China's largest ever non-official exhibition of jade items
opened on Tuesday in Beijing, with some 300 rare ancient jade
artifacts on display.
A jade galloping dear, produced during the
Tang Dynasty (618-907), is displayed at China's largest
non-official exhibition of jade items. The show opened in Beijing
on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.
China News Services reports that the individual collections span
more than 6,000 years, from the Neolithic or New Stone Age around
4000 BC to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.
The exhibits feature items from Qijia Culture from northwest
China's Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, Hongshan Culture from
northeast China, and Liangchu Culture from the middle and lower
reaches of the Yangtze River.
The Ancient Jade Research Institute, organizer of the
exhibition, hopes to create a forum for academic exchanges through
displaying the individual collections.
A legendary animal sculpture from the Han
Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) is shown at China's largest
non-official exhibition of jade items which opened in Beijing on
Tuesday, October 9, 2007.
(CRI.cn October 10, 2007)
