The ritual use of jade dominated China for millennia, and Qing rulers preserved the tradition, using jade for royal documents ...

A jade carving themed on "spring waters and fall ... who lived during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) and whose explorations westward helped establish the ancient Silk Road.

and was wrapped in "jade clothes sewn with gold thread." Tombs of emperors in the Han Dynasty were marked by earth mounds packed into square shapes with level tops. Tombs from that time are called ...