| Jade is a hard translucent stone which has been used | | | | every era, Jade artwork reflects the Chinese culture |
| in China dating back 7000 years. The Chinese have an | | | | with a different expression and amount of items, as |
| association with Jade that has a symbol for all good, | | | | each era surpasses. |
| pure, noble and sublime. Jade artistic works not only | | | | As each era progressed, so did the statues inside the |
| carries a very personal relations and representation by | | | | temples with lavish Jade spread throughout all the way |
| the means of China, but Jade also demonstrates an | | | | up the Buddha Jade statues that were many of them |
| independent strength and beauty for a worldly unique | | | | are larger than life. The Jade Buddha Temple in |
| expression of stone. There were at least 13 Chinese | | | | Shanghai City was originally built in 1882, but destroyed |
| dynasties that Jade is known to have been highly | | | | in 1911 during the Qing Dynasty. The Jade Temple was |
| associated with, in one various development form to | | | | finished with being rebuilt by 1928, there had been 5 |
| another there was a different association accordingly | | | | Jade statues of Buddha before the invasion, there are |
| through each era. | | | | still two Buddha statues that had survived the |
| Jade is not only the light greenish color that most think | | | | devastation. |
| of, but it comes in several color variations. From a | | | | All throughout China, there are variations in Jade most |
| milky white to even milky orange or even bluish | | | | everywhere, just as much as in the Temples. The |
| lavender, are all in the direct line of the Jade family. | | | | Statues are often bigger than life made of different |
| Due to the hard feature of Jade, this stone is shaped | | | | types of Jade and the different Buddha formations. |
| by grinding instead of carving. There are many cultures | | | | The Chinese do not only connect Jade with most |
| where Jade has been a part of, but none of the | | | | aspect of their cultural being, but they also share there |
| connections are as close as the connection of | | | | beautiful Jade craftsmanship with the world today by |
| Chinese culture and jade. | | | | the means of having Jade carving factories that |
| Ornamental Jade plaques are one of the original art | | | | creates many various forms of Jade and granite |
| works linking as far back as the Hsing Lumg culture. In | | | | statues. These statues are not only the cultural |
| the Inner Mongolia area of Chih Feng, there are the | | | | connections of Buddha to the outside world, but every |
| first signs found of the Jade and Chinese cultural | | | | aspect of Jade portrays expression and beauty of the |
| craftsmanship. It is from 7000 years and till today in | | | | skill of the craftsman. |