Product Description

OLD CHINESE WHITE JADE CICADA PENDANT DEPICTING A BOY’S FACE.

BROWN RUSSET INCLUSIONS AND VEINS.

SIZE: 5.5 CM LONG, 2.75 CM WIDE, 1.5 CM HIGH.
NOTE: CICADA IS CONSIDERED TO BE A SYMBOL OF GOOD REBIRTH IN CHINESE CULTURE. ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT THE ANCIENT CHINESE REGARDED CICADA (CHÁN) AS SYMBOLS OF REBIRTH OR IMMORTALITY (4, 12, 16) IN THE SAME WAY AS THE EARLY EGYPTIANS THOUGHT OF THE SACRED SCARAB.

CICADAS LIVE IN THE EARTH AS A LARVA AND AFTER THE DEATH LIKE PUPA STAGE, EMERGING AS A FREE-FLYING INSECT. THE CICADA WAS FROM AN EARLY DATE COMPARED WITH THE SOUL WHICH LIBERATES ITSELF FROM THE BODY IN DEATH. IN THIS CONTEXT THE MULTIPLE SHEDDING OF SHELL OF THE CICADA SYMBOLIZES THE MANY STAGES OF TRANSFORMATION REQUIRED OF A PERSON BEFORE ALL ILLUSIONS HAVE BEEN BROKEN AND ONE REACHES ENLIGHTENMENT.

MOST FENG SHUI EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT A CICADA IS A FENG SHUI SYMBOL OF IMMORTALITY AND PROTECTION AGAINST BACKSTABBERS. THIS IS LARGELY DUE TO THE FACT THAT A CICADA IS AN INSECT THAT CAN LIVE UP TO 17 TO 20 YEARS, IT’S A KIND OF INSECT THAT HAS THE LONGEST LIFE SPAN. FURTHERMORE, IT IS SAID THAT A CICADA’S LARGE EYES ALSO WARNS IT OF POSSIBLE PREDATORS, THUS MANY FENG SHUI EXPERTS WILL ASSOCIATE IT AS A PROTECTION AGAINST POLITICKING.

JADE OBJECTS IN THE SHAPE OF CICADAS WERE POPULAR FROM HAN DYNASTY, WHICH AT THE TIME ADORNED THE HATS OF HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIALS. ITS DURING THE HAN DYNASTY, CHINESE STARTED A PRACTICE OF LAYING JADE CICADA ON THE TONGUE OF A CORPSE AS A PART OF A THEIR BURIAL CEREMONY.