Saturday, August 29, 2015

Treasured jade bangles

                                                                                   Attribution:LA County Museum
Image: Bracelet in the Form of Two Dragons and a Pearl (here)
(green colored jade bracelets were frequently seen
before adorning wrists of elegant Chinese ladies)

Treasured jade bangles
Reassurance at the wrists
Measure of long life

Reflecting sun's rays
Green colored jades warding off
bad feng shui effects

For Chev's CARPE DIEM Time Machine #15 -  jade

5 comments:

  1. If only jade had those properties! (I'm afraid I'm not a believer, but jade makes for great tales.)

    Jade/Shadows/Six Words

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  2. Yeah, I wish stones really did contain properties like that.

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  3. Be nice if it were true at many a zoo

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  4. Lovely .. I once had a jade bangle ... nice memory!

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  5. Exotic stones inspire imagination...cool haiku.

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