2. Jade Cong is the most typical jade in Liangzhu. Yu Cong is almost a cylinder with an inner circle and an outer circle. The plexus is divided into several sections, the upper part is small and the lower part is small. The animal faces carved around the four corners have a strong three-dimensional effect.
Whether it is jade, jade cong or jade yue, the surface is carved with mysterious patterns. Under the lens of high magnification, people can see that it is a human figure, wearing a crest and a shirt, with a mouth, a nose and eyes. It looks like a heroic god of war. But from another perspective, it is a composite image of people and animals. The upper part is a majestic man of god, and the lower part is a beast with big eyes, fangs and bent claws. This pattern appears in almost all Liangzhu jade articles in many ways, and it is by no means a random depiction.
3. Liangzhu ancient jade is the essence of Liangzhu culture, and its quantity, variety and exquisite carving have reached the peak of prehistoric jade carving.
4. But what kind of tools do they use? Did they use lathe tools at that time? So far, it still puzzles archaeologists like a mystery, expecting to find the relevant production process information of jade cutting technology in those days.
Liangzhu jade contains many amphiboles. When unearthed, it is called chicken bone white, which is very soft, but it will harden in a few days. Therefore, in the era when there were no metal tools in ancient times, the ancients may have taken advantage of this feature and used some kind of potion to control the hardness of jade.