Hetian jade is so hard, why is it called "soft jade"?
In the textbooks related to modern mineralogy, jade is divided into two categories: jadeite and nephrite. Jadeite is jadeite, and Hetian jade belongs to "soft jade". In this regard, no one has ever raised doubts. However, Hetian jade's hardness and jadeite are comparable. Why is one called 'soft jade' called 'hard jade'? China has not called Hetian jade a 'soft jade' tradition since ancient times. How did the name come from? "Soft jade" is actually the name of a foreigner. In 1846, the French mineralogist Demur named Hetian jade nephrite. Nephrite is just a mineralogical name like tremolite and has no cultural implications. But the word came to the Japanese - the "Gemstone" published by Suzuki Min in 1914 was translated into a name with some negative color - nephrite. Hetian jade is much harder than steel. If you think that Hetian Yu is soft, you can try it with your head. So why do Japanese people use "soft" to name something that is harder than steel? Some people will say that in fact, soft is a neutral word, there is no emotional color in it, and Hetian Yu's gentle and restrained temperament is indeed related to "soft". Is it really? Then, can we boast a gentle person called "soft person"? Ha ha. The "soft" word translated by the Japanese is really not a good name on Hetian jade, which is estimated by the Japanese. The reason why it is called is because the Japanese are very clear about what Hetian jade means for China, just as Japan uses "Zina" to call China. In the past, Japan used to refer to China as "Han", "Tang", "Song", "Ming", etc., but after the Sino-Japanese War, it began to use the word "Zina". It was not until the defeat of Japan in the Second World War that the word "Zina" was forced to withdraw from the official Japanese occasion, only for some Japanese right-wing anti-China and radical Taiwan independence supporters. Calling Hetian jade as "soft jade", they may be intentional. Jade culture is unique to the Chinese nation and a cornerstone of our civilization. There are no other nations and countries in the world that have this culture. It has a history of seven or eight thousand years. How many brilliant works have our sages made against Hetian jade? Discussion. Now, we really want to despise the cultural traditions of the seven or eight thousand years, and to move to a so-called convention "definition" that has abandoned the essence of jade culture and appeared for only one hundred years, and even regard it as "convention". Is this really appropriate? ? This is called arrogance, is this a violation of the convention? Boguan believes that the term "soft jade" is to be discussed. Therefore, in the previous catalogues of jade articles, the lots were not marked as "soft jade", but they were labeled as "Hetian jade" and "Hetian jade seed material" as accurately as possible, or according to the color mark, yellow, Green, ink jade and so on. The criterion for distinguishing jade quality is precisely the practice of Chinese people collecting jade for thousands of years. Because the concept of “conventional custom†is often the result of the precipitation of folk wisdom, it is also the essence of the most simple and true culture rooted in the hearts of the people. Dty/Fdy Brushed,Polyester Twisted Yarn Fdy/Dty,Fdy Yarn For Sale Stock,Fdy/Dty One Side Tricot Brush Shaoxing Huangdaopo Trade Co.,Ltd. , https://www.sxhdptrading.com
