The Largest Green Jade Appears In The New Zealand Pavilion &Nbsp; Touch Can Bring Good Luck.

"Unlike some baby with double explosion-proof glass, the treasure of our Pavilion is at the gate."

The New Zealand museum official is very proud of his baby.

It turned out that the pavilion at the entrance of the New Zealand Pavilion was the treasure of the museum, a jade weighing 1.8 tons.

The largest piece of green jade in the world

The New Zealand Pavilion with a triangular slope is like a lush and vibrant hill in the Expo Park.

At the entrance of the "hill" entrance, a heavyweight jade is placed.

This jade is named Pounamu, which shows a dark, dark green color in the gurgling stream. The tentacles feel smooth and smooth.

This is the largest green jade in the world. 6 years ago, a Maori family in New Zealand blue island discovered it in a stream.

In the New Zealand, this jade is regarded as the most precious treasure that human nature gives to mankind. It has been exhibited in Japan's Aichi World Expo before, and tens of millions of hands have touched it now.

"The Chinese and New Zealand's Maori people all respect jade. In New Zealand, jade has a strong symbolic significance, representing majesty and strength. I know that in China, jade symbolizes wisdom and power. This is very similar to the two countries. The two peoples have a special feeling for jade."

Ji Binli, general representative of New Zealand government of World Expo, Shanghai said.

Mr. Ji Binli is one of the most senior diplomats in New Zealand. He was appointed general representative of 2010 New Zealand government of World Expo, Shanghai in September 2009.

From 2004 to 2005, he served as the general representative of Aichi, World Expo, New Zealand government.

In his eyes, this jade represents the soul of New Zealand. When tourists touch this precious jade, they will touch the spirit of New Zealand with their own hands.

Why do the Maori worshipped jade represent the soul of New Zealand? What kind of status Maori culture occupies in New Zealand? Let's look at the past and present of Maori and New Zealand together.

Maori's past and present life

The Maori were originally Asian residents and migrated to Polynesian islands in the South Pacific in third Century.

While Europeans still doubt whether there is any land on the other side of the earth, the Hawaiki Islanders in southern Hawaii have explored the south by raft and arrived in New Zealand in 850.

The first batch of Maori people took a poetic name to this uninhabited island: the white clouds around the island (Aotearoa).

In the 1200, Maori were distributed in many parts of North Island and South Island.

They get food from rich natural resources and have simple trade practices. The so-called "Maori culture" has gradually formed and has been handed down from generation to generation.

In the 1642, the first European navigator came here, when most Maori people lived in the warm areas of the North Island.

Abel Tesman, a Dutch man, anchored on the shore this year, named Staten Land for the land, which was later in New Zealand.

In 1769, the captain of the James Cook arrived in the Green Island and sailed along the sea, and began trading activities with the Maori, claiming that Britain had sovereignty over the land. At that time, the Maori people had lived here for more than one thousand years now. James Cook,

However, there is no such thing as "land ownership" in Maori thought, nor can Europeans want to divide up the land.

In order to quell the conflict, the British government and the Maori Sheikh signed the Treaty of Huai Tang Ji in 1840.

When entering the twentieth Century, the Maori population in New Zealand reduced to around forty thousand. At that time, European scholars even believed that Maori could disappear in history like the Aboriginal people in Tasmania, Australia, but this is not the case.

In New Zealand, you will always feel the existence of Maori culture. Although the Maori people account for only about 15% of the total population of New Zealand, their language and culture will have an important impact on the life of New Zealand.

The Maori culture is colorful, and traditional arts such as carving, weaving, group dancing, lecturing and tattoos are enduring throughout the country.

Artists not only inherited their ancestors' skills for hundreds of years, but also developed new skills and forms.

The Maori are born artists, especially in music and dance.

From the missionaries, they learned the melody and harmony of the hymn, and then skillfully applied it to develop the Maori's bright and pleasant music.

Maori dance, similar to the Hawaii hula dance, is the main performance in New Zealand's festival celebrations.

The essence of Maori culture has been preserved in New Zealand. Now it has become a major tourism feature of New Zealand.

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Touches jade and gains good luck.

"Maori's life in New Zealand is very important. We call our own culture a bi cultural country, because we have a very strong Maori local culture and a very strong immigration culture.

We even call ourselves a multi racial culture.

Because part of our emigration may have come from Europe. In recent years, there are many immigrants from Asia, and many new Zealanders can be seen in China.

But we are not talking about them just now, but because we include all of them in new Zealanders, and we are a multi racial culture.

Ji Binli, general representative of the New Zealand government of World Expo, Shanghai, said: "green jade marks the blending of the two kinds of jade culture between China and Singapore, highlighting the cultural and emotional ties between the two peoples."

The theme of the New Zealand Pavilion in World Expo, Shanghai is "the city of nature: between heaven and earth". Its originality is rooted in the creation myth of the local Maori.

Coincidentally, this myth is similar to the myth of "ancient Pangu open heaven and earth" in ancient China.

In the Maori mythology of creation, the father of the sky, Rangi, and mother Papa of the earth, had been close together. Even the light could not penetrate them; and their children, the gods, tried to separate heaven from earth. Finally, only Tane, the God of the forest, did it. He stood up and pushed the tightly bound father and mother together, so that people could live in the light.

The Maori world Genesis myth is a symbol of the history and culture of new Zealanders. It is also the embodiment of this nation's spiritual connotation from ancient times to the present.

The welcoming square in front of the New Zealand Pavilion is the physical presentation of the "father earth mother": the white pillars stand on the square representing the earth, representing towering forests supporting the white canopy that represents the sky.

Put the "treasure of the town hall" in the entrance, so that each visitor can touch with his hands before entering the door, and then feel the connection between man and nature in moist, cool and moist.

According to Ji Binli, this jade was specially shipped to China for World Expo, and the traditional rituals of Maori were held respectively before and before the arrival of New Zealand in Shanghai.

It is learnt that when World Expo ends, it will also carry out a Maori ceremony when it moves away from Shanghai.

The New Zealand Pavilion invites every visitor to touch the precious jade, because visitors will also gain a good fortune while touching the jade.