The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2639 (1)

Chapter 2418 (1)

Among the gold-inlaid jade items I bought, two pendants were of better quality. Both had thick gold lettering on the back of the jade, suggesting a higher gold leaf content. The other gold-inlaid jade ornaments only had "pure gold" or "24K gold" marked on the back, and some even indicated the jade material as jadeite or Hetian jade.

The jade in those ornaments all look pretty much the same, even the colors are similar. Even if they are natural jade, they are the most common ones and have little value.

Many years ago, when I went to some shopping malls to look at gold shops, I saw high-end jewelry made of real gold inlaid with jade. It used one or a few grams of pure gold, and the jade was of good quality. It looked like a good product, and the price was several thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan. The weight of gold used was marked, which meant that it was equivalent to using one thousand milligrams or several thousand milligrams, rather than just a few tens of milligrams of gold leaf.

Of the mid-to-low-end gold-inlaid jade jewelry I bought, one pendant was a ruyi (a traditional Chinese scepter symbolizing good fortune) with red sapphire accents. After touching it several times, some of the gold foil at the edges chipped off. I haven't worn it; it's just sitting on the control panel under the lamp.

Another gold-inlaid jade pendant, featuring a Pixiu design, was the author's favorite among the items. Its quality was the best of the ten, yet it wasn't chosen by any other customer. Apparently, similar or identical pieces had already been taken. Seeing that piece at such a reasonable price, the author bought it without hesitation. Even at a price of two or three hundred yuan, let alone a hundred or so, it wasn't expensive. In some shops, similar-sized pieces might sell for several hundred yuan.

I'm using a porcelain white phone, and instead of a patterned case, I'm using a transparent one. Inside the case, next to the two cameras, there's a gold-inlaid jade gourd design. Below the phone, there's a gold foil lucky charm. Thanks to the transparent case, these two small ornaments won't fall off.

That phone has a 64-megapixel main camera but only a 2-megapixel depth sensor, which is just for show. It doesn't even have an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, and its camera quality is worse than the previous generation of phones.

Some new budget smartphones even have bizarre designs with fake cameras, featuring only a single camera and no secondary lenses to reduce manufacturing costs. Some screens still use resolutions from over a decade ago—not 1080, let alone 1.5 or 2 quartz—but still using 720 ppi, which seems outdated. You really need to look around more; some digital products have poor technology and aren't exactly cheap.

On the outside of the phone case, I still used a Doraemon-patterned phone ring, still strung with a string to a jade safety buckle containing small amber beads. After a long time, when the string wore down, I would spend ten yuan to go to a jewelry store and ask the clerk to re-string the phone ring so it could continue to be used.

That phone ring has been used for several years; it was used on my previous phone. When I got a new phone, I continued using the same ring, but the adhesive wasn't strong enough, so I used a glue stick to increase the adhesion. I also glued the Pikachu-patterned ring to the back of my old phone's transparent case.

Many mobile phones weigh over 200 grams, which is suitable for holding for a long time. It is suitable to attach a ring to the back of the phone case to make it more stable to hold and less likely to fall. It is useful and therefore commonly used.

After obtaining the gold-inlaid jade Pixiu, I kept it for a while before deciding to use it and see how to match it.