从玉石到瓷器的造物路径

From White Jade to “china”: The Creation Path of Chinese Civilization

在中国文化原型基因中,玉石文化从野生状态的石头开始,经历了从劳动工具到国器象征、美学代表、道德转译的自身属性变迁。玉石不仅维系着先民生存的物质基础,更超越成为中华文明进程中的文化表征与精神信仰。作为原编码符号,玉石承载着中华文明的发生史与道器合一的观念史,在长久的转换中凝聚为深层的文化原型。玉石催生了与之相适应的美学认知和国家精神,激发出"近玉"与"尚玉"的瓷器造物思维,成功求解到贯通数千年的文脉基因。一个没有建构"传播体系"的文明是不可能长久持续的,正是透过从玉到瓷的造物认知变迁与审美实践,中华造物路径中的智慧与观念最终整合为文化理想与文明传播共享的路径。溯源玉与瓷关联的造物文化基因,有助于解读"玉成中国"造物思想中的德性目标,并探索其作为中华文明传承的规范性文本和"CHINA"编码与解码之间的意涵。

In the gene pool of Chinese cultural prototype,jade culture started from the wild stone and experienced the attribute changing process from labor tools, objects symbolizing the country, aesthetic depth, transformation and translation as morality. Jade not only maintains and relates the material basis of ancient people’s existence but also surpasses the cultural representation and spiritual belief in the process of Chinese civilization. As original coding symbol, jade bears the history of the occurrence of Chinese civilization and the conceptual history of the unity of"Dao"and objects, which has condensed into a deep cultural prototype in the long-term transformation. Stone tools have given birth to aesthetic cognition and national spirit that are compatible with them, stimulated the porcelain creation thinking of"similar to jade"and"advocating jade",and successfully solved the context gene that has been running through thousands of years. It is impossible for a civilization without a "communication system" to last for a long time. It is through the system of creating material civilization from jade to porcelain that we can understand the change of its concept identity and aesthetic practice. The wisdom and ideas in the path of Chinese creation are finally integrated into the path of cultural ideal and civilization spreading and sharing. Tracing the origin of the creative culture genes associated with jade wares and porcelain is helpful to interpret the highest goal of virtue in the creative thought of "Chinese civilization made by jade", and explore the meaning between its "CHINA" encoding and decoding as a normative text of Chinese civilization inheritance.