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Introduction
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China’s Ancient Jade Culture
Seven thousand years ago, our ancient ancestors took a fancy to a strange, greenish stone, and began fashioning decorative items out of it. The stone, as you may have guessed, was jade, and this was the beginning of Chinese jade culture. With its fine quality, jade stone was soon marked out as something that ought to be valued – and in extreme cases, even worshipped.