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Chinese Tomb Jade.
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so used as an emblem of new life. Dr. Laufer has called attention to this meaning in his well-known Jade, p. 301. The fact that the ancient Chinese shared in the world-wide recognition of the transformation of a pupa into a winged insect as symbolic of resurrection may be proved from many written sources, notably Taoist texts.