* Bi ( jade ), a type of jade disc produced in ancient China

Among the objects found as offerings in the tomb were jade beads around the necks of two of the corpses, wafer-like disc shells forming a choker on one skeleton, jade earplug flares, an unusually large amount of shells, a fine obsidian blade, a tortoise shell, metates, and various fine pottery pieces including a whistling jar and a carved tripod vessel.

A bi is a flat jade disc with a circular hole in the centre.

Found in the State of Chu by a man named Bian He, it was first made into a jade disc, then into the Imperial Seal of China by Qinshihuang.

instead of a necktie he wore a leather bolo drawn through a golden ring in which was set a lump of pale pure jade.

The rediscovery of the Nepōhualtzintzin was due to the Mexican engineer David Esparza Hidalgo, who in his wanderings throughout Mexico found diverse engravings and paintings of this instrument and reconstructed several of them made in gold, jade, encrustations of shell, etc.

The department's primary purpose was to manage the internal affairs of the imperial family and the activities of the inner palace ( in which tasks it largely replaced eunuchs ), but it also played an important role in Qing relations with Tibet and Mongolia, engaged in trading activities ( jade, ginseng, salt, furs, etc.

From the 2nd millennium BC nephrite jade was being traded from mines in the region of Yarkand and Khotan to China.

Following contacts of metropolitan China with nomadic western border territories in the 8th century BC, gold was introduced from Central Asia, and Hotan Kashteshi Hotan jade carvers began to make imitation designs of the steppes, adopting the Scythian-style animal art of the steppes ( depictions of animals locked in combat ).

Small Buddhist figures and groups were produced to a very high quality in a range of media, as was relief decoration of all sorts of objects, especially in metalwork and jade.

Chinese jade was attributed with magical powers, and was used in the Stone and Bronze Ages for large and impractical versions of everyday weapons and tools, as well as the bi disks and cong vessels.

The Han Dynasty was known for jade burial suits.

The 1995 jersey was jade green with eggplant and white stripes on the collar and on the end of the sleeves.

The third was a jade green-colored jersey with silver and eggplant stripes at the shoulders outlined in thin yellow, and a silver stripe at the bottom.

It was white with jade green, eggplant, and silver stripes at the shoulders of the jersey, but no bottom stripe.

The popularity of this jersey amongst fans was so great it replaced the eggplant and jade jersey, serving as the home jersey for the last half of the 2005 – 06 season and playoffs.

Several Chinese characters for non-Chinese peoples were graphic pejoratives, the character for the Yao people, for instance, was changed from yao 猺 " jackal " to yao 瑤 " precious jade ".

Geographer Li Daoyuan, six centuries after the death of the First Emperor, recorded in Shui Jing Zhu that Mount Li was a favoured location due to its auspicious geology: "... famed for its jade mines, its northen side was rich in gold, and its southern side rich in beautiful jade ; the First Emperor, covetous of its fine reputation, therefore chose to be buried there ".

In 1961, W. R. Bullard conducted excavations led by the Royal Ontario Museum ( Rom ), at Baking Pot and San Estevan, and although no excavations took place, the site was initially called “ Rockstone Pond .” In 1963, quarrying activity by local villagers led to a recovery of a large and elaborate carved jade pendant.

The tomb itself contained the remains of an adult male that was interred with a jade and shell necklace, a pair of jade earflares, two shell disks, a pair of pearls, five pottery vessels, and fifty-nine valves of Spondylus shell.

Red pigment was distributed throughout the tomb, with evidence of it on most of the jade.

The jade head was placed at the pelvis of the body, with the face of the jade boulder facing the skull.

Today the village is modernizing quickly and political views are UDP Guinea Grass is known for its neat beautiful village module and river bank The early people used to work as chicleros, hunters, mahogany loggers for the British. This was the deaced hon George. C. Price home town when he was 8 yrs old stories say that elderly people buried their gold chains etc., silver, jade, that their long ago ancestors left for them. Up to now nothing's been found.

Whalley had been hit on the head and then his throat had been cut and some jade figures he had had been stolen.

The brothers remembered the piece of jade they found in the knapsack and it might have been stolen from the burial site.

She finds the second half of the jade circlet that Arthur had stolen.

The presence of dragons within Chinese culture dates back several thousands of years with the discovery of a dragon statue dating back to the fifth millennium BC from the Yangshao culture in Henan in 1987, and jade badges of rank in coiled form have been excavated from the Hongshan culture circa 4700-2900 BC.

The character for " dragon " in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period.

The character for " dragon " in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period.

The crowns of Silla are noted for their exquisite gold and jade workmanship, which resulted from the spread of goldsmithing technologies from Egypt and Mesopotamia to Korea via the Silk Road.

Many of these luxury artifacts were made from materials such as jade, obsidian and magnetite, which came from distant locations and suggest that early Olmec elites had access to an extensive trading network in Mesoamerica.

The source of the most valued jade, for example, is found in the Motagua River valley in eastern Guatemala, and Olmec obsidian has been traced to sources in the Guatemala highlands, such as El Chayal and San Martín Jilotepeque, or in Puebla, distances ranging from 200 to 400 km away ( 120 – 250 miles away ), respectively.

The gallery is richly endowed with art of the Mughal Empire, including fine portraits of the emperors and other paintings and drawings, jade wine cups and gold spoons inset with emeralds, diamonds and rubies, also from this period are parts of buildings such as a jaali and pillars.

Notably, a metre high bronze head of Buddha dated to the c750 AD and one of the oldest items a 2, 000 year old jade horse head from a burial, other sculptures include life size tomb guardians.

* The Yao people's exonym changed from ( 犭 " dog radical " and yao 䍃 phonetic ) yao 猺 " jackal ; the Yao ", to ( 亻 " human radical ") yao 傜 " the Yao ", and to ( 玉 " jade radical ") yao 瑤 " precious jade ; green jasper ; the Yao.

Prehistoric Māori adzes from New Zealand, used for wood carving, were made from nephrite, also known as jade.

The Motagua River flows down from the western Guatemalan highlands, and Quiriguá was ideally positioned to control the trade of uncut jade, the majority of which was found in the middle reaches of the Motagua Valley, as well as controlling the flow of other important commodities up and down the river such as cacao, which was produced as a local cash crop.

Although little jade has been recovered from the site, there is evidence for trade in obsidian originating from the Ixtepeque source situated near the upper reaches of the Motagua.

There are some, perhaps ceremonial, jian which are carved from a single solid piece of jade.

The English word jade ( alternative spellings " jaid ", " jadeite ") is derived ( via French l ' ejade and Latin ilia ) from the Spanish term piedra de ijada ( first recorded in 1565 ) or " loin stone ", from its reputed efficacy in curing ailments of the loins and kidneys.

Among the earliest known jade artifacts excavated from prehistoric sites are simple ornaments with bead, button, and tubular shapes.