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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 302566, member: 2844"]Beautiful Bi pendant, fathand. Lovely piece of jade.</p><p>The Bi disc is a symbol of heaven. In ancient China it was also a symbol of authority - which came from heaven, and high morals - which a person in authority appointed by heaven should have.</p><p>Bi combined with a swastika is a very good and auspicious symbol to the Chinese</p><p>We have always sold most of our jade (back) to Chinese, so I wouldn't worry about the swastika. Obviously they're not bothered about it at all, to them it is auspicious.</p><p>In the early 20th century the swastika was extremely popular in western countries as well, as the medal shows. It is very sad that such a beautiful ancient symbol was, and is, abused in such a way.</p><p>Jade Bi pendants with 14k gold on Etsy:</p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=jade%20bi%20pendant%2014k%20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=jade%20bi%20pendant%2014k%20" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=jade bi pendant 14k </a></p><p><br /></p><p>About the abuse of the Swastika: A.H., who personally designed the Nazi flag, was a dark-haired Austrian Celt. It was through extremely unfortunate circumstance that he managed to convince so many Germans (a mix of mainly Celtic, Germanic and Slavic) that there was such a thing as a 'superior' Germanic race of blue-eyed blonde-haired people. To which he himself clearly didn't belong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 302566, member: 2844"]Beautiful Bi pendant, fathand. Lovely piece of jade. The Bi disc is a symbol of heaven. In ancient China it was also a symbol of authority - which came from heaven, and high morals - which a person in authority appointed by heaven should have. Bi combined with a swastika is a very good and auspicious symbol to the Chinese We have always sold most of our jade (back) to Chinese, so I wouldn't worry about the swastika. Obviously they're not bothered about it at all, to them it is auspicious. In the early 20th century the swastika was extremely popular in western countries as well, as the medal shows. It is very sad that such a beautiful ancient symbol was, and is, abused in such a way. Jade Bi pendants with 14k gold on Etsy: [URL='https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=jade%20bi%20pendant%2014k%20']https://www.etsy.com/nl/search?q=jade bi pendant 14k [/URL] About the abuse of the Swastika: A.H., who personally designed the Nazi flag, was a dark-haired Austrian Celt. It was through extremely unfortunate circumstance that he managed to convince so many Germans (a mix of mainly Celtic, Germanic and Slavic) that there was such a thing as a 'superior' Germanic race of blue-eyed blonde-haired people. To which he himself clearly didn't belong.[/QUOTE]
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