Study On The Jade Decoration Of Qing Dynasty

The making and using of jade has a history is more than seven thousand years in China. During Qing dynasty, jade art reached a height which based on the progress of technology. The style of jade of Qing dynasty summarized the styles of pre-dynasties and showed the rich and colorful cultural connotation of Chinese jade art, whose character is in terms of decoration, which not only inherited the tradition of the dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, but also created the new style based on the combination with the distinct characteristics of pre-times. During Qing dynasty, imperial jade and folk jade were both developed, and promoted reach other. As a result, the productions technique of decorations in Qing dynasty inherited and improved the traditional character of Ming dynasty, and makes the combination more closely, use a variety of carving techniques to make the literati painting on the jade, reflects the writers pursue advanced realm of ideology and culture connotation. Especially along with the china and foreign communication strengthen of mid Qing dynasty, jade’s decoration production gradually influenced by the style of foreign culture, decoration’s content developed to a situation it could contain everything, and reflected a initiative inspiration that could accept every new things. Especially, in the Qing dynasty, a number of auspicious patterns are created and use, although they are lack noble style to the Imperial jade, and compare to the Imperial jade less aborative in the carving techniques, it reflects the common aspiration for the bottom of the ordinary people to pursue good fortune as one wishes, overall reflect the aesthetic appeal of a fit, together these features formed in the Qing dynasty jade decorative style.Jade in the Qing dynasty is an important part of Chinese ancient jade culture. Jade grain variety, characteristic is bright, style with the change, on the basis of inheriting the former generation will boldly at that time, aesthetic taste and evaluation standard is blended in among them, break through the routine of jade decoration production in China. Because time is tight in the Qing dynasty nearly and particularity, although Qing dynasty’s tombs all over each provinces throughout the country, but unearthed jade is less from now, for the implements of the study is given priority to with the jade handed down from ancient times. This article attempt to collect unearthered and inherited jades of Qing dynasty all over the country, through classifying these jade’s decoration to research, explore the characteristics of all kinds of decorative design in a utensil, in combination with the era background of the Qing dynasty and the cultural characteristics to explore the source of the Qing Dynasty jade grain, summarizes the general characteristics of Qing dynasty jade grain.