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Q: How many foreigners do you know who wear wooden bead bracelets or jade necklaces?
Post Spring Festival there is the usual influx of foreigners (new esl teachers, I guess) in this small city in the deep south. I have noticed that almost all of them have taken to wearing wooden bead bracelets and/or jade necklaces. Is it the same elsewhere?
when i met my wife she got us Dragon and phenix jade necklaces
And yes she had the dragon one .
once hers broke i didn't feel bad for taking mine off .
I wear a small jade Buddha.
Someone gave me a gift of a wood bead bracelet at the weekend, but I wont wear that.
No, I don't know too many foreigners with or without wooden bracelets.
What intrigues me, some Chinese don't wear the bracelet, but they roll it on the palm of the hand. Continuously for an hour...It must some kind of tai-chi massage or 'curse-go-away' exercise.
Jade thingy is kind of something very special in West. My gran had many jade rings and bracelets, and word between kids was 'she is loaded'.
In Anshan, Liaoning, there's a jade hill in the middle of DT, some 80 m high, and Chinese build huge house around it, so they aren't disturbed while they're digging. Inside the house is a museum and jade retail shop.
Nobody bought me anything, yet...out of jade.
me a little bit sometimes. the better wood bracelets/necklaces made from hi-grade Camphor wood can smell really nice, and even though I am about the biggest critic of TCM that there is, lots of people claim that there is some health benefits from being exposed to camphor. Probably got that reputation because camphor trees can get really old,,, I think even modern botanists will say a camphor tree can maybe live a 1000 years,,, or a long time anyway. They say the same thing about jade being good for your health of course, but as we all know in china, everything impacts your 'healthy' one way or another. I am still tripping out on the taboo associated with cold water. I love to watch their brains spin in circles when I try to explain to them that my mom made a pot of tea every morning my whole life, and then really watch them trip out when I try to explain 'Iced-tea'. lol
Scandinavian:
if you want the Chinese to fully trip out, then research when the cold water taboo started
Quiz: When did cold water get its sinister rep?
A) Last Century
B) 5000 years ago
Me ! Love engraved wooden bead braclet. A wonderful gift received here!
