A lovely sunrise for very exciting day!!!
We were off to "step on Great Wall"!!!!
But, first....a stop at a Jade Factory.
No, this isn't the Jade Factory, just a really cool building....
THIS is the Jade Factory...
Jade fountain and wall art
Solid jade ship
Working on a small jade piece
Our guide explaining the difference between jade and jadeite. If you want a piece of jade jewelry, make sure its jadeite, as jadeite is stronger than jade.
The steps of making a Family Ball... begins with a block of jade, which is rounded into a ball. Each layer is then carved from the outside, one layer for each generation. The most layers carved has been five.
More solid jade creatures
Lucky Frog
An Urn
After our time to look and shop, we were off to the wall!!!!
Along the way, we started seeing snow!!!
They'd had a pretty big snowfall a few days earlier and the Chinese soldiers were out shoveling.
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