Chen Ran opened the box and just took a look at it. His eyes lit up and his expression became solemn. I have to say that although he hadn't looked carefully yet, he knew that this jade pendant was definitely the one he had seen before.
The best jade pendant, although there are not many jade pendants he has ever seen.
The jade pendant in front of me is engraved with a scene of a white-headed bird playing with peonies. The carving techniques used include patterns and hollow carvings. At first glance, you can tell that the technique is relatively complicated. Of course, the more important thing is the artistic conception, the white-headed bird.
The liveliness and cleverness of the peony, the nobility and grandeur of the peony are expressed vividly and heartily. Just from this jade pendant, you can see the mind of the jade carver who carved this jade pendant.
In particular, the white-headed bird on the picture gives people a sense of joy that it wants to flutter out of the jade pendant and fly on your shoulders to play with you, while the noble peonies seem to be beckoning.
After taking a look at it, Chen Ran immediately understood that this jade pendant was a good thing. How good it was. The material used to carve the jade came second. The most important thing was naturally the artistic conception of the jade pendant.
But he was a little confused in his heart. Although this jade pendant was good, it should be possible to imitate it if another jade carver made it. Although the imitation might not have exactly the same artistic conception, the artistic conception would only be inferior.
It's okay if it's not too far away. Besides, even if the jade carver who carved this jade pendant is asked to carve two identical jade pendants, it's impossible for the artistic conception to be exactly the same. There must be a slight difference. This is the same as the jade carver.
It is related to the state of the jade carver. If the jade carver is in good state, he will perform well and the quality of the carved jade will be high. However, it is impossible for a jade carver to maintain the same state all the time when carving jade.
"Brother Chen, would you like to take a look at this first?"
Perhaps seeing Chen Ran's doubts, Fatty Chang handed Chen Ran a document.
Although Chen Ran was a little strange, he took it over and took a look. At this glance, he was startled, but then he suddenly understood.
"Brother Chen, do you know this kind of jade pendant?" Seeing Chen Ran's expression, Chang Fatty was surprised. Even he had never heard of this kind of jade pendant, and neither did the jade carvers in his company.
Having said that, looking at Chen Ran's expression, he seemed to know.
"Brother Chang, this is a jade pendant, right?" Hearing Fatty Chang's question, Chen Ran nodded. He really knew a thing or two about this kind of jade pendant.
Wearing jade pendants is very common in our country, especially in ancient times. The ruling class in ancient times all wore jade pendants. Even in most dynasties, wearing jade pendants was a must. Because the ruling class was highly hierarchical, wearing jade pendants was recorded in the legal policy.
It means etiquette, that is to say, if you travel without wearing a jade pendant, it is unethical and illegal. In serious cases, you will be beheaded.
The jade pendants include full jade pendants, group pendants and decorative jade pendants.
The most magical and mysterious jade pendant is naturally the Quan Pei. The Quan Pei is a very complicated jade pendant. In ancient times, only kings could wear such a jade pendant. It was usually worn during sacrifices and was specifically used for sacrificial rituals.
Come to worship those from all over the world.
Quanpei is a combination of Heng, Huang, Ju, Yu, Chongya, etc. Many scholars since the Song Dynasty have conducted textual research and speculation on the combination method. Since the Pei system has been lost for more than two thousand years, it is still difficult to make a conclusion.
There are only three full-length jade pendants unearthed so far. One is hidden in the Freer Museum of Art in the United States. It comes from Jincun, the capital of Huadu. It is about 42 centimeters in length and is a jade pendant for ladies dancing with a gold chain. It has a gold chain that runs through the jade dancers and
Huang, Guan, Chongya and other ornaments are composed of ornaments. The two dancers have short hair covering their foreheads, and they have combs on their temples. Their clothes are long and fall to the ground, and they each raise a sleeve on their heads to dance. The Chongya is in the shape of a double dragon, and the ends of the pendants are
Hanging dragon-shaped double huangs, this pendant can be hung from the neck to the chest.
This full-piece was worn by women. Two pieces of the Warring States full-piece were unearthed in Huixian County, Central Plains. There are two hoons hanging on the left and right, a huang hanging under the left and right hoons, and a punching tooth hanging directly from the hoon in the center.
, hanging between Heng and Huang.
These three pieces of turban were identified as tenghe, but in fact, it is just a guess, because the three pieces of tenghe do not conform to the shape of the tenghe recorded in classical literature.
In other words, so far, no one has seen what Quan Pei looks like. Everything is still an unsolved mystery and can only be inferred based on records.
In addition to the full pendant, there are also group pendants. The group pendant is to combine several jade pendants together. There are more group pendants unearthed, but the group pendants are usually hung on leather belts. There are no documented records on how to hang them.
Not specific.
Needless to say, decorative jade pendants. Today’s jade pendants are generally decorative jade pendants. Decorative jade pendants include zodiac-shaped jade pendants, such as human pattern pendants, dragon pattern pendants, bird pattern pendants, animal pattern pendants, etc. The most exquisite ones are
It is a jade pendant with a hollow ring and a clasp.
The jade pendant in front of me is a group pendant. To be specific, it is also called dismantling jade, or grouping jade.
What is disassembly of jade? Let’s not talk about group pendants, that is, several pieces of group pendants are combined together, and dismantling jade is one of the group pendants. It is a kind of trick, that is, it is originally a group pendant, but
If you take it apart from the middle or a certain dividing line, it becomes two jade pendants or three jade pendants or even more. What's more important is that whether they are two or three jade pendants, they are exactly the same, but when combined together, they look different.
It's a jade pendant, and it doesn't look superfluous at all. It's like taking apart a Rubik's cube and it turns out to be small squares. When put together, it's like a big square. Relatively speaking, it's naturally more difficult to take apart a jade pendant.
, because after disassembling jade, the jade pendant, whether it is taken apart or the jade pendant put together, is not a small square grid. If it is just a small square grid, is it still called a jade pendant?
The jade pendant after being disassembled has a shape and pattern, but the jade pendant put together has another shape and pattern. Of course, dismantling the jade pendant is not simply cutting a piece of jade pendant from the middle, that is, the sun and moon unite.
To be precise, the combination of the sun and the moon can be regarded as jade disassembly, but it is only the simplest jade disassembly, and there is no skill at all. In real jade disassembly, whether they are disassembled or combined, the jade pendant is a complete jade pendant.
, and both the artistic conception and form are different.
This kind of jade pendant is also called machine jade. Of course, very few people call it this way. It is just a description. It is said that the origin of the jade pendant is that it was carved according to a certain mechanism in the Warring States Period.
This kind of dismantling of jade is just a trick, and it was not very popular in ancient times, because in ancient times, jade was not worn because of its preciousness, but because of its character, that is, a gentleman is as gentle as jade, and what he pays attention to is the way of a gentleman, and this kind of dismantling is
Undoubtedly, jade is the result of a strange family and is not the work of a gentleman, so there are relatively few people who know about it, let alone those who know about it in modern times. Chen Ran knew that this kind of jade pendant was heard from Yan Ruyu, and he followed Yan Ruyu at that time.
During a trip to the black market, Yan Ruyu told him about this kind of jade pendant when she told him about the strange jade. So when Fatty Chang showed him the drawings, he knew that this was a kind of jade dismantling, or
It is a kind of composite jade. Accordingly, we also know the reason why other jade carvers cannot carve the same jade pendant, because other jade carvers may be able to imitate it, and even the artistic conception of the imitation is not much different, but the two
If they are combined, the pattern formed may not be the pattern on the drawing.
Just like the jade pendant in front of him, if you just look at this jade pendant, it looks like a picture of a white-headed bird playing with peonies, but the pattern drawn on the drawing that Fatty Chang handed him is a picture of a family full of descendants.
The single jade pendant is a white-headed bird playing with peonies. Needless to say, the artistic conception of this picture is usually to wish newlyweds a hundred years of love and a happy life together. This is an engagement jade pendant. If you are not married yet, marriage means a new couple.
It's a perfect fit.
The wedding of the newlyweds means that two jade pendants are combined. The jade pendants after the two jade pendants are combined are exactly like a picture of a family full of descendants. The picture of a full family of descendants shows both the love of a white-headed bird and the family full of descendants.
Before, during, and after the combination, this is undoubtedly the right time. The design is extremely clever. But if you take apart the two jade pendants that are joined together, they are two complete jade pendants. You can only see one of them separately.
As for a jade pendant, you can't tell that it is a jade pendant, so when he first saw the jade pendant, Chen Ran didn't notice it.
"Yes, brother Chen is right. This kind of jade pendant is a jade pendant. I am indeed an expert in our industry. I have even studied this kind of jade pendant. If someone else hadn't come to visit me, I really wouldn't have done it."
I know there is such a jade pendant, how about it, brother, are you sure you can get it?" Hearing Chen Ran say that this kind of jade pendant is a jade pendant, Chang Fatty immediately nodded happily, although he didn't know whether Chen Ran could carve it.
But at least he was much better than other jade carvers. This undoubtedly gave him a little more hope for Chen Ran. He was anxious and couldn't wait to ask.
Seeing Fatty Chang staring at him tightly, Chen Ran smiled bitterly. He had only heard about this kind of jade pendant. He had never even seen it. How could he carve it out? You must know that there are many things in it.
Technically, it is like an inconspicuous dot on a piece of jade pendant. On a single piece, it may be just an ordinary dot, very inconspicuous, but when two jade pendants are combined, it may be the eyes of a person or animal. The eyes and the
The points are naturally different. The eyes must be prominent and lively. But when this point is alone on a jade pendant, the light of this point must be covered up. How to design it is up to you to figure out. This is just one point.
The eyes are relatively simple, but the others are more complicated. It is not just a matter of imitating one of the jade pendants. Even if the imitation is exactly the same on the surface, after combining it, it may be a different pattern.
Therefore, it is extremely difficult to carve out the same pattern and combine it into a picture of descendants. I am afraid that only the jade carver who carved this jade pendant can carve it out, because the code in it is only the jade carving.
Only the teacher himself knows.
"Let's do this, Brother Chang. I'll give it a try. I'm not sure if I can carve it out. Can I give you the answer tomorrow morning? What do you think?" To be honest, Chen Ran didn't like this kind of carving.
His hands were itching. Although he had not been engaged in jade carving for a while, he had been doing it for more than a year before this. As a jade carver, when he encountered this kind of jade pendant, he naturally wanted to study it.
