"The shackles of Kunlun, the road of nine days, looking for the spiritual stone of the heavens and the earth", as the clouds in the song, for thousands of years, people in the south of the Taklimakan desert, the Kunlun Mountains, struggling for Hetian Meiyu.
Xinjiang's Qiemo County, located in the southern wilderness of Taklima, has an annual output of 500 tons of jade, accounting for more than 85% of the total output of Hetianshan. From Urumqi, the capital, it takes 500 kilometers to drive the first day. It passes through the Tianshan Mountains in Turpan and arrives in Korla. The next day, the Taklamakan Desert in South Vietnam, travels 700 kilometers until you see the Kunlun Snow Peak.
Xinjiang people often say "Hetian Meiyu, and the end is up." Luo Jianping, secretary general of the Qiemo County Jade and Stone Association, said that Hetian jade is mainly divided into seed materials and mountain materials. The seed material has the best texture, but based on their “original shapeâ€, it is only the cobblestone in the lower reaches of the Kunlun Mountains. Its size and shape limit its yield. The royal rituals such as jade and jade in the ancient courts are almost all made of mountain materials. The world-famous "Dazhi Water" Yushan is one of the finest.
Hetian County produces Hetian jade, which belongs to the mountain material. It has a large body shape and the heaviest original stone can reach dozens of tons. “The end of the jade body is the first choice for the carving of the country,†Luo Jianping said. In the 1980s, the “Five Elements Tower†carved by the end of the white jade was called the jade and the national treasure.
According to the Qiemo County Museum, more than 5,000 years ago, the ancestors of the end were collecting jade on the northern slope of Kunlun Mountain. They transported the jade here to the Central Plains and the west to the Central Asian Rivers. The "Jade Road" that traverses things. After thousands of years, Zhang Wei’s departure to the Western Region was along the way westward, making it a famous “Silk Roadâ€.
The end jade mines are all over 3,500 meters above sea level in the Kunlun Mountains, with snow all year round and inaccessible. Only from June to October each year is the jade period. In addition, the snow is closed and all jade mines are shut down.
"Take up the clouds in the sky and say goodbye to the old lady. We are the jade people in front of the ghost gate." The mountain songs of the jade workers sang the sinister and understanding of life in the past working environment: just a stone on the mountain, brought to the bottom of the mountain The value of the city's baby, "time is money" has the most intuitive interpretation here.
"Now the transportation is convenient and the technology is developed. The mining is very safe. But when I was a child, the workers were injured and disabled in the mountains." 65-year-old Zhang Yufu told reporters that he is the third generation of jade workers in the family, just as The elders firmly believe that jade can bring good luck to the children and grandchildren, and they have the name of "Yufu". Now he has been the owner of the jade shop, and the old man has also fulfilled the "inferiority of Yu Yu".
"Jade is not awkward, not a device." Yu Yu, is an uninterrupted business in the history of the county. The jade carving masters come from all corners of the country. Whether it is the Southern School or the Northern School, there are inheritance and development here.
Yang Jinduo, a 35-year-old jade carving master, has been working for 20 years with his ancestral skills. Eight years ago, his family moved from his hometown in Henan to Qiemo County. "The end of the jade is rich, and there are many employment support policies. This is the most important reason for us to come here." Yang Jinduo said.
A pair of old hands are full of knives, and a knives, Yang Jinduo shows the aesthetic appeal of the Chinese people. In the two-day Yuhua County Eighth Jade Culture Tourism Festival, which was held from October 14th to 15th, Yang Jinduo’s sculpture of a statue of Guanyin won the first prize of the Jade Carving Competition.
His work is only about 16 centimeters high, but it took more than half a year from design to sanding. "It takes two months for the duck to be finely carved, and a jade carving master can't get a few pieces in the end of the year." Yang Jinduo said.
In recent years, the market price has become mature and stable, and jade is no longer a "crazy stone." The sales of high-end jade are reduced, and the price is relatively conservative. "It's different from the past. Now the local tyrants will try their best to bargain." Luo Jianping said with a smile.
Yang Jinduo said that at present he mainly relies on the sale of a large number of jade pendants, earrings and other small accessories for profit, the Chinese people love jade, these small jewelry are cheap and affordable, the working class can afford it.
This year's Tiangong Awards Competition is about to begin. In the end of the county, many jade carving masters are as busy as Yang Jinduo. They show their finely crafted works and launch an impact on the highest podium in the domestic jade carving industry.
Yang Jinduo told reporters that he hopes that more people will learn about Xinjiang by jade and understand the people who are as pure as jade. He has decided to settle down in Xinjiang and pass the jade carving technique to his children.
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