object

Gui

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

A named pointed jade tablet of early Chinese ritual rank. Not a bi, not a cong, and not jade as a material.

Also known as Jade gui

Chinese tradition

  • Gui appears in Chinese tradition.

    Laufer’s Jade treats the gui as a named pointed jade tablet of early Chinese rank. A named insignia-form in that survey, not the bi disc, not the cong, and not an ofuda dump.

    from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • Jade · Berthold Laufer

    Berthold Laufer, Jade: A Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion.