object

Zhang tablet

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

A named forked jade blade of early Chinese burial sets. Not a gui-tablet, not a bi-disk, not a cong, and not huang-jade.

Also known as Zhang

Chinese tradition

  • Zhang tablet appears in Chinese tradition.

    Laufer’s Jade treats the zhang as a named forked jade blade of early Chinese burial sets. A named insignia-form in that survey, not the gui tablet, not the bi disc, and not huang-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.