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The pendant is of a different version of the Ye Le Li featured earlier in the blog. Ye Le Li was used as a status identification object, a decoration that is hang by the waist.
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A matching pair of ear rings that goes with the Miao neckwear on yesterday’s blog. This pair of ear rings are also an assemblage of the accessories found on the Miao’s costume.
The ear rings look like a pair of Miao dancers. Here is a video of the Miao dancers wearing costumes with accessories (but I am sure your eyes will be focus on the sweet little girl dancing along on the left)
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DIA140mm, China
This neckware is an assemblage of different accessories found on the Miao tribal costume. The lower part of the neckware can be taken off for a different look.
The Miao’s jewellery has always been a collector’s item. This new design made the Miao accessories more wearable with today’s fashion.
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DIA120mm, China
Yu Bi is a form of jade that is used for ceremony, like the jade huang it is one of the 6 forms of jade that is used for ritual ceremony and later identification. Yu Bi generally describes a piece of circular jade with a hole in the middle, as they sometimes come with pattern, this particular would be known as a Su (plain) Yu Bi, its being raised up in the center is known as a collar hence You Ling (collar) Su Yu Bi. This form of Yu Bi was for the late Shang dynasty, like the iphone in the 20th century, it was an high tech object, a status symbol that became so popular that it can be found in various parts of China.
This is Emporer Qian Long’s favourite, he wrote several poems about it and asked for the poem to be engraved onto the jade. The item is now part of the British Museum Collection.
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A pair of jade bats.
The Chinese believes that bats symbolizes blessing, 2 bats, double blessing.
The word for bat is 蝠 ( fu), which sound like the word for blessing, 福 (fu)
Personally, I think they are the sweetest bats, perhaps second to this … wait to see it even yawns!
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This beautiful necklace is made up of a string of hollowed jade beads.
The colour works strikely well with the hand woven Chinese knots string.
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The creature of the pendant is known as a “Tao Tie”, in mythical legend he is fifth son of the dragon. The Tao Tie has the face of a goat and the body of a man, he has eyes under his armpits, teeth of the tiger but the voice of a baby.
The Tao Tie is said to be a greedy eater and thus his images are found in a lot of bronze cauldrons, even the gourmet experts are referred to as old Tao.
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It would be hard to guess what is the black metal badge behind the dragon.
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A bronze mirror! This mirror is unfortunately not polished, so you will not be able to turn it over to re-apply the lipstick after meal.
For the Chinese, the bronze mirror is a lovers’ keepsake, a token of love. The story goes back to the Southern and Northern dynasty; a couple was departed during the war, the husband saw the bronze mirror in half and each kept a piece as a keepsake. Years later, after a lot of hardship the two was able to find each other with the token mirror. And finally the circular mirror was completed again.
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Jade huang is one of the six forms of jade used for the recruitment of the court, a little bit like the staff identification card of today. Each form and its different material would represent a different grade in the court. By the Shang dynasty, it is more of a decorative object worn over the chest as a pendant.
This necklace is made up of piece of a hetain jade (nephrite) huang, tied together in the fashion of the famous jade armor.
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