The peach blossoms are in full bloom, the begonias are blooming, and the cherry blossoms are in full bloom until the spring rain spreads and the flowers fall colorfully, paving the pink flower road that arrives in April. In the museum, there is also a spring "planted" by the ancestors themselves, and the flowers here are in full bloom whether it is sunny or rainy.

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Spring in Gangnam is pink. After the plum blossoms, the cherry blossoms, apricots, peaches and pears bloom one after another, and the eyes are all pink clouds.

The small powder stove in the Nanjing Museum has recently become a top priority. It is Emperor Qianlong's favorite. The lid furnace is pink, the whole vessel is made of hibiscus stone, the whole body is covered with natural textures, the abdomen is carved with two groups of symmetrical cocktails and the head of the shop ringed ears, and the top of the lid is also carved with four small cockroaches. The overall color of the utensils is warm and uniform, the shape is simple, and it implies the spirit of beauty.

Collection of Nanjing Museum

Zhenjiang Museum also has a pink jade artifact, but it is a small powder bottle, the bottle body is also made of hibiscus stone, the texture of hibiscus stone is warm and delicate, the color is pink and soft, the bottle body is round, and the lines are smooth and beautiful. The bottle is carved with delicate patterns of flowers and birds, and details such as bird feathers and petals of flowers are vividly depicted.

These two sister utensils, condensing spring in jade, revealing a faint pink halo, like peach blossoms.

Collection of Zhenjiang Museum

Spring in Gangnam is green. The willows are green, and the spring water is rippling. The azure in the glaze on the utensils and the flowers between the porcelain patterns all overflow with the breath of spring.

The incense utensils unearthed from the underground palace of Changgan Tower in Nanjing Changgan Temple, glazed texture, transparent and smart, from the emerald green when the water is saturated, to the blue after drying, just like the spring color circulates in the smoke and rain and sunny space; The blue and white utensils unearthed from the ruins of Nanjing Dabao'en Temple, the center of the plate is painted with blue and white a flower basket, the mouth of the plate is decorated with floral patterns, the blue and white color is rich, and the flowers are densely layered, such as a hundred flowers to release life in the spring.

Nanjing Changgan Temple Changgan Tower Underground Excavated

The site of Nanjing Dabao'en Temple was unearthed

If it was in ancient times, when it was spring, a woman's head would be full of spring. The gold-inlaid treasure flower unearthed from the tomb of Zou in Qingyangming, Jiangyin, all kinds of flowers on it, are inlaid with gems in the center of the flower, and the flowers are dotted with small gold leaves. The bee-shaped golden pecking needle in the Nantong Museum is a pictographic work, and when wearing makeup, it can be pinned to the entire head. If you don't put on a few flower hairpins made of gold and silver, it is a whole lively spring.

The tomb of the Ming clan in Jiangyin Qingyang was unearthed

Collection of Nantong Museum

The Suzhou Museum collection of the Yongzheng period of the peony butterfly pattern plate is really lively. The blue and white circles in the center of the vessel are painted with blue and white in verdant tones, and the branches, leaves, flowers and two fluttering butterfly outlines of peonies are doubled, and then the blue and white outlines are filled with thin and elegant red, yellow, ochre and green colors for flowers, butterflies and branches and leaves. The outer walls of the vessel are painted in the same way with lake stones, flowers, hibiscus and butterflies. There's nothing better in spring than here.

Collection of Suzhou Museum

早熟的枇杷3月就上市了。在蘇州博物館內，還藏有一件陶制枇杷供器，為1987年蘇州三元新村元代石槨墓出土，灰陶製成，上有枇杷果實六十八顆，粒粒飽滿，大如真果。有十余片枝葉纏繞其間，錯落有致。枝葉果實堆塑成山形供器，寓意“枝繁葉茂”、“子孫滿堂”。

Collection of Suzhou Museum

常州博物館藏的褐色羅地貼繡牡丹蓮花紋荷包，2018年8月發現於周塘橋南宋墓。從這隻荷包，可以更直觀地感受宋式生活的氣息，領略南宋人的世俗生活的風雅。

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Simple flowers are commonplace, and the ancestors still leave us dynamic spring scenes on the ornaments.

Nanjing Xuda family cemetery unearthed a golden silk butterfly hairpin. The composition of this golden hairpin draws on the brush and ink of sketching, obliquely out of a peony, a large flower on the branch, a few small flowers on the side branches, with buds to be released, and a flower-picking butterfly perched between the branches and leaves. It depicts the spring scenery of peonies in full bloom and butterflies flying. The leaves and butterflies made of silk are welded with nine sutos, all of which were originally inlaid with precious stones, but now only one remains. A flat pipe is welded on the back branch, which should be used as a hairpin insertion.

Unearthed from the Xuda family cemetery in Nanjing

According to the scholar Yang Zhishui's research in "The Color of Luxury", "the design concept of the bee butterfly flower combination pattern is about the sketch of flowers, grass and insects in the paintings of the Five Dynasties and the Two Song Dynasties", "as a decorative pattern, it was popular in the Song Dynasty weaving and embroidery", and it was only in the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties that this kind of pattern was transferred to gold and silver jewelry. There is a "Tianshui Iceberg Record", which records in detail the assets of the Yan Song family in the Ming Dynasty. In the jewelry part, you can see "a pair of Jinxiang butterflies wearing Meicui jewelry", "a pair of Jinxiang butterfly playing flowers and treasures", "a pair of Jinxiang double butterfly peony jewelry", "one Jinxiang bee picking flower neodymium", "four Jindee love flower neodymium".

The Wuxi Museum has a Yuan Dynasty spring water jade buckle. This jade is composed of two parts, with a hook and a belt, and was unearthed in the tomb of Qian Yu of the Yuan Dynasty in Yaogeli, Junzhang Mountain, Wuxi City, in 1960 years.

Collection of Wuxi Museum

Qian Yu, the father of the word Kuan, a native of Wuxi, is a descendant of Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and was buried in the first year of Zhizhi (600 years). The buckle is a tie utensil on men's belts in ancient China. The Chunshui jade buckle unearthed from the tomb of Qian Yu is composed of two parts: buckle and hook, 0.0 cm long, 0.0 cm wide and 0.0 cm thick. Because it has been buried underground for more than 0 years, the body of the vessel is covered with soil and gray spots.

The so-called "spring water" refers to the scene of the northern nobles of the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties who were hunting in the spring and released Haidongqing to hunt swans. The whole work is set against the background of water, lotus flowers, reeds, etc., and there is a thin and long-tailed Haidongqing above the lotus leaf, and his eyes are looking back for an opportunity to catch swans. Below, a swan screams and spreads its wings in panic and dives into the lotus bush. This jade piece captures the best modal moment of both sides, with both form and spirit, and is extremely artistic.

This jade buckle is not only a beautiful work of art, but also a microcosm of the life of the northern aristocracy in the Yuan Dynasty. It gives us a glimpse into the customs and culture of that era.

It is understood that in the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties from the 14th century to the 0th century AD, the northern ethnic minorities would hold large-scale spring water hunting activities in the spring, and also carry out recreational autumn mountain hunting activities in the autumn.

Hunting activities are generally carried out by the emperor himself and his ministers, and the scene is celebratory and grand. This activity was preserved until the Yuan Dynasty. According to the literature, the place north of the Ya'er River, thirty-five miles northeast of Changchunzhou, was the place of spring hunting that year. This spring jade buckle is a popular style of jade in the Yuan Dynasty, reflecting the spring hunting activities.

Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zang Lei sorted out the report

(This article is based on Zhenjiang Museum, Qinhuai Cultural Tourism, Jiangnan Evening News, Suzhou Museum official website, "The Color of Luxury", etc.)

Proofread by Pan Zheng