A039 Hongshan Culture Human Eagle Combination Jade Carving

A039 Hongshan Culture Human Eagle Combination Jade Carving (Height: 12.43cm, Width: 7.45cm)

The loess is fresh, beautiful, glossy, simple and ancient, simple and natural, with round corners, all of which are the characteristics of the Neolithic age.            

Symbolic human head: two ears are made of convex circles, two noses are made of two holes, no eyes and mouth are carved, but it can still be felt as human head, which is a symbolic art.            

Eagle body: the upper part of the eagle wing is carved with diamond lines, and the lower part is carved with three convex chord lines; the two sides of the eagle abdomen are carved with diagonal lines; the lower part of the abdomen is V-shaped convex, and the lower part is the lower part of the rectangular image. The back is plain and there is a perforation of the trunk under the back and neck.

The Human Eagle Combination Jade Carving has a peculiar form, which is related to the totem of the cultural circle. Hongshan culture belongs to the totem culture circle of northeast birds, which should be represented by fierce eagles. It is a necessary deity for ancient people to worship primitive religion and witchcraft. For the worship, it makes an abnormal appearance in form, which makes people afraid and extremely adore. In ancient times, human beings were simple. Totem was a group system in the stage of hunting and collecting economy. Totem was the emblem of the group, the object of worship and the tool of terror. Each group has its own unique totem. The totem is adopted by some kind of animals and plants, which are believed to be the ancestors of the group, or have blood relationship with this kind of animals and plants. After the adoption, they not only share the same belief, but also adopt the same pattern for body decoration, daily utensils or residence cemeteries. Therefore, the totem of ancient Chinese people is extremely complex, which is the totem society, and later the clan society 。

For example, there are tiger totem clan in the Neolithic Age (the evidence of "Tiger Fang" by King Yin Shangwu Ding).
"Book of Songs. Mysterious Bird": "Destiny Mysterious Bird, born of the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty." It is clearly pointed out that the ancestors of the Shang clan were born by swallows, which is evidence that the businessmen worship bird totems. In the end, the "dragon" was revered in general, which formed the psychological foundation of the dragon worship in China for thousands of years.
This combination of human and eagle: It is precisely the Hongshan culture that was created on the basis of the Northeast Yiying Totem Cultural Circle. It is rough and simple, its carving is abstract , simple  and natural. Hongshan Cultural Jade: Polished the edges of the faintly protruding part and blurred them, carved out the traces, and looked seamlessly integrated. It seems to have only outlines, but it still has a lot of similarity. Yet another extremely unique style, combined with the above, reflects the pursuit of art by ancient ancestors and the devotion to the gods of heaven and earth. This device revealed all these concepts! The significance and value of its history and art are difficult to estimate!