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Chinese Dragon Chop
Hand-Carved from natural Jade
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One of a kind item
handcrafted in China
The chop is appx. 4 inches tall.
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Here is that beautiful unique gift
for the discriminating person.
This beautiful chop, imported from China,
is delicately hand-carved from
Natural Chinese Jade.
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The chop comes in a lovely handcrafted box,
lined inside with red silk
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This is an item that would be lovely on anyone's desk.
It is a beautifully decorative and distinctive artwork.
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Chinese Chops
Chinese chops are an age-old method of signing one's name, be it an official document, a piece of art, or a note to a friend.
They have been used on Chinese paintings and elsewhere since the Sung dynasty and play an extremely important role in the lives of the Chinese up to the present day. A chop mark is still required for a document to be legally binding. Chops, which were a forerunner to the invention of printing, are engraved by hand, and stamped onto a painting or document. Chops are generally made of jade into which an elaborate sculpture is often carved. Chop marks contribute to the visual appeal of the painting but chop marks themselves also constitute an independent category in fine arts. Throughout most of the Far East classes devoted to this craft are held in colleges and university departments.
Many foreign businessmen who are so used to signing their names in a contract found with astonishment that their Chinese counterparts preferred to use seals. To the Chinese, a seal was for many centuries a symbol of power. The emperor's seal was called Xi, and it gave authority to all his inferiors, and governments at different levels all issued orders endorsed with official seals. In other words, the seals stood for different levels of government and their corresponding powers.
The art of seal-engraving can be traced back to more than 3,000 years to the Yin Dynasty when the cutting of inscriptions on tortoise shells were the only way people's ideas could be recorded. It developed rapidly in the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC) when people engraved their names on utensils and documents to claim ownership or for verification in social contacts.
Wen Peng (1489-1573), the son of Wen Zhengming, a famous Ming Dynasty calligrapher and painter, is known as the "father of seal engraving art". But seal engraving really came to age only in the 19th century when a group of famous engravers came to the fore.
As we all know, traditional Chinese painting is a harmonious combination in the same picture of the arts of painting, calligraphy with engraving skills and the art of the arranging Chinese characters into imaginative patterns in a very limited space. A master seal engraver must be able to write different styles of the Chinese scripts and arrange all the characters in a perfect balance. Like a master calligrapher, sometimes, he needs to exaggerate the thickness or thinness of a stroke, elaborately straighten or curve it, or even deliberately deform an ideogram to create an artistic effect.
Nowadays, seals are still widely used, and the art of seal engraving has become more, not less, popular than ever before. More noteworthy is that many foreigners are now able to appreciate this art form, which for a long time has been considered uniquely Chinese.
Chinese Dragon Symbology
The Chinese dragon is a yang creature associated with heaven,
the emperor and justice, and imbued with the qualities of loyalty, courage and strength.
The most recent Chinese Year of the Dragon started on 5th February 2000, the Chinese lunar year 4698. The Chinese calendar has sixty cycles and this year was the year of the golden dragon. A Chinese dragon year can often be a challenging year in which aware and thoughtful people can be very successful.
It has long been believed that the Chinese dragon has the power to burst the clouds and bring down the rain. As water symbolizes wealth the dragon is understood to attract wealth - but one must be able to turn the challenges that the dragon brings into advantages.
In China the dragon is known as the ruler of spring that positively influences natural growth. In the area of wealth the same principle applies and so wealth will not be achieved in a dragon year if one's motivation is greed. A balanced attitude towards life is required.
The influence of a Chinese dragon artifact is the successful overcoming of difficulties and the artwork itself a reminder that we can win through difficult situations if we accept them as challenges instead of obstacles.
Even though depicted without wings on a Chinese painting the Chinese dragon is believed to fly and is usually painted against the clouds and the sun or moon.
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