In "Nine Songs", it is written that "four horses are pounded in two rounds, and jade drums are assisted", in which "jade fork" refers to the drumstick of jade head;
In Li Sao, "I am ashamed to break the Qiongzhi, and I think that one meter long is fine and graceful; Riding a flying dragon is a spare part, but the miscellaneous Yao elephant thinks it is a car ... Here, "Qiongzhi" refers to beautiful jade, "Qiongmi" refers to jade scraps, and "Yaoxiang" refers to the ivory of beautiful jade, which depicts the grand momentum and expresses the poet's romantic feelings through the beauty of precious jade.
The "Double Beads" and "Ancient Poetry Persuades Your Wife to Marry" in Yuefu's "Zhan" are both bright moon pearls, and their mouths are like cows. "Pearl" and "Dan" here refer to jewelry, and "Dani" refers to ruby; Cao Zhi's beauty piece "Jade and silk are always safe", in which "jade" and "silk" are ancient engagement gifts; "My hands are as bright as jade" in "Xizhou Qu", and jade is used to describe the whiteness of my hands ... These poems all show that gems and jade articles at that time have been widely circulated among the people, and the types and styles of jewelry are more diverse, which have penetrated into all aspects of people's daily life.
William Wang's "Liangzhou Ci" also contains the sentence of "grapes, wine and night pearls". Li Shangyin's "Jinse" refers to men shedding pearl-like tears at the moon-blue sky and blue sea breathing their jade at the sun ... Li Bai uses "bright moon and pearl" as a metaphor for talent, and Xin Qiji uses "high curative value and long life" as a metaphor ... especially a magical "Dream of Red Mansions".
In modern times, China's once brilliant poems about gems are not satisfactory, and the poems about gem culture are rare and almost hard to see-this is a pity in China culture.