HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Question
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The tools that were used were not that sharp or precise.
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The ancient Chinese didn’t like working with Jade.
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Jade was a rarity.
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all of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the era of Shang dynasty art, notably at Anyang, a new range of jade objects began to be carved, such as ceremonial weapons and their fittings, as well as ritual jades (the cong, the bi), personal jewellery, and dress ornaments.
Detailed explanation-2: -Excavated from mountains and picked up in riverbeds-and so known as ‘the essence of heaven and earth’, the stones could not be cut by a metal knife, and so they were shaped using a cord and sand acting as an abrasive before being more precisely carved using a drill and then polished.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sets of criteria have been established which permit six techniques of carving to be recognised. These have been interpreted as drilling, wheel-cutting, sawing, flexible string sawing, riffling and point or blade abrasion.