Study On The Art Of Gold And Jade In The Burial Of Rui State In Liangtai Village

In 2005,the archaeological discovery of the burial site of the State of Rui in Liangdi Village,Hancheng,Shaanxi Province,and subsequent excavations have made the "Rui" state known to the world in historical documents.It was a vassal state of the Ji surname in the Western Zhou Dynasty.As one of the vassal states of the Ji surname in the Western Zhou Dynasty,the State of Rui was located on the Yellow River Plateau at the intersection of Shan and Shaanxi,and was at its most powerful,financially and culturally,from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring and Autumn Period.Among the more than 30,000 excavated objects,the gold and jade artifacts are unique in form,rich in shape,and complete in combination compared to other funerary objects from different levels of burial,with no traces of disturbance,clearly restoring the specific locations where they were worn or placed by the tomb owners.During the pre-Qin period,states were established,and states with different geopolitical attributes had different ethnic identities.Unlike the traditional approach to the study of artifacts,the study of the functional classification of gold and jade artifacts from Liangdai Village is premised on the sense of ethnic identity of the Rui state.Through the iconographic approach,the iconographic motifs in the gold and jade decorative motifs are crawled and selected,and the overall style of the two shows the characteristics of simplification,inheritance,and multiple fusion.First,gold ware research.Liangtai Village Rui burial out of gold ware forms for the first time in the domestic contemporaneous burial concentration found.In this paper,we firstly analyze the unnamed and functionally unclear gold vessel types in the burial site,and use comparative typological evidence to make academic judgments on the name,usage,functional value and cultural origin.Lastly,in terms of the source and production process of gold mining in the state of Rui,the scientific test reports and geographical literature are combined to speculate on the casting technology and the acquisition method of gold minerals in the state of Rui.Through the above three points of tracing the origin,the genes for the formation of the artistic style of gold ware of the Rui burial in Liangtan Village are constructed.Second,jade research.Through the collation of jade archaeological data,this paper firstly classifies the function of jade under the influence of Zhou rites,and deduces that the jade system in the Rui state was equal for men and women and spanned a large period of time according to the burial level and jade form.The style of the jade from Liangtan Village was in the transitional stage from the late Western Zhou to the early Spring and Autumn period,inheriting the influence of the typical decorative motifs of dragons and humans in the mid-Western Zhou period,and developing into a symbolic,symbolic,condensed and simple style through the reformulation and re-creation of the aesthetic tendencies of the Rui community,and passing down to the aesthetic transformation and image genes of the jade from the Yellow River region in the mid and late Spring and Autumn period.The process method of jade making in the Rui State was practically simulated,and the process factors of jade style formation in the Rui State were explored by experimentally restoring the process steps of jade making in the Rui State.The decorative style of Rui jade from Liangdai Village shows a comprehensive character that breaks down geographic space and spans multiple eras,which in turn reflects the psychology of cultural identity reflected in the decoration of artifacts and proves that the Rui state identified with and accommodated the social system of "homogeneous family and state".