The Spirits Of Royal Jade Works In Beijing

This paper researches the spirits of Royal Jade works in Beijing. Firstly, it teasesout the history and cultural background of the Royal Jade works of Beijing, andconcludes their differences in culture and spirit from the jade works of other areas.Besides, it interprets the Royal Jade works of Beijing from the viewpoint of socialanthropology, in which this paper looks on the jade works as an ecosystem andanalyzes the relationship between the small systems such as people ,trade andworkshop; and then researches into each small system to analyzes its composition,organization and management, rules, and paradigm. Finally, it unscrambles theprocess, method, craft values and creation methodology of the Royal Jade works ofBeijing.After the analysis of design ecosystem, this paper concludes that the traditionalhandicraft has become a kind of technical carrier in the long time of everyday life andit reflects a certain level of reality at that time. The values of the handicraft are notonly in the technical accomplishment itself but also in the cultural tradition and innerquality. The unique political change history with national history of jade is the uniquestyle formed a city of culture background and civic values and cultural pattern ofcontained in the imperial political orientation and elite culture orientation aftersuccessive participants from different aspects of temper, and the purification, hasformed a form of traditional craft can have the authority of professional discourselegitimacy, deep penetration in jade for technical spirit and culture. This uniqueculture and history in Kyoto jade key gives special research samples values.Chinese traditional culture and universal views of value compose a suit of mildand natural world order. The material world and people's inner world build a stablerelationship accordingly. This is one of the reasons why jade could represent all kindsof personalities and cultural meanings, and why it can even modify people'scharacters and behaviors. Such order and relationship could response the lost andconfused situation of industrial civilization nowadays. Therefore, the analysis of theRoyal Jade works of Beijing should be open-oriented. It is taken into considerationin this paper that how to absorb the spirit of traditional culture into modern life andmodern design and supply a new orientation to the exploration of the ideality anddirection of China's future design.