I purchased Jade earrings for Madalyn and a Jade peace necklace for Josephine. It is customary for babies to wear jade. One type turns darker the longer it is worn and more so with warm skin. Therefore when girls marry and leave their families a jade bangle is passed to them from their mother. When the girl visits family (usually only one time per year at Chinese New Year), the girl's family checks the bangle. If it is the same, the family worries she is not having "good life" with her husband's family. If it is dark, they feel she is happy and healthy.
I'm not able access my blog from here. The government bans many sites, including Facebook, so maybe this is banned also. Some of my email posts are not going through. So if one is duplicated that I why...
3 more days until we meet the reason for our trip!!!
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On the bus ride, our tour guide, Lydia, told us all about Chinese culture and customs. She told us about lucky numbers and unlucky numbers. The Chinese will pay more money for license tags, cell phone numbers, apartment addresses, etc with lucky numbers!
She also told of ways the government is controlling traffic which includes rotating which license tag numbers can drive each day if the week! So on the lucky number days, there is much less traffic on the street!
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