The news soon reached the capital, and Emperor Qianlong was overjoyed when he heard about it. He decided to carve this rare treasure into a rare treasure.
Gan Long likes calligraphy and painting. He couldn't put it down, but because of the age, the painting was damaged and faded. After 60 years old, Qianlong had the idea of comparing himself to Dayu, so he decided to carve this extra-large jade into a map of Dayu's water control. On the one hand, it was to celebrate Dayu's great achievements in water control, on the other hand, it was also to show his outstanding achievements in imitating his predecessors, so as to make himself famous through the ages.
"Dayu Water Control" Yushan project is huge, time-consuming and labor-intensive. It took more than three years for jade samples to be transported from Xinjiang to Beijing. In the palace, four patterns were drawn according to the front, back, left and right positions of Yushan Mountain, and then made into wax samples, which were sent to Qianlong for reading and approval, and then sent to Yangzhou. Worried about the hot weather in Yangzhou, the wax sample was melted for a long time and carved into wood samples according to the wax sample, which was made by Su Yang craftsmen for six years.
Yu Shan is 224 cm high, 96 cm wide, 60 cm high and weighs 5350 kg. This is the largest jade carving in the world. Jade Mountain is placed on a bronze seat inlaid with gold wire and carefully carved with precious blue and white flowers and Hetian jade. The glittering and translucent luster of blue and white jade matches with the antique bronze base, which is more elegant and interesting.
The whole jade is carved into a peak shape, just like a mountain standing in the Yellow River. There are many kinds of subjects carved on Yushan Mountain, including peaks, streams, waterfalls and figures. Craftsmen skillfully combine these themes with the original shape of materials, and adopt realistic grounding and prominent technology. I saw mountains and mountains, towering cliffs, pines and cypresses, and crowds of water control troops gathered between the cliffs. They either cut mountains and chisel stones, or carry earth and stones.
Among the rock diggers, you can see the figure of Dayu, commander-in-chief of the water conservancy army. The works are vivid and vivid, which perfectly reproduces the spectacular scene of Dayu leading the people to open mountains and draw water.
On the top of the mountain, there is also a ghost carved golden god with several thors on it, which seems to explode on the mountain and is full of romance.
When Yushan arrived in Beijing, it was placed in a selected place, engraved and sealed, and it took another two years of hard work to get it done. The front is engraved with the generous seal of "Five Blessingg Five Dynasties Temple Treasure", and the back is engraved with "Bagua Treasure". There are long royal poems and comments below, which shows how proud and cherished Ganlong is of this work and regards it as a summary of his life.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were many large-scale ornamental "Yushan" jade articles, which were designed and made based on landscape paintings and local materials. Its workmanship is rigorous and meticulous. For example, in Lady Tongyin, the author skillfully carved dense trees, rockeries, stone tables and benches by using the white and red colors of jade, which is very poetic in the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.