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The inceptive semiosis of jade in ancient Chinese culture combines the physical image and poetic imagery of jade as an original sign and constructs the langue for discourses and exegeses in mythology and religion, in ethics and politics, in rituals and rites, and in personality and gender. The worship of jade arises much earlier than the arrival of the written form of Chinese language. Hence jade is of telepathic divinity, and combining it with religious and philosophical concepts not only helped create the original cosmology and worldview of the ancient Chinese nation, but also enlightened the doctrines and creeds later advocated by both Taoism and Confucianism, signifying the heavenly way and worldly principle, the supreme divine and secular power, and the entelechy of human life. Jade worship gave rise to the semiosis of multifarious cultural categories and social institutions in terms of ideologies, aestheticism, and hierarchy that dominated the feudal times of China. The semiotic analysis of jade in this article starts from the evolution of Chinese characters, extends to the integration of synesthesia and imagination, sensation and rationality, and further relates to the ideation of metaphysical cosmology and practical social culture, which entails a theoretical frame of multiple perspectives.

An illustration of the polysemiosis of jade as a sign vehicle in traditional Chinese culture – an exemplar of formal and essential intuition