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Jade : a study in Chinese archaeology and religion (1912)

Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History · leaf 267

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INBBo) WOUA JADE. | 171 Fic. 79. Jade of the Type huang. … legend of Lii Shang or T‘ai-kung wang catching a carp in whose belly a jade carving huang was found with the inscription: ‘‘The family Ki will be elevated to the throne, and Li will aid it.’ Wén-wang then met him and recognized in him the minister whom his ancestor had selected as the only man…

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