Jade Cong Ornamentation Of Liangzhu Culture

Jade cong is a kind of jade that is circle inner barrel outer,and it is one of themost important sacrificial vessel in ancient China.Its basic shape is the cube ofoutside,and it have a round hole in the middle.If you want to classify for jade cong,itcan be divided into the two categories as following:the circle inner barrel outer ofSquariy jade cong and no corners of braceletical jade cong.Jade cong as arepresentative of the Liangzhu culture has an important position in archaeologyresearch,and then,the study is rather fat in the current.The word of “cong” haveappeared in the Chou Rituals.Cong will be divided into different sizes and species inthe Chou Rituals.In the Han dynasty,Confucianism did explain to cong on the basis ofthe Chou Rituals.Shuowen Jiezi:“Jade cong,is the auspicious jade and have eightinches long like wheels”. That is the first name for jade cong.As many unearthed jadeis spread abroad as decorative peculiar jade cong become foreign scholars researchtopics of concern.Fanshan and Yaoshan’s discovery and excavation of the reportstarted the academic discussion of comprehensive system of jade cong.It based on thejade cong grain discusses of Liangzhu culture in this paper.The analysis to its name，and it’s going to comb its cultural development.To its classification and classificationfrom the grain as following:Beast grain type,Simplify the god beast grain type and soon. From these jade cong decorative features can be seen it, basicaked which isPreliminary development, Prosperity of the peak and Began to decline stage.Itroughly corresponds to the time period is respectively.It have the early of Liangzhuculture,the middle and the late of Liangzhu culture.At the same time,it compared tothe rest of the world civilization with the same period.And found some decorativecharacteristics between east and west.Finally, it will be to discuss the culturalconnotation of jade cong and symbolic significance on the basis of predecessors’research.And found the man of god beast grain similar to the toad’s elements.