade lasts for a long time. It has become the carrier of cultivating noble character, good will, perfect image, good mood and sentiment, and also expresses people's pursuit of peace, honesty, elegance and perfection.
Jade represents a kind of beauty.
The beauty of jade is mainly embodied in the material beauty and the spiritual beauty after personification. Jade is beautiful in material, color, shape, meaning and mystery, which is incomparable to many precious stones. A gentleman has five virtues, but jade has both. The ancients used jade as a metaphor for benevolence, color as a metaphor for wisdom, sound as a metaphor for plum, hardness as a metaphor for law and texture as a metaphor for law. The beauty of jade personification lies in mind, virtue, kindness, wisdom, justice, humility, harmony, loyalty and sincerity. The material beauty of jade is only a material form, and the core of beauty that people appreciate more is the pursuit of a spiritual quality.
Jade represents a kind of power wealth.
Jade has a supreme and noble position in history, such as the "Heshi Jade" in the Warring States period, and the king of Qin is willing to exchange the value of fifteen cities; Qin Shihuang's "Pass the Imperial Seal" condensed the supreme power and majesty of a country on a piece of beautiful jade. After the death of the Qin dynasty, emperors of all dynasties tried their best to get it, and they fought for it one after another, passing through the hands of more than a dozen emperors. Nowadays, jade is a harbinger of social peace and national prosperity. As the saying goes, "If the country is rich and strong, it will prosper, and if the country is rich and strong, it will prosper", "If it is rich in years, it will prosper in poor years". "Jade hides mountains and the sun and the moon moisten, and people hide jade, and everything will flourish." More and more people begin to regard owning a good jade work as a sign of success, and get great spiritual satisfaction from it. Having a good jade symbolizes the value of identity, status and image.
6. Jade represents a spirit.
Jade absorbs the aura of the earth and the essence of the sun and the moon. After tens of millions of years of crustal changes, it can be said that it was formed after hardships. People like it not only as a desire, but also as a spiritual sentiment, because jade has a natural spirit of China-the spirit of peace, hard work and self-improvement.
Generally speaking, people admire, love and hide jade basically based on three starting points:
First of all, the decoration needs aesthetics, enhances one's sentiment, and also places one's good wishes.
Second, there is a return on investment, and a small investment is a great return, which is also a wealth for future generations and easy to collect. "Poetry and books are handed down from generation to generation, and good jade is handed down from generation to generation."
3. Giving gifts to relatives and friends, as a tradition of the Chinese nation, is both steady and grand, and also expresses good wishes to relatives and friends.