The Research Of Spring And Autumn Period Jades

The Spring and autumn period jade is an important component of Chinese Pre-Qin archaic jades development history and a connecting link between the preceding and the following.At Spring and autumn period,the regulations of Zhou period has been destroyed,and political power begin to mastered by seigneurs.Under this background,there has been several political center coexistent around central plains region.At that time,except for Zhou which capital founding at central plains,there were Qin state of the west,Qi state of the east,Jin state of the north,Chu state of the South and Wu,Yue state of the southeast,they all dominate parts of the Chinese mainland.This background determined the appearance of the pluralism and multilevel jade development center in China.When jade emergence,it becomes social differentiation products and used by the rules to control society as sacrificial vessel.The excavation of Spring an autumn jade for the present,except small quantity found of alliance,majority of them excavated from the graves of upper class.This phenomenon adequacy explanation jade is used by upper class all the way for feudal ethical code function during the spring an autumn period.Therefore jade has special functions to ancient China during the process of the historical development. At early stage,the out features is both new and old jade simultaneous appearance,Traditional larger than innovation.After metaphase,because of the several political center coexistent, jade development trend to partition road.Jade making style of Qin,Chu,Yi,Zhongyuan,Yue became the mainstream of jade development.The worship to Long and favor of Jade becomes two basic points of Chinese traditional culture historical development.This historical development characteristics,has turn to stereotype from early Hongshan culture of the Neolithic Age.Since Hongshan culture, passages Longshan period,till Xia,Shang and Xizhou dynasty to Spring and autumn period,Long pattern has became a eternity theme of Chinese Jade.At Spring and autumn period,seigneurs dispute and coexist,there were several jade center,but Long pattern prevalence all around.The phenomenon of Long-shaped wear jade excavated at all districts, express that Chinese culture’s worship to Long embodiment come down in one continuous line since Neolithic Age.