Appreciation on the Emerald Dragon Seal

Themes such as deity characters, animals, universities, landscapes, and flowers and so on are all contained while the common patterns based on these themes are dragon and phoenix, animals, plants, human features and other natural objects. The practices of performance can be summed as analogy, symbol, direct representation of words, symbolic meaning, guise of Chinese characters etc., which has been extended from six and seven thousand years ago to show the expectation for good wishes such as longevity, peace, happiness, and health.Dragon is the common theme in the jade carving industry. It was a sacred animal which had the ability to call for anything in nature and benefit all things in Chinese mythology, with the development of cultural prosperity; it became the supreme spiritual power, the emperors take themselves as the avatar of the noble creature, and most of their utensils are decorated with dragon. Finally it became the heritage and cohesion of culture after thousands of years, which has been the symbol Chinese nation and culture.The winged dragon is call Yinglong. According to the ancient Chinese ancient classics Shu Yi Ji, the dragon which is of five hundred years is ceratopsian and the one of thousands of years is Yinglong which can be regarded as the “essence” among dragons, thus it got a pair of wings. The first appearance about the dragon was in the era of Huang DI, ancient classics Shang Hai Ching and Shi Ji had recorded that war happened between the tribal of Huang Di and Chi You, the sacred dragon got the order from Emperor Huang Di to help against the other and then became the a hero by killing the Chi You. However, due to the huge consumption of energy, the dragon lost the ability to fly back to the heaven and came to reside in the South hill luster. Later it became the hero of Yu due to its achievement of managing floods.There are many boutiques among the emerald products with the theme of dragon, but not much for category with wings such as Yinglong. With mighty shape, dragon of the kind is imbued with a pair of wings, scaly body, spine ridge, large and long heads, small nose, eyes and ears, big orbital, high eyebrow, sharp mouth and teeth, bulging forehead, thin neck, big belly, long and sharp tail, strong limbs, which can be regarded as qualified as a good body to take part in combat. When it comes to dragon and emerald which are combined in the seal, exquisite crafts can be appreciated. With big modeling, large and full body, fine texture, materials the emerald Yinglong Seal makes the itself more completed and solid by adopting realistic approach to carve and polish. With distinguished scales covers the whole body, lines of the edges is depicted clearly, it looks like that every scale is trembling slightly with the breathe of the body, the carving crafts is excellent enough to let us see the skin and texture very clear. Then comes the beard which is processed particularly meticulous, lines are smooth enough that they give the illusion they can swinging with the light wind, similarly, each feathers are distinguished to manifest the full-fledged wings. Strong and powerful, the dragon is seemed to fly high at once with a pair of claws buckled on the ground tightly. A pair of round eyes is brimming with radiating vigor staring at the front eagerly and handsomely. The two large nostrils are painting and give out an impression of readying for the incoming future. The most brilliant point is that a Ruyi is within the mouth and is highlighted by green emerald, which fully shows the auspicious meaning at once.With beautiful and extraordinary momentum, skilled carving technologies, seal of the kind can be the superb boutique when compared with similar items. With exalted, heroic, noble and ability to gain fortune while ward off evils, benefit all things, the dragon is the symbol of punishing evils and bright auspicious spirits in both the Chinese ancient mythology and the bottom of Chinese people.