鹿,古人认为是仁兽,有祥瑞之兆。《宋书·符瑞志》记载:“鹿为纯善禄兽,王者孝,则白鹿见,王者明,惠及下,亦见。”人们又借鹿和禄同韵,常以鹿寓禄,以象征官运亨通。鹿又是人们狩猎和驯养的对象,同日常生活息息相关。所以它常被作为吉祥纹饰装饰在玉器或其他器物上。鹿纹玉器最早见于商朝晚期,经西周、南北朝和隋唐的发展,到宋金元时出现鹿纹玉器制作的高潮,明清两朝衰落,具体表现是数量虽多,而 Deer, the ancients considered benevolence, Auspicious sign. “Song book Fu Rui Zhi” records: “Deer is a pure good animal, the king of filial piety, the white deer see, the king of Ming, benefit, see also.” People and deer and reed with the rhyme, , A symbol of official operation Hengtong. Deer is the object of hunting and domesticated people, closely related to daily life. So it is often decorated as auspicious ornaments on jade or other objects. Deer jade was first seen in the late Shang Dynasty. After the development of the Western Zhou, Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties, the climax of the deer jade production appeared in the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. The Ming and Qing Dynasties declined,