Comparative Study Of China And America In Xia Shang Jade Shape And Ornamentation

In the history of mankind, there have been three major jade culture.They are Chinese jade culture,American jade culture and New Zealand jade culture.Which New Zealand jade culture started late, although the continuation of today, but limited cultural heritage.And the other two jade culture is the origin of the earlier.Although the American jade culture in the end of five hundred years ago, but there are still thousands of years of accumulation can be studied.Since 1950 s, the archaeological excavations of ancient civilizations in Central America have been paid more and more attention by the academic circles. Some no has already been found in the ruins of discovered or rediscovered, resulting in multi group of American orr Mei grams of civilization and the Mayan civilization of jade wares were unearthed. Unfortunately,western scholars on the study of jade is not high, coupled with a number of reasons led to a lot of errors on the classification. The study of the culture of the Central American jade until today is almost a blank state.I use a few years time collecting domestic and foreign books and documents,visited the museum exhibition, accumulated a lot of data and photographs of the exhibits, after repeated comparison objects, pictures, and literature, shapes and decorations of jade in China and in America the comparative study on the system.But unfortunately, the invasion of the Spanish led to the interruption of the ancient civilizations of Central America. The destruction of the Western colonial system is not the economic value of the Native American culture. So the number of ancient jade works unearthed in Central America today is very small.The study shows that the Chinese jade culture from the most original not too many rules of the shape toward a more quantitative, more rich variety of the same type system more standardized direction of development. At the same time, jade ornamentation from scratch from simple to complex, step by step of from the base line towards the direction of the development of the symbolic meaning. For example,from no other decoration, simple C Dragon to the development of the Han Dynasty Jade ring has complex expression.There are many different points in the development of Chinese jade culture,which is mainly the difference in the development direction. From the perspective of the shape, the early Middle American jade and late works have no great difference.Although there is a certain development, but it is only in the traditional shape there are a number of small changes. From the decorative pattern, the Central American people tend to record text and some real images at the time of the jade, such as the king’s face, etc.. This is very different from the positioning of Chinese ancient jade carvings.The author draws the following conclusions: first, there is no affiliation between Chinese ancient jade culture and American ancient jade culture. Second, two types of jade culture has formed some common points in the same period of development. But the change of the type of jade and the variety and significance of the decoration over time, the development of culture, and gradually embarked on a completely different road two. Until the last two are not much alike.