Jade Yue

[Jade Yue]

Jade three-hole shovel, 27 cm long, 16 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick. Longshan Culture in the Neolithic Age
The shovel is trapezoidal, cyan yellow jade with heavy ochre spots. Flaky, with a blade at the wide end, grinded from both sides, one hole at the middle of the narrow end and two holes at the side. The surface of the shovel is smooth, the shape is regular, and the edge line is straight, showing good processing technology
According to Professor Liu Dunyuan of Shandong University, in the 1930s, Mr. Liu Shuyi, a Chinese doctor in two towns of Rizhao County, Shandong Province, obtained five jade articles buried in the same pit, one of which was the three-hole shovel, and entered the Palace Museum in 1957
This jade spatula is exquisite and has no sign of chopping and smashing. It is a jade ritual tool in the Longshan culture period