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When my wife and I arrived in Shanghai as scheduled, we met with our friendly interpreter, Mr. Sha, who advised us of the severe hotel room shortage in Shanghai. He had secured for us the only room left in the city - Mr. Nixon's room in the Ching Chiang Hotel, where Bob Hope had also stayed during his visit to China. Our "room" turned out to be an apartment with two huge bedrooms, a reception room, living room, dining room, sunroom, kitchen, and attendant's rooms. The next day we moved into a similar suite but took only the bedroom, as we didn't have a large enough entourage to make use of the rest of the rooms.
Later, when we arrived in Wuxi, after a short train ride from Shanghai, our friendly interpreter met us with the strange news that there was a severe shortage of hotel rooms in Wuxi. But he was able to secure one room for us - a suite on the top floor overlooking the lake and the park.
Each night in our hotel at Wuxi we sat at a table "reserved for lady who eats three plates of steamed greens." My wife astonished the local gentry with her propensity for eating salad. She switched to steamed greens in the interest of hygiene. We tried the Mao Tai rice wine and couldn't finish the first thimbleful!
Their travel system worked well. We were handed about carefully from city to city, were met by an interpreter and were escorted to the sights by our driver. We also wandered freely through the cities, ate in the recommended restaurants, and generally felt like V.I.P.s. Tour groups looked at us with astonishment and outright jealously at times. We truly did feel for them in the restrictive confines of their packaged tours.
We visited a jade and ivory carving factory, a research center for needlepoint, a doll-making factory where their current project was thousands of Santa Claus pencil sharpeners, a silk thread factory, a people's commune, a cloth-weaving factory, and a tea plantation. We wandered through dozens of famous parks and gardens, took boat trips on the lakes, visited friendship stores and antique stores and browsed through city center shopping areas, department stores, bookstores, bazaars and markets.
Between cities, we were "shown off" as the interpreter said, and "met" in special waiting rooms (with tea, of course). The train offered soft seats and a plant on each lace-covered table. We enjoyed a thermos of tea for one jaio (about 7 cents US). On a five-hour trip between Wuxi and Kwangchow, we shared a compartment with a Chinese honeymoon couple from Hong Kong. They asked us to share a banquet in the dining car, and we were served one chicken, one duck, one fish, a plate of fried oysters, a plate of steamed vegetables, soup, scrambled eggs with something mysterious in it, beer and tea. It was enough for six, but hardy travelers that we were, we made do with it.
The finale was the trade show in Kwangchow. Soon we would exit to Hong Kong and then return home after almost two months of travel.
As we expected, Kwangchow was a bustling city. Again, there were no hotel rooms available except our nice corner room with a porch, overlooking the huge garden. People from all over the world, with their pink badges flapping in the wind, visited the show from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. The jewelry section had discussion rooms similar to those we encountered in Beijing, but flooded with buyers and tons of merchandise. We met some old friends from the Company in Beijing and two soft-goods buyers from Phoenix, Arizona.
We toured the rest of the fair again and again to see the machinery, planes, boats, medical equipment, foods, medicines, textiles, clothing, metals, electronics, watches and much else. The Chinese are good merchants and had retail shops scattered all over the trade fair for single item purchases. Money exchange desks were everywhere with "Visa" signs hung over the counters. We tried to buy some gift boxes but someone in Los Angeles had an exclusive.
We did not purchase any jewelry at the fair, as the selection in Beijing was sufficient for our first foray into the People's Republic of China. From Kwangchow, we hopped a 20-minute flight to Hong Kong on China Air Lines. As we returned to Arizona, we were already looking forward to returning to China the next year.
And that we did!
Frederick Fisher, author and retired Gemologist, traveled widely in the Far East with his late wife, Eileen, collecting treasures to sell in their Arizona jewelry stores. Confucius Jade, his first novel, tells of a mystical jade carving which guides descendants of Confucius to a bidding war among three billionaires who jealously covet the priceless jade for its promise of long life and redemption. For more, visit http://www.frederickfisher.com.
Best Way to Take Care of Jade Jewelry
Jade is a spiritual jewelry, which has bright color and well texture. It requires people to maintain it carefully if want to keep its long-term color and transparency.
Jade has a strong toughness. Some consumers may misunderstand this characteristic and think it is not afraid to knock. But actually, jade also should be carefully maintained to keep it delicate. So in order to prevent cracking or smashing decorative body when wearing jade pieces, they had better avoid to collide with hard objects or drop from high-altitude position, in particular for those jade which have already have small cracks. Jade is very easy to crack after collision, though sometimes naked eyes can't see these vestiges, there have cracks inside, so that the economic value of jade will be effected.
Avoid to storage at high temperature so as not to lose warm water and affect the texture and color of jade. Currently, many natural jade material types on the market which have experienced optimization process fear of high temperature. Don't wear this kind of jade at cooking place or other high temperature areas, especially jade bracelet. Otherwise, it will oxidize easily for the infillings in jade.
Jade jewelry is a symbol of elegance and holy. If it contacts oil long time, the oil will set in the surface of jade, and affecting jade jewelry glory. Sometimes, the dirty grease will fill in the jade along with cracks. Therefore, be sure to keep clean when people wear jade, it generally ought to clean once in a while. Clean it with soft cloth in neutral detergent and wipe with soft white cloth after it dries. Those dyed cloth or fiber cloth are inappropriate so that to keep the original quality of jade. Mosaic of jade Jewelry should be cleaned regularly to keep jewelry clean and shiny.
After carved, jade jewelry often have a wax on its surface to increase glamorous touch. Even without waxing, jade jewelry should avoid long time exposure with acid and alkali for they are multi-mineral aggregates. For example, various detergents, soap, pesticides, cosmetics, perfume, etc. will corrupt jade, and cleaning them up in time if stain careless.
Jade jewelry should wear usually, and don't put it in box for long time, or it will lose its water character. In addition, don't put it in your box with other jewelry to avoid to fray.
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Help! My favorite necklace broke and I need to find a new one!?
I was in New Orleans las summer and was shopping in the open-air market and came across this hand-carved stone (possibly jade, maybe quartz) drama masks (comedy/tragedy) necklace. It was made out of one single piece of stone and it was my absolute favorite necklace. I received many complements on it. I got up out of my chair and the string fell off and the necklace broke. I would love to know where I can find another one even similar to it not made out of silver or gold. Please help me!
The actual stone cracked in half, I'm aware that if the string broke i could just buy another one.
You could just restring the old one. Go to Jo-Ann fabric or Michael's and they'll have the string you need to just keep your old one.
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