Blue Jade Twelve Stars – Rabbit

[Blue jade twelve stars — rabbit]

Blue jade twelve stars — rabbit, clear, 5.3 cm high, 4 cm wide, 3.2 cm thick
It is a three-dimensional round sculpture with the head of a rabbit in a sitting position, with the left leg upright, the left elbow on the left leg knee, the left hand raised, holding two leaves, and the right hand shaking the fan
In the twelve stars, the rabbit usually looks like a rabbit with a head and a body, holding a jade pestle. This jade rabbit is not holding a pestle, but two leaves, which comes from the legend of “Wu Gang Zhuo Gui”. It is said that Wu Gang was a native of Xihe in the Han Dynasty. The Jade Emperor punished him to cut down osmanthus trees in the moon palace until he fell down. The osmanthus trees in front of the Guanghan Palace grow luxuriantly and are more than 500 feet high. Each time they are cut down, the cut places will immediately close. For thousands of years, this laurel tree can never be cut down. It is said that only on August 16 every year, a leaf falls from the moon to the ground. If anyone picks up the leaves of the osmanthus tree in the moon palace, he will get inexhaustible gold, silver and precious stones. Li Bai has a poem that “if you want to carve out the laurel in the middle of the month, you should pay for the cold”. This jade rabbit is holding this kind of leaves, which means bringing endless wealth