Here is an introduction which is also an excerpt from my book on Pan Hong Shan Jade Culture. It is written in Chinese and roughly translated to English. Please email me or comment below if you would like to discuss on this topic. Also if you are interested in the book, you may contact me as well.
《万古奇珍—泛红山文化玉群》简介
本书系通过一大批远古红山文化型玉器的研究，发现了一个被遗落的远古文明时代。该文明与新石器时期中国北方的红山文化直接相关，其时空范围涵盖了红山文化，作者以“泛红山文化”命名之，与之相应的玉器群称为“泛红山文化玉群”。泛红山文化始自末次冰期，是高水平的史前文化。是中华文明以及患太平洋地区文明的源头。
本书属文物考古范畴，是一部重要的史前考古文献，也是一部精美的远古雕塑艺术大典籍。
本书的概论题为“穿越时空的探索—论泛红山文化玉群”，该论文通过对泛红山文化玉群的研究，论证了自末次冰期晚期直至新石器时期悠长的时间范围内，及 自东北亚横跨北太平洋直至美洲西北部的广阔范围内曾经有过以 “泛红山文化”为代表的时期人类文明，并且对楷文化的性质做了具体的分析和研究。其内容涉及：
- 原始氏族社会的各类原始崇拜，如自然崇拜、祖先崇拜、生殖崇拜、性崇拜、图腾崇拜等，以及原始宗教的地位和作用；
- 在史前文化中独具特色的外星生命体崇拜，以及外星科技介入人类文明的可能性；
- 泛红山文化的时空范畴以及它与红山文化的关系；
- 泛红山文化向环太平洋地区扩散；
- 泛红山文化与当是世界上不同地区的文化交流以及当是存在世界性整体文明的可能性；
- 对玉群中大量融合体造型的分析；
- 基因改造产生现代人的可能性；
- 泛红山文化玉器的特点等。
著名历史学家何光岳先生为本书作序，他对于本书的观点予以肯定，并给予本书很高的评价。
书中工选用泛红山文化玉器530件。分为九大系列（即书中的九章），系统地，图文并茂地展现了泛红山文化的神奇风貌。其九大系列分别是：
第一章． 人、神系列；
第二章． 龙系列；
第三章． 飞禽系列；
第四章． 走兽、家畜系列；
第五章． 昆虫系列；
第六章． 水族系列；
第七章． 生殖文化和性文化系列；
第八章． 外星生命体系列；
第九章． 器物系列。
《万古奇珍—泛红山文化玉群》是一部重要的史前考古文献，也是一部精美的远古雕塑艺术大典籍。它是史前文明研究和古玉器研究不可多得的经典之作。作者对泛红山文化玉群进行了理论研究，同时还展示了500余件泛红山文化玉器的精美图片。该书同时具备了文献和图典的双重性质，收藏价值很高。下面是书中各章的图片选。
Translated:
A lost prehistoric civilization was discovered by means of studying a large number of Hongshan type jade. This civilization directly related to the Hongshan culture in North China during the Neolithic period. Its spatial and temporal span covered the Hongshan culture, so the author called it “Pan-Hongshan culture”. Its corresponding jade group was called “Pan-Hongshan cultural jade group”. The Pan-Hongshan culture began in the Last Ice Age. It’s a high level prehistoric culture. It’s an important source of civilization of China and the area of Pacific Rim.
This book belongs to the category of the archaeology of the cultural relics. It’s an important prehistoric archaeological document and an elegant prehistoric sculpture art book too.
There is an article: “The exploration of crossing the time and space —-On Pan-Hingshan cultural jade group” on the beginning of this book. Going through the study of the Pan-Hongshan cultural jade group, the author proved that there was a prehistoric civilization represented by Pan-Hongshan culture during the late of the Last Ice Age, its area was from Northeast Asia across North Pacific Ocean to North America. The author has made a concrete analysis and research on its cultural characteristics. A number of academic problems were dealing with in the book, such as:
- The different kinds of original worship in the clan society, such as worshipping the nature, worshipping the ancestor, worshipping the reproduction, worshipping the sex, totemism etc, and the social position and function of the original religion.
- Worshipping the fantastic living bodies of the outer space in the prehistoric culture period and the possibility that the alien and its space science and technology participated in the development process of human civilization.
- The spatial and temporal span of the Pan-Hongshan culture and the relationship between the Hongshan culture and the Pan-Hongshan culture.
- The Pan-Hongshan culture spread to the area of Pacific Rim.
- The cultural exchanges among the Pan-Hongshan culture and other cultures in different areas of the world and different races in the world, and the possibility of existence of an integrity civilization of the world at that time.
- The analysis of all kinds of the integrated art objects in the Pan-Hongonshan cultural jade group.
- The possibility of producing modern human beings by means of gene reforming.
- The distinguishing features of Pan-Hongshan cultural jade works.
Mr.He Guang Yue the famous historian prefaced this book with an introduction. He affirmed the viewpoints proposed by the author, and gave a high evaluation on this book.
There’re 528 photos of Pan-Hongshan cultural jade pieces in the book. They were divided into nine series (nine chapters).They are:
Chapter 1 The series of human and deity
Chapter 2 The series of dragon
Chapter 3 The series of bird
Chapter 4 The series of beast and livestock
Chapter 5 The series of insect
Chapter 6 The series of aquatic animal
Chapter 7 The series of reproductive culture and sex culture
Chapter 8 The series of living body of the outer space
Chapter 9 The series of utensil and ornament
This book is an important archaeological document as well as a classical archaic jade picture album; it’s a useful reference book for the scholars who study the archaic jade or the prehistoric civilization. It has high collection value.
Pan Hong Shan Jade (泛红山文化) 