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2. Yupei - Wikipedia

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   Yupei (Chinese: 玉佩; pinyin: Yùpèi) is a generic term for jade pendants. [1] Yupei were popular even before Confucius was born. [2]: 18 Jade culture is an important component of Chinese culture, [1] reflecting both the material and spiritual culture.

3. Hanfu accessories - Wikipedia

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   Some jade pendants also combined jades in the shape of dragons, phoenixes, humans, human-dragons, and animals, etc. [20] [21] [22] In the Qing dynasty, it was popular for women to wear green, translucent jade jewelries; pendants which were carved in the shape of a curving dragon was popular. [23]

4. Magatama - Wikipedia

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   Both jade magatama from the site are of unusually high-quality brilliant green jade. [16] One known center of Yayoi magatama production was in the area of the Tamatsukuri Inari Shrine in Osaka. Tamatsukuri literally means "jewel making", and a guild, the Tamatsukuri-be, was active from the Yayoi period. An existing jewel at the shrine is said ...

5. World-Renowned Artist Frida Kahlo Had an Eye for Jewelry—Here ...

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   Kahlo wore her pre-Columbian carved beads in her art, as seen in her 1933 Self-Portrait With Necklace (the first where she now famously drops in wisps of a mustache). These are crafted of jade ...

6. Chinese jade - Wikipedia

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   Oracle bone script for 玉 "jade".. The Chinese word yù 玉 "jade; gems of all kinds; (of women) beautiful; (courteous) your" has semantically broader meanings than English jade "any of various hard greenish gems used in jewelry and artistic carvings, including jadeite and nephrite; a green color of medium hue; made of jade; green like jade".

7. Hei-tiki - Wikipedia

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   Traditionally there were several types of hei-tiki which varied widely in form. Modern-day hei-tiki, however, may be divided into two types. The first type is rather delicate with a head/body ratio of approximately 30/70 and small details such as ears, elbows and knees.