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All Bi-Disks are in principle flat disks with a central opening in the middle. Narrowly associated with the use of the Bi-Disk, is the cultural signification of the JADE itself. In all Chinese cultures the Jade was valued highly because of his physical features, like his hardness and thus obliged durability, his colour variety, his transparency and his beauty after polishing. The shape, size, use and meaning, including the symbolism, changed in the course of the millenniums and was respectively accompanied by a various meaning and valuation under the different dynasties. For example in the ZHOU Dynasty (ca. 11th BC-256 BC) the Bi-Disk was seen as symbol of the sky and/or the sun. The valency of Bi-Disks went so far, that in the eventuality of a war, the inferior had to hand over the winner its Bi-Disks as sign of the submission. The summary of old ritual texts has recognized, that the Bi-Disk as sky symbol, should accompany the dead into the sky, in which these rites were only left for the aristocratic class. |
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