object

Huang jade

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

A named arc-shaped jade of early Chinese burial sets. Not a bi-disk, not a cong, not a gui-tablet, and not the generic jade node.

Also known as Huang

Chinese tradition

  • Huang jade appears in Chinese tradition.

    Laufer’s Jade treats the huang as a named arc-shaped jade of early Chinese sets. A named form in that archaeological survey, not the bi disc, not the cong, and not generic jade.

    from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • Jade · Berthold Laufer

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