A025 Archaic Jade Fish (Hongshan Culture)

A025 Archaic Jade Fish (Hongshan Culture) Height: 5.53cm; Width: 2.96cm

 The fish is made from jade, which was first seen in the Hongshan culture. It flourished in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and it was small in the early days and gradually enlarged in the later period.

• Hongshan culture: The jade fish is extremely rare. This jade fish can be a masterpiece more than 5,000 years ago. It is a round sculpture, a small jade, with a small hole  the mouth to the lower jaw, and a slightly larger perforation in the tail. No fins, this is the characteristics of the Neolithic Age.
• Liangzhu Culture: This jade fish was also unearthed about 4,000 years ago. The jade fish also has no fins, but it is not round, and the body is slightly flat, but there are still features of the inscribed face.
• Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty: The various forms of jade fish ornaments that have been exhibited and collected from the unearthed and global museums during this period are flat or slab-shaped, and there are no round jade fish found, all of which are carved with fish. The fins are completely different from the Neolithic Age.
• Warring States and future generations: Needless to say, the more progress and realism, the more good signs!This jade fish is carved more than 5,000 years.

The jade is mellow, although there is no fin, there is still a realistic taste, simple and live; and the express way of  its two  fish eyes is the characteristic of the Neolithic Age.  It's eyes was engraved with the pipe drilla into the semicircle and expressed as an eye.  In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the technique of tube drilling seems to have been lost, and it was not used until the Warring States. This is the consensus of the archaeological community!  Of course, the Warring States also have a simple approximation, but fish sculptures can never be without fins that time!

We don't want to exaggerate the treasures that are unparalleled in the world! But we must respect the hard work of the ancestors and deeply admire! It’s really hard to see, and I have to let the world see it!