This paper aims to elucidate the genetic mechanism of Chinese jade worship that arose in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, unveil the underlying historical truth of jade origination and transportation, and investigate the significance of white jade in shaping national ideology and material production by focusing on the mythical narrative of the Yellow Emperor eating the white jade cream recorded in The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Classic of Mountains and Seas exhibits a classic Chinese mythological style, characterised by a struggle between textual mastery and semiotic indeterminacy, fictional imagination and religious conservatism, aesthetic autonomy and embedded ideology, and aesthetic autonomy and embedded ideology.
Author(s) Details:
Juan Wu,
Faculty of Arts and Social Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CRLLE-V4/article/view/6165
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