Chinese People love jade jewelry is known all over the world.You will find many Chinese People wear Jade Jewelry such as jade ring,jade bangle,jade bracelet and other jade pendant.If you come to Chinese People's home you will find many family have carved jade articles put in home.so why Chinese People love jade jewelry so much?
The following is one general expaination
The Chinese love jade because of not only its beauty, but also more importantly its culture, meaning and humanity, as Confucius said there are 11 De (virtue) in jade.
The wise have likened jade to virtue. For them, its polish and brilliancy represent the whole of purity; its perfect compactness and extreme hardness represent the sureness of intelligence; its angles, which do not cut, although they seem sharp, represent justice; the pure and prolonged sound, which it gives forth when one strikes it, represents music. Its color represents loyalty; its interior flaws, always showing themselves through the transparency, call to mind sincerity; its iridescent brightness represents heaven; its admirable substance, born of mountain and of water, represents the earth. Used alone without ornamentation it represents chastity. The price that the entire world attaches to it represents the truth.
To support these comparisons, the Book of Verse says: "When I think of a wise man, his merits appear to be like Jade.
One old Chinese saying goes "Gold has a value; jade is invaluable." From that you will sense how important jade jewelry is in Chinese People's eye.
The following is one general expaination
The Chinese love jade because of not only its beauty, but also more importantly its culture, meaning and humanity, as Confucius said there are 11 De (virtue) in jade.
The wise have likened jade to virtue. For them, its polish and brilliancy represent the whole of purity; its perfect compactness and extreme hardness represent the sureness of intelligence; its angles, which do not cut, although they seem sharp, represent justice; the pure and prolonged sound, which it gives forth when one strikes it, represents music. Its color represents loyalty; its interior flaws, always showing themselves through the transparency, call to mind sincerity; its iridescent brightness represents heaven; its admirable substance, born of mountain and of water, represents the earth. Used alone without ornamentation it represents chastity. The price that the entire world attaches to it represents the truth.
To support these comparisons, the Book of Verse says: "When I think of a wise man, his merits appear to be like Jade.
One old Chinese saying goes "Gold has a value; jade is invaluable." From that you will sense how important jade jewelry is in Chinese People's eye.
