This work which is almost 100% similar to real Chinese cabbage is made of jade. The intimate theme, white vegetable body and green leaves all make people feel familiar and close. Don't forget to look at the two insects that stay on the vegetable leaves. They are katydids and locusts, which means many children.

This work was originally placed in Yonghe Palace in the Forbidden City, which was the bedroom of the concubine Jin Fei of Emperor Guangxu. Therefore, some people speculate that this device is Jin Fei's dowry to symbolize her innocence and many children.

Although the material of jadeite and the shape of cabbage were popular in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the themes of cabbage and grass insects were common in professional grass insect paintings from Yuan Dynasty to early Ming Dynasty, and they have always been auspicious themes welcomed by the people. In addition, cabbage leaf vegetables are also

Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, used this as a metaphor for the harsh political environment and the lack of talents. In the tradition of literati painting, it is also cited as the subject of painting to express similar feelings and secretly persuade politicians to be fatuous.

In an imperial poem entitled Tiaohe Jade Carving Frost Inserting Pine Flowers, written in the 40th year of Qianlong (1775), Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, as an emperor, was wary of the tradition that garden officials in Du Fu's poems did not know that fine dishes were compared to artistic admonitions. There is a cloud in the poem: "hetian produces jade, so he joined hands and Wujiang made the ingredients and made the utensils properly." Antique cooking is a new thing, but what if the atmosphere is enhanced? The leaves are wrapped in roots and the heart is empty. Elegant flower arrangement is a cauliflower. Peach and Sydney are shy and graceful. People don't have such beautiful colors, art exhorts or smiles at me. "

However, I believe that both the craftsmen in this palace workshop and the jade craftsmen who make jade cabbage are just creativity and skills, which are created to cater to the preferences of sponsors, and because they have not left relevant information records, they have left more imagination space for the audience.