K004. A Jade Pendant of the Swimming Turtle Family

K004. A Jade Pendant of the Swimming Turtle Family (Song Dynasty, AD 960-1279)                          Length: 5.63cm,Width: 3.33cm

On the lotus leaf, the high-recognized three-turtle family, the male tortoise is on the side, the turtle is close behind the female tortoise; the male and female tortoises are all engraved with a hexagonal armor. This adult Peugeot, the turtle of the one-child turtle is still not formed, can prove its genus Children, it also shows that the craftsman's carefulness is also good!

In the Song Dynasty: the theme of the turtle on the lotus leaf is the meaning of joy and luck.  In the book of "Song Shu. Fu Ruizhi" saying:  "The Turtles are lucky animals, expressing the conduct of the emperor is good. The fishing and hunting mountains and rivers, from time to time. Five colors are vivid, the three hundred years old turtle swimming on the leaves." The leaves are lotus leaves.

This device is in line with this theme. Therefore, the  theme of  "swimming /  playing turtle  (Guiyou) "  is used to  bless and praise the emperor".  The embossed under the lotus leaf has a lotus leaf stem to make the device more complete.

After the Song Dynasty, the work with the theme of "Gui Gui" was hard to find again, and it seems to have been lost. The colour of the whole body is like a pig liver, it is still lustrous, and all kinds of factors are hard to come by, and it is hard to see!