Chinese people like jade, and Westerners like diamonds. What's the tricky thing?

Since ancient times, jewelry has been a longing for and pursued in both the East and the West. After people realize their survival needs, they need to be respected by others, that is, there will be a need for self-respect, and jewelry can express this symbolic demand very well. The Eastern and Western cultures are very different, and this is also reflected in jewelry. Then we will briefly talk about these differences from different aspects.

The first is to distinguish between materials. On the selection of jewellery, Chinese people prefer jade, Hetian jade, turquoise and Nanhong, etc. These are also important parts of our Chinese jade culture; Westerners pay more attention to superficial things, like flash Bright, dazzling, straightforward, like diamonds, red sapphires, emeralds, cat eyes, sea sapphire, and the recent rise of Tanzan, Topa, etc., these are all Westerners like, then each Take a look at the most representative materials.

The diamond that is popular in the West is a single crystal mineral. It is composed of carbon. In the earth, because of the high temperature and high pressure, the arrangement and combination of elements are changed. In the tetrahedron, the finished product is usually cut by a crystal. The cherishment of the diamond is not in the element itself, but in the way that the element is rearranged. Diamonds are also the hardest substance in nature to be known by humans. If diamonds and other jewels are placed together, the diamonds will be unscathed, and other jewels will be scratched. This is also the characteristic of diamonds.

Diamond is a single mineral, its ç‘•ç–µ will be very obvious, so GIA has given four parameters, which is known as 4c, which has a clarity in the 4c, the best clarity can not see the naked eye At this point, only the ten times of the magnifying glass can be seen under the magnifying glass. As the standard of 4c, the best is innocent. The classification of the diamond enamel is also classified, which is very clear and very detailed internationally.

The jadeite and Hetian jade that the Orientals like are composed of countless tiny mineral particles, belonging to the aggregate. The specific formation process of jade and hetian jade is not much, but they are all composed of many crystals. When gathered together, a large piece of material is formed, which is different in material properties.

Diamonds have a very clear standard in the world in order to set the price, but there is no jade. We are talking about glass, ice, glutinous, bean, etc., but only a range. A range, there is currently no such standard.

For example, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, etc., which have high hardness but poor toughness, cut diamonds into different shapes in order to conform to the different characteristics of rough diamonds. Different diamond roughs have different crystal structures and optical effects. The shape design of the diamond must firstly dissect the rough diamonds and the original stone sarcophagus according to the cleavage, clarity and weight of the rough diamonds, and maximize the weight of the original stone.

Although jade is not as hard as diamonds, jade and Hetian jade have very strong toughness. They can be processed into various shapes. We have seen egg noodles, bracelets, pendants and ornaments made of jade, but diamonds are only cut. There are almost no other forms of expression in small crystals.

The cultural differences between the East and the West are also reflected in the theme of jewelry. For jewellery, the Orientals prefer the traditional themes such as dragon and phoenix, ganoderma lucidum and peony; or some Guanyin with religious beliefs, Buddha and Tara, or some expressions with auspicious meanings. The way, for example, the leaves are stressful, the golden leaves and the leaves are famous, the beans are meant to be safe and so on.

But the West uses more styling in the jewellery theme, such as the lion's victory, the bravery; or the Bulgari snake-shaped bracelet, which is more straightforward and is directly inlaid with diamonds. It allows you to see at any angle that it is very shiny and very dazzling. It can be found at a glance. It makes people know that he is wearing a jewelry made of diamonds.

The reason why the gemstone culture of the East and the West has such a big gap can basically be attributed to the difference in the way of thinking. For example, Chinese people like to stand at the height of life to consider problems, to jump in reality, to think about the meaning of life, to express between people and between people and nature, and to do more thinking; Pay attention to logical relations, logical and rational, so we say that Chinese people belong to abstraction or perceptual thinking. The West starts from the material world itself and then seeks the source of the problem.

On the left is the jade, which is a very common Buddha's leaf and Guanyin. The meaning of these expressions is very auspicious. I hope that we can be blessed by the gods, hope that we will become famous overnight; and the ruby ​​sapphires and yellow diamonds on the right side give people The visual impact is flash, which is a striking performance, that is, a self, a direct feeling for the individual.

The general character of Westerners is more independent and extroverted, and some are still very strong. Their culture is basically in a competitive atmosphere, that is, the relationship between people is a kind of competition; and the performance of Chinese people is More gregarious, introverted, everyone is more willing to live in harmony, not tit for tat.

The bracelet in this picture is the work of the Italian brand Bucchiati, a family of centuries-old jewellery made for the Italian royal family; the following jade bracelet is very familiar to us, from At the time when the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty began, everyone liked jade, and one of his favorite expressions was to put it into a bracelet and put it on his hand. In the conventional impression, diamonds are very hard, very cold feeling; jade is soft, feminine, and sheep fat jade is also warm and delicate, because Westerners are more disciplined, and Orientals are more human.

The most beautiful place of diamonds is that under a strong light, from different angles, you can see that it produces colorful brilliance. This is the feeling that the West likes. He has an aggressive outward character. For the jade, that A kind of green with vitality is the embodiment of a character that is implicit in our introversion.

The Chinese are still relatively traditional, because thousands of years of history are feudal societies. Basically, it belongs to a character of agricultural civilization, so the Chinese will pay more attention to rational morality and seek stability and common ground. "Harmony is noble, and tolerance is high" is our principle of doing things.

The West is basically a marine civilization. They like to explore abroad. It is a more outward-looking civilization. For example, Columbus voyages to discover the New World; for example, the later industrial revolution; Westerners have a very strong spirit of struggle and this kind of maintenance for their own interests, the principle of independent freedom and equality, we call them the character of industrial civilization.

Diamonds have four main indicators of color, clarity, cut and weight.

The first is the color. The color grading of the diamond starts from d, and then goes down according to the letters. In terms of colored diamonds, there are yellow diamonds, blue diamonds, pink diamonds, and green diamonds. Compared to our jade, there are green and yellow colors. Red, colorless, purple, etc., and the green of jade can be divided into green, sky blue green, which is the big boundary, subdivided into emperor green, emerald green, green seedling green, apple green and so on.

Followed by clarity, diamonds are divided into a degree of clarity such as FL, IF, VVS, VS, SL. If you have jade, you can have glass, ice, glutinous and bean varieties.

There is also a cut, for the diamond color treasure, the good cut trade union makes this single crystal gemstone more shiny, which is commonly known as the fire, this is an important evaluation of the quality parameters of a single crystal gem; for jade and Hetian jade It is said that cutting is the carving technique of each person. Good cutting is a good carving. For example, Wang Chaoyang, Li Renping, Lu Kui, Liu Dong, Wang Xinlan, Wang Guoqing, Cui Lei, Fan Junmin Teacher, teacher Lu Mubai, etc. They are representatives of good carvings.

The other one is the size, that is, the weight. Of course, the large jade egg noodles are more expensive than the small ones. The larger ones are more expensive than the small ones. If the weight is higher in the case of the same quality, the pendants are also In this way, we like the thick diamonds that we like big carats.

In fact, whether it is the emerald of the East or the Hetian jade, and the diamond colored gemstones of the West are a kind of subtle contrast and harmony. It is very interesting. If they are used properly, they will let us The work has a stronger vitality.

I think that every country or every nation does not want its traditional culture to be in a position of loneliness. It also needs to go abroad. It also wants to be recognized by the world. Now there are many jewelry designs with Chinese elements. Very popular with high-end people in Western society.

The differences between different cultures are rooted in the historical background of different ethnic groups and their differences in aesthetics. This is gradually formed in the precipitation of social development history. It should be regarded as an eternal cultural phenomenon. We should understand the difference. The ethnic background, the different regions, the cultural background knowledge of different countries, and the local customs and habits, nowadays, is an information society, including the information transmission of the network is very fast, the whole earth has been in the era of rapid development of this information. It is getting smaller and smaller, and there are more and more exchanges between different cultural backgrounds and different ethnic groups. So understand the different cultural differences between the East and the West, improve their cultural adaptability, and apply it to us. Jewelry should be of great importance to us jewelers.

Learning the differences between Chinese and Western cultures is conducive to a rational change in the expression of the oriental sculpture art that exists in the present. It is not only the harmony of the East but also the entertainment culture of the West. The sparks can be quite dazzling. There are already some jade carving masters who are drawing on some Western cultures and elements to apply Western sculpture art to traditional jade carvings.

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