object

Heshi bi

Objects · Colors & materials · Myth & story

A named circular jade disc of Chinese story, the Heshi treasure. Not jade as a material, and not every later bi-disc of archaeology.

Chinese tradition

  • Heshi bi appears in Chinese tradition.

    Laufer’s Jade treats the Heshi bi as the named circular jade of Chinese story, the Ho-shih treasure. A named disc in that handbook, not jade as a material, and not every later bi-disc of archaeology.

    from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • Jade · Berthold Laufer

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