Lock culture and technology

Chinese jade carvings have a history of at least 7,000 years. Jade carving varieties, styles, and carvings have their own characteristics.

All kinds of jade locks are not large in them, but they are widely used and welcomed by the people as a kind of auspicious body protection and evil spirits. Here to introduce some of the Ming and Qing jade locks.

Jade locks are plain, with one-sided or double-sided patterns. There are reliefs and openwork. The shape has a square shape, a rectangular shape, an elliptical shape, and a peach shape. In order to be easy to carry, it is generally no more than 10 cm long and no more than 1 cm thick.

There are words in the ornamentation, and the engraved auspicious words are generally "long life and wealth", "golden jade full house", "fushou long", "hehehe", "shoutong sun and moon", "long life longevity", "fushou double", "both "Shou Yongchang", "such as the constant of the month", "three guarantees nine", "Wandai Rongfeng", "Golden Jade Rich", "Yutang Fugui" and other words.

Patterns are generally dragons, phoenixes, children, flowers, ganoderma lucidum, bats, peaches, lotuses, Ruyi and so on. The landscape figures are freely decorated with jade locks, which belong to the decorative works that Su Zu craftsmen liked since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the third generation of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, influenced by the paintings of literati, a large number of landscapes, figures, pines, bamboos, and plums were recommended by the literati in the jade ornamentation.

Jade lock jade is mainly white jade, a few are jasper, most of the white jade belongs to Hetian jade in Xinjiang, the most precious is the white fat white jade, the color is white and flawless, crystal clear.

Jade lock is a form of 100 locks. Hundreds of locks are also called "long life locks (suspension)". The family wants to pray for the good fortune of children, grow up healthily, and hang hundreds of locks for children. This is a kind of child-raising customs of the Han people, which was widely circulated after the Qing Dynasty. The easiest way is to use a red thread to string the copper coins and hang them around the child's neck. The most common is the use of gold, silver to make a lock-shaped sheet, hanging around the neck. Chinese people think that people have souls. Children from birth to 12 years old, the soul is not long, lack of self-protection ability, should not be scared, so special protection is needed. The hundred locks are the best of the town. As one of the forms of the hundred locks, the jade lock has the same function. This is the case of Jia Baoyu’s “Tongling Baoyu” in The Dream of Red Mansions.

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