Hetian jade prices rise faster

From ancient times to the present, Hetian Yu can be regarded as an “evergreen tree” in the collectors’ community. In the rapid rise of the domestic art market, Hetian Yu’s performance has been extremely alarming. The impact of the environment, but overall the rate of price increase is still very fast. In addition, in order to protect the increasingly scarce mineral resources, the country began to implement the policy of restricting mining in the first two years, which once again led to a dramatic increase in the jade market.

In China, the oldest and most influential varieties of jade are used. Hetian jade can be said to be synonymous with high-grade jade in China, and the unique jade culture is also a unique symbol of our traditional Chinese culture. In recent years, with the rise of the domestic art market, the rising price of Hetian jade and the frequent turnover records on the auction market have continuously stimulated the nerves of investors. Hetian jade collector team has begun to grow geometrically.

With the development of social science and technology, jade craftsmanship is constantly improving. Using many advanced technologies combined with the aesthetic features of modern people, our modern craftsmen have created a number of jade carving artworks that the ancients could not create. This brings us the perfect experience for our vast jade lovers, while also greatly enriching China’s traditional jade culture.

We all know that the Ming and Qing dynasties were a flourishing period for the development of jade crafts in China. Nowadays, most of the jade that we saw at auctions or museums came from that period. The early Qingtian Hetian Baiyu jade we see today is impeccable in terms of craftsmanship, but it is a certain damage in the ointment, but on the other hand it also confirms the long history of this collection, so it is still worthwhile. Collectible.

Jade texture is dense and delicate, not easily affected by temperature, humidity, dust, light and other factors, so it is relatively easy to save, but we know that although jade is hard, but it is very brittle, so whether we wear Jade jewelry, or to carry out jade collections, must avoid bumps, and as we see this jade Hetian jade jade itself has been through hundreds of years, in the preservation of the more should pay more attention.

Simple and elegant

The artistic style of furniture in the Song Dynasty can be summarized as simple, natural, simple, and elegant. Its more distinctive artistic features are the simple beauty of Founder. The typical Song Dynasty home has a rose chair (back-like), a four-headed official hat chair, a circle chair, an ink landscape screen, a piano table, a drum pier, and a series of square straight tables, tables, and shelves.

The maturation time of the Song Dynasty furniture art style should be in the Southern Song Dynasty. At this time, the living style of high sitting has become more popular. Compared with the furniture of the Tang Dynasty, the furniture of the Song Dynasty was generally concise and refined, and the feeling of the line modeling was lean. Compared with the furniture of the Liao Dynasty, the furniture of the Song Dynasty was generally exquisite and rich. Specifically, compared with the previous furniture, the changes in the form and structure of Song Dynasty furniture are reflected in the following aspects:

In the Song Dynasty, there were two major systems of furniture with “waist” and “no waist” furniture, as well as a large shift from the box structure to the frame structure. The seat drawer of the chair developed from the “two-corner corner drawer” to “four "Gangjiao drawer", the side legs, framed panels and other technologies are also more mature. At the same time, the Song Dynasty also pursued the simple beauty of furniture lines, which was reflected in the combination of lines, lines, and feet, and the use of various lines and curves in decorative patterns to make the charm of the lines vividly presented. The beauty of the lines formed by the backs, the brains and the handrails of Song chair is also more natural and smooth, and it is in harmony with the overall shape.

Influencing future furniture design

The design art of the Song Dynasty had a profound influence on later generations. During this period, people's daily living activities developed from low to high, furniture has undergone major innovations, indoor furnishings have begun to change, and daily utensils have gradually moved to high-grade fixtures. Important changes have taken place in their forms and decorative parts. The furniture of the Song Dynasty, which carried the Song people's life, left a lot of design art resources for later generations. It is worthy of systematic and in-depth research.

However, for a long period of time, the depth and intensity of the research on the field of furniture in the Song Dynasty is far from that of the popular Ming and Qing furniture. There is less monograph on furniture research in the Song Dynasty. In fact, the study of furniture in the Song Dynasty was clear and positive for the history of furniture. Moreover, to further study Ming-style furniture also need to make great efforts to study its source - the Song Dynasty furniture, although the current research on Chinese traditional furniture represented by Wang Shizhen's "Ming-style Furniture Research" has yielded fruitful results. The people all know that Ming-style The outstanding achievements of furniture and its lofty position in the international design art stage, but often ignore the furniture of the Song Dynasty, and the concepts, styles, types, shapes, structures, decorations and other elements of the Ming-style furniture have long been reflected in the furniture of the Song Dynasty. .

The family of the Song Dynasty had the distinctions of royal furniture, literary furniture, folk furniture, and religious furniture. Its Chinese furniture had a greater influence on the later generations and became the representative of the furniture of the Song Dynasty. It changed the rich and rich features of the Tang Dynasty furniture as a whole, tending to Founder is concise, and it is oriented towards practicality and advocating concise roads. Therefore, the furniture of the Song Dynasty was mostly horizontal and vertical, simple and clear, and concentrated in the chair, table, table, rack and other varieties, of which the chair is quite representative. In the furniture of the Song Dynasty, the prevailing style of simplicity of Founder, the Dutch style school which plays an important role in the design of modernism is quite relevant. Some modernist design masters have a direct or indirect relationship with the furniture of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it is of long-term significance to study the furniture of the Song Dynasty and to explore the artistic resources contained in the Song Dynasty for enriching the contemporary design and deepening its cultural attributes.

The same as contemporary design

The art of design for thousands of years has continued. The simple and simple aesthetic concept advocated by the literati of the Song Dynasty and the resulting "structuralism of the Song Dynasty" in furniture have a coincidence with the functionalism launched by western designers in the context of industrialization. And in addition to furniture, there are many examples of interior and architecture.

For example, some masterpieces in the history of modern design, Dussberg's “Interior Design for Gymnasium” (1920s), and the “Schroeder House” (including interior design) developed on the basis of Mondrian's works. (1924), Corbusier's "New Spirit Hall" (1925), Mies "Savoy Villa" (1929) and "Vansworth House" (1951), etc. The structural and aesthetic features of the "straight structuralist" Song Zhongzheng, and it has shown a certain evolutionary relationship, and even some glass-walled modernist architecture, such as the Mies "Sigram Building" (1954-1958), Jiangsu Province The radio and television headquarters building (2009) also showed such structural and aesthetic traces. It can be seen that there are certain eternal ways in the millenium of design. The discovery of this ancient and modern coincidence is both a taste found in the study of the history of art and a responsibility for the interpretation of art and design in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Today's design pattern has been diversified. The situation that the former modern design dominated the world no longer exists. However, when contemporary designers think about how to combine the latest scientific and technological achievements with the design art, the wisdom of former wise men cannot be ignored, and the wisdom of Chinese forerunners whose civilization has never been interrupted cannot be underestimated.

In today's highly integrated world, inheriting and developing the fine art traditions inherited from the Song Dynasty since the Song Dynasty still have immeasurable practical significance. Therefore, researching the furniture of the Song Dynasty and mining the artistic resources contained in it not only has a great help in deepening the study of the furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also has important significance for enriching the contemporary design, deepening its cultural attributes, and designing a more eternal life art. .