Talking about the meaning of jade carving

The word "yu" is a beautiful and noble word in people's minds. In ancient poetry, jade is often used to describe and describe all good people or things. "The book has its own gold house, and the book itself has Yan Ruyu." The magical use of words also makes many people, things, events and scenes shine for them. As for the beauty of jade, used to praise the beauty's beauty, this form of tolerance of people's style is "slim," "Yushu Linfeng," "Jade Jie Bingqing," jade. It is always associated with beautiful things.Yu is a symbol of peace. As for pure jade, dense texture, it is often used to metaphorize chastity, festival meaning, such as "Keeping in shape like jade", "Yujie Bingqing", "it is rather jade broken, Not all tiles."

Jade is also widely used to describe the landscape of nature. Some pure white flowers are often preceded by the name of "jade", such as magnolia, jade, etc.; "Yulong" metaphor for snow, but also quite spectacular.

Explaining from the perspective of ancient Chinese state political theory, geographically speaking, jade is regarded as the master of all things in heaven and earth; from the origin, jade is interpreted as the essence of heaven and earth; from liturgy, jade is advertised as a model of morality; Functionally, jade is regarded as a fetish for evil spirits and longevity.

Jade carvings are concentrated in the form of beauty in the pursuit of beauty. If you leave the formal beauty, you will not be able to call it jade carving. Jade carving is created through the processing of raw material arts, so that valuable jade and superb craftsmanship are organically combined, resulting in rich fun and appreciation. In other words, the jade carving creation is an artistic image formed according to the rules of formal beauty.

Jade carving and the quintessence of the Peking Opera art pay attention to the light plot, emphasizes the content of the form, and emphasizes the beauty of the form. Jade carving creation of course reflects life and expresses certain ideological content. However, it differs from painting in terms of degree, form, and expression. It is expressed in a highly generalized, exaggerated, allegorical, symbolic manner, such as the Four Seasons Flower. At the same time open, the sun shines at the same time.

The beauty of jade carvings can be summed up in three aspects: the beauty of the texture of raw materials, the beauty of appearance, and the beauty of structure. Now we will focus on these three aspects, aiming at enlightening the appreciation of jade carving works.

1.1 The texture of raw materials

Naturally produced things have the characteristics of beauty, the physical properties of jade materials themselves, the texture of materials, and the natural beauty.

A piece of jade usually presents a variety of colors, and their color changes are generally reflected in multi-colored beauty. For example, changes in color bars and color blocks can show a certain sense of rhythm. The aesthetic taste of jade carving is based on the rhythm and gives a tone of color to form rhythm. The rhythm can give people interest and satisfy people's spiritual enjoyment. The color rhythm of jade can be determined by the regularity of different colors appearing in a certain direction. For example, tiger skin jade stripe pattern resembles tiger's pattern change, variegated refers to the law that cannot say change, but beautiful multicolor changes.

This is also a unique advantage for jade carving. A successful jade carving work is to make full use of and play the texture beauty of raw materials. This involves some technical problems in the design and production of jade carvings. The basic point is to dig dirty, highlight the beauty of jade, and return to reality. In designing and creating a rule, it is to measure materials and materials, and to apply materials in accordance with the materials.

1.2 form beauty

It is the image of the entire shape. Jade transparency and smooth finish are not so conspicuous in detail. This should work in appearance. With a fully exposed appearance to stimulate the visual and impress the mind. At the same time, attention should also be paid to the comparison of complications, density, reality, and movement to achieve perfect results.

1.3 Structural Form Beauty

In the production of jade carvings, in the image characterization, they all require a clear structure, certain concreteness, meticulousness, and a clear understanding of the context. Attention should be paid to the details of the leaves, scales, and feathers. The expression of the hair must always be clear and meticulous. The relationship between representative and key details and tradeoffs is clear and concrete. For example, the collars, sleeves, streamers of flowers, flower heads and leaves of flowers, no matter how they are summarized, exaggerated, deformed or simplified, but the basic structural relationships, dynamic relationships, growth patterns, and ups and downs should be clarified. ,sure.

Practice has proved that jade can only become exquisite works of art in order to maximize its aesthetic value through the ingenious design and uncanny work of jade artists. Any art has its external form. The author's thoughts and feelings as well as the subject matter to be expressed must be expressed in some form. Therefore, formal beauty occupies an important position in any artistic creation.

Aesthetic principles such as jade styling: 1, symmetry principle; Liangzong culture of jade ancestors is a model of application of symmetry principles. 2. The principle of factuality and reality; Yulong of Longshan culture, etc., hollow carving and modeling, moving and talking each other, and comparing facts with each other, is one of the sources of Chinese artistic spirit. 3, color, the principle of filling the material; since the Warring States period, the color jade is the full expression of the aesthetic potential of jade.

Jade decoration is an organic part of the model. The shape and ornamentation, the unity of content and form complement each other and blend into one. Thousands of years of jade ornamentation can be summed up in macroscopic terms with the theme rhyme; the mystery of the Neolithic Age (the jade animal face in Longshan, Hongshan, and Lianggao culture), and the etiquette of the Shang and Zhou dynasties (Liu Rui, The requirements of the jade system of the six devices), the colorful nature of the Warring States Han Dynasty (geometry, beasts and patterns of endless changes in the performance of decorative ornaments). In the Tang and Song dynasties, there was a combination of harmony and customs in the Ming and Qing dynasties (a large number of wenwan and yaixing, and themes and textures of the police customs were displayed in the jade ware.

The appreciation of a work of art is limited by experience and knowledge, so that we are often lost in its external form. For the appreciation of this kind of artwork, people are often affected by its external forms, such as the simplicity of shape, the ancestors of the sculpture, the conciseness of the lines, the external tension, the mystery of the atmosphere, etc. The surface of things to understand its inner meaning, so as to explore its laws and characteristics, which requires us to have a deep understanding of Chinese traditional culture.

The change in people's aesthetic needs has played an important role. From the bright brown jade culture aesthetics to the Han Dynasty jade concise “Han 8”, the artistic and aesthetic factors contained in the modeling have greatly developed. The breakthrough in the restrictions on tools and methods for the production of jade materials and jade tools is not only a matter of grasping the material laws and inventions (discovery), but also “creating them according to the laws of the United States”.

Our aesthetic form of jade can be attributed to the pattern of texture, color, beauty, and beauty. The early jade materials are the precious stones that the ancestors discovered during the long process of using stone tools and are precious for their texture, tenacity, moistness, crystal clearness and bright color. Material beauty is the most basic aesthetic form of jade. The separation of jade from the stone is precisely the result of the aesthetic nature of the material from the jade itself.