Early Jade In The Shang And Xi Zhou Dynasties Relics Unearthed Jade Research

China’s jade culture has a long history,since ancient times have "love jade","jade",and the thought of "your jade",it also makes the noble and collect the beautiful jade tradition handed down from ancient times in China.Because the tradition,the generation before often appears in the late burial relics.Because jade is neither like earthenware so fragile,also don’t like Shu qi easily again or destroyed,and smaller volume,carving delicate,the possibility of a circulating also increased greatly.Has quite a few scholars pay attention to the past often occurs in the shang and western zhou dynasty ruins early shape of jade,in order to solve this problem,many scholars through the modelling of jade comparing with style and to illustrate the origin of early jade,and speculated that the spread of it.According to the data collected at present,some of these "early jade articles" may have been handed down,while others did not rule out the imitation of early jade articles.The author referred to these early forms of jade as "early jade".On the basis of previous studies,this paper makes a systematic review of the early jade ware unearthed in shang and xizhou ruins,and discusses the related problems.Most of the jade articles involved in this article are mainly from tombs,and there are also a small number of ash pits,strata or collections.The main contents are as follows:The paper consists of three parts.The first part summarizes the early jade articles unearthed in shang and xizhou ruins,and divides them into two parts: shang dynasty and western zhou dynasty.In mid and late shang dynasty unearthed early jade has a large number of explosion,the source of the jade has become widespread,almost covers the liangzhu culture,hongshan culture,neolithic culture and Shi Guhe culture with the jade culture.However,the early jade articles unearthed at the western zhou site were mostly inherited from the shang dynasty jade.In the second part of tombs unearthed early jade background analysis,mainly of examining Mu Zhu Ren identity and early jade unearthed position,analysis the level of early jade features,gender and race characteristics.In the early shang dynasty,the early jade articles were found in the second and third grade tombs in the wangji area in the late shang dynasty.In the western zhou dynasty,the early jade ware was distributed more evenly in the wangki area and the same family name,and the time span was three periods in the early middle and late western zhou dynasty.In the early graves of the various kingdoms,the early jade was unearthed,and the later period was very rare.