the JADE thread!

[Jade4Me]

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Nice stack! Your dream bangle is so pretty!

 

[clairejune]

Gorgeous stack Red! You've got your dream bangle on.....don't forget to live in your dream, and use your art! It takes courage to be happy.

 

[udalrike]

Claire, thank you for the sentence: It takes courage to be happy!
A great sentence!!!

 

[udalrike]

We should engrave it in jade!

 

[clairejune]

Uli, it's a great sentence. When I divorced my first husband, a woman in my dance class said it to me as I was crying. It helped me so much and i always remember it when going through a tough or scary time.

 

[udalrike]

I won´t forget it too, I am sure!!!

 

[germanshepard]

Ladies, here is a link where we can learn the history of jade in China with some photos of artifacts.

https://sites.google.com/site/palaceantique/ming-and-qing-1368-ad-1911-ad

Help us to understand and appreciate jades more. Enjoy!

 

[udalrike]

GS, thanks for the interesting link!!

 

[germanshepard]

Short story today for everyone's amusement.

The Book of Strange Tales says that in the ancient Baishi Kingdom, every resident had a complexion as white as jade. They did not cultivate grain crops but planted jade instead. They would grind jade into powder which was both nourishing and delicious. When they entertained guests, they treated them wine sprinkled with jade powder. One Chinese gallon of wine could keep someone intoxicated for three years. Thus people in the kingdom were all said to live beyond 1,000 years!

 

[germanshepard]

My mother don't eat jade powder but she takes pearl powder from time to time. She said pearl powder can cool the body when one is feverish.

So eating jade powder in ancient time could be true. Shows how Chinese love and appreciate jade so much.

 

[clairejune]

This is awesome GS! You are awesome too

 

[udalrike]

So your mother is an Asian Cleopatra as she did the same!!!

I like this pendant:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Natural-Jad...Pendant-/380998135756?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&h

 

[clairejune]

If only we could do that...grow jade! We'd be eating, sleeping, walking dreaming jade. Such passion!

 

[Jade4Me]

We should engrave it in jade!

Great idea & what a perfect talisman that would make!

Uli, it's a great sentence. When I divorced my first husband, a woman in my dance class said it to me as I was crying. It helped me so much and i always remember it when going through a tough or scary time.

Thanks for sharing that wonderful sentence!

 

[Molly0]

Claire, thank you for the sentence: It takes courage to be happy!
A great sentence!!!

Yes, indeed! I'm going to engrave that on something.

Thanks so much for sharing that!