Jade dragon pendant, middle Warring States period (375-276 BCE)-China Archive

Image Number:K1C002829N000000000PAC
Dynamy:Warring States period
Category:Jade
Function:Clothing and accessories
Material:Mineral/jade jewelry/jade
Description:
green jade, The local area is slightly stained brown. This jade dragon is designed with square jade, and its volume is larger than that of ordinary people. The Emperor Qianlong attached great importance to this jade dragon and made an exquisite wooden seat for it. The bottom of the wooden seat is engraved with the imperial poems of the Emperor Qianlong, hoping to enrich the people. The content of the poem is: “A thousand years of dragon winding green jade river, Kun Wu’s skillful hand to hand duels. The sky is strange and the clouds are hovering in clouds. There are many clouds, scales, hyenas, and strange lights. They fly away and turn into Lei Zesuo. I wish to nourish the fields with rain and listen to the harvest songs all over the earth. The emperor of the Qianlong Dynasty would like to reward the enemy in winter.”