The development of jade articles from Song Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty implies the change of dynasties.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many very realistic works of art, such as Song Huizong. Although he was a king of national subjugation, Song Huizong was a talented artist. His accomplishments in calligraphy and fine arts can be said to be unparalleled. Will the jade articles in the Song Dynasty be as vivid and lifelike as Song Huizong's flower-and-bird pictures? Most of the handicrafts in the Song Dynasty tend to be the same, and the paintings in this period are very realistic. We have basically seen the flowers and birds in Song Huizong, and the paintings are just like photos, so jade articles also pursue this realism. For example, in the Forbidden City in Taipei, there is a jade duck, which is called realism, just like the real thing, and all the details and expressions are very realistic.

Because the Song Dynasty was an extremely pragmatic dynasty, it pursued this kind of realism, while the Tang Dynasty was a relatively retreat dynasty. The Tang Dynasty paid attention to a kind of spiritual flying and did not value very realistic things. Therefore, the works of art in the Tang Dynasty, such as "flying", are relatively empty and not so "real", because we all know that people can't fly, so the works of art in the Tang Dynasty are relatively conspicuous. In fact, the collection of jade articles can also be said to have turned around. This is the case in history, and it is also the case now. For a while, it pursued white, and then it changed, and it began to pursue leather color. Among the jade pieces in the Song Dynasty, there is another theme that is the jade man. Among Xiaoyu people, the image of "holding a lotus boy" is the most common. Holding a lotus means holding a lotus in your hand or a lotus leaf.

During the Song Dynasty, the custom of lotus and lotus leaf as playthings spread. It was described in Dream of China in Tokyo that during the first three to five days of Tanabata, children would buy new lotus leaves and hold them, so as to make a difference. At the same time, there is also such a description in "Old Wulin Story", in which children wear lotus leaves with half arms, holding lotus leaves in their hands. Mohoro is actually a transliteration, meaning "Buddha", and the expression of the image is "lotus boy". In the Song Dynasty, people thought that Mohorot, a child, was the cleverest child in the world, and he was smart and clever, which could bring joy to people.

So let the children dress up as this image on Tanabata, and hope that their children are smart. Holding lotus flowers, lotus leaves, and some dressed up as Mahalo, I also hope my children will be smart. Because holding a lotus is likened to "the lotus gives birth to your son", the design of the lotus giving birth to your son has continued from Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty and then to Qing Dynasty. In the Qing dynasty, there were a lot of designs that all painted "Lotus gives birth to your son", and a lotus and a boy were called "Lotus gives birth to your son".

What other special jade articles and stories developed in the Yuan Dynasty? In fact, our identification of jade articles in the Yuan Dynasty is relatively vague. Except for some special and distinctive Yuan Dynasty artifacts, others are either attributed to the Song Dynasty or to the Ming Dynasty. What are our clear jade articles? The most famous one is "Despise the Mountain and Jade Sea". This jade was made in the year of Zhiyuan, when the Yuan Dynasty was not established, and it was established in 1265 AD six years after it. We look at the historical chronology of the Yuan Dynasty. 1271 was the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, and it was already seven years since the Yuan Dynasty. In Kublai Khan's stage, a huge jade urn weighing 3.5 tons was made from a super-large jade material. It was originally used as a wine container.

At that time, the big jade Weng was placed on the ground before the soldiers went out to war, and it was filled with wine. Everyone scooped up another bowl and went out after drinking it, which reflected the original momentum and the spirit of the Yuan people. This big guy was first placed in the Guanghan Hall on Qiongdao Island in Beihai, which is now Beijing Beihai Park in the Yuan Dynasty. It is called Long Live Mountain or Wanshou Mountain. In the seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Guanghan Temple collapsed, and this big jade Weng was scattered. Later, it was scattered in a Zhenwu Temple outside Xihuamen in Beijing. As a result, people used it to pickle pickles, because they really didn't know what it was for.

after a lapse of more than 1 years, in 1745, the 1th year of Qianlong, Qianlong discovered this thing. Qianlong said that it was such an important thing. Why did he pickle pickles here? So I spent a lot of money to take it back, and then put it in the Chengguang Hall in Beihai, and specially built a jade urn pavilion. At that time, Qianlong wrote a royal poem, which was called "Jade Weng Song". There were three poems, and he wrote a preface and engraved it in the jade Weng's chamber. However, this "profane mountain and jade sea" also has a pedestal, which was not moved together. It is estimated that someone was lazy at that time, which is also the reason why things were too heavy. So today, these two things are still not together. This pedestal has been placed in Fayuan Temple in Beijing, and a stone bowl in the Qing Dynasty was placed on the pedestal. You see, on the pedestal of a jade urn in the Yuan Dynasty, a stone bowl in the Qing Dynasty was actually placed, which is also very interesting. More than 2 years have passed since 1745, the tenth year of Qianlong, and we have not reunited them.

but in the Ming dynasty, why did jades, which used to be very beautiful and textured in history, begin to be called "thick and bright"? Why did the second collection craze in the history of China appear in the late Ming Dynasty? How many priceless jade articles will there be in the tomb of Emperor Wanli in the late Ming Dynasty? Let's talk about the jade culture of the Ming Dynasty.

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