齐家文化是中国(也是世界)史前文化中最大批量地生产和使用玉礼器的一个西北地方的文化共同体,可以将该文化视为玉器时代后期、青铜时代早期在黄河上游地区形成的一个“古国”。2015年4月举行的第四次玉帛之路考察聚焦广和县和积石山县的齐家文化遗址,以期对中国西部玉矿资源区的整体性新认识。文章经过实证研究指出,齐家文化对中国玉文化史的意义,不仅在于其自身的玉礼器体系为华夏文明玉礼器体系产生奠基作用,而且在于其开启了西玉东输的4000年历程。
Qijia Culture is a northwestern China's cultural community used on the largest scale in Chinese (also the world) prehistory. It can be in which jade wares were produced and regarded as an "ancient country" formed in the upper region of the Yellow River in the Late Jade Age and the Early Bronze Age. The fourth investigation on Road of Jade Objects and Silk Fabrics in April 2015 focused on Qijia Cultural Site in Guanghe and Jishishan counties, aiming at attaining a new overall understanding of jade resource section in western China. After empirical research, this paper points out the significance of Qijia Culture in Chinese jade cultural history lies not only in that its own jade ritual system acted as the foundation for the formation of the jade ritual system in Chinese civilization, but also in that it opened the four thousand years history of transporting west jade to the East.