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2. Yupei - Wikipedia

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   Yupei could be stringed together to make an ensemble of jade pendants (which would hold at the belt and could also be composed of chains of bi (璧; jade discs or jade rings). [ 2 ] : 18–20 Jade in the form of huang were also popular in the making of yupei and had a rigid and specific rules attached to its use.

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. Pounamu - Wikipedia

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   The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ninamu. [2] Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of ...

5. Gemstone Meanings: Power and Significance of the 25 Most ...

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   Emeralds and other green gemstones like tourmaline, peridot, and jade correlate to the green color wavelength and heart chakra, so wearing stones of such color can amplify one’s heartfelt ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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".