{"product_id":"white-chalcedony-koi-lotus-necklace","title":"White Chalcedony Koi Lotus Necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo fish and a lotus is not a scene. It is a sentence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLotus is \u003cstrong\u003e蓮\u003c\/strong\u003e and fish is \u003cstrong\u003e魚\u003c\/strong\u003e, and in Chinese both are puns. 蓮 sounds like 連, one year following another, and 魚 sounds like 餘, what is left over when the year is done. Put the two together and the pendant reads \u003cstrong\u003e連年有餘\u003c\/strong\u003e: plenty, year after year. It is painted on New Year prints and stitched onto quilts, and it is a wish for a surplus that keeps coming back rather than a windfall that arrives once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe stone is white chalcedony, which in Chinese is called 玉髓, jade marrow.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is the waxy, close-grained quartz that fills the hollows left inside rock, and it gets there slowly, one thin layer laid over the last until the space is full. Which is the same idea the fish and the lotus are making. This is a stone for money that accrues quietly, and it has never been the stone for a windfall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor anyone who would like next year to be easier than this one.\u003c\/strong\u003e That is why it is a standard gift at Chinese New Year, and it carries just as well to a birthday, a new job or a house move, because the wish is aimed at the year ahead and not at the day you hand it over. Give it to someone who has just had a hard twelve months and the meaning does the talking for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also quiet enough to wear every day. Nobody reads the pun unless they know it, so what most people see is a white stone and a gold lotus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWearing it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeep it away from perfume and hairspray, which dull a gold finish faster than anything else, and take it off before swimming. A dry cloth if it clouds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStone:\u003c\/strong\u003e White chalcedony, 玉髓\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMotif:\u003c\/strong\u003e Two fish around an enamelled lotus, 連年有餘\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gold-toned setting and chain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBail:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lotus bud\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLenth:\u003c\/strong\u003e 45cm \/ 18in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIntention:\u003c\/strong\u003e Abundance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural stone, so the cloudiness and markings differ on every disc\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Earth Tibet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52650849763630,"sku":"200000226:29;200000639:200661028","price":40.96,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/4807\/7102\/files\/white-chalcedony-koi-lotus-necklace-3.webp?v=1789629415","url":"https:\/\/www.earthtibet.com\/products\/white-chalcedony-koi-lotus-necklace","provider":"Earth Tibet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}