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Jadeite Cabbage

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The J-Dite Cabbage

It's unclear who made the cabbage or exactly when they made it. We do not know much about what happened to it. It seems to have first appeared at the end of the 19th century in China's Forbidden City. Even the insects on top of it are symbolic. Some curators, they say that because grasshopper and locusts can have many offspring, people believe that they appeared on the top of the cabbage.

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