Since jiaozi is in the shape of ancient Chinese gold or silver ingots (银锭), it symbolizes wealth (象征着财富).

由于饺子的形状类似于中国古代的金银锭，因而象征着财富。

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ANCIENT Phoenicians stored their drinking water in silver vessels, but not for aesthetic reasons.

古老的腓尼基人将他们的饮用水储存在白银容器中，但这并不是为了美观。

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Medieval reliquaries are usually made of luxurious materials: gold, silver and rock crystal. They are inset with ancient cameos and intaglios, precious and semi-precious stones and enamels.

中世纪的圣髑盒大都由黄金、白银或是水晶制成，用料奢华，缀以玛瑙浮雕、宝石、半宝石，包以瓷釉。

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Sikeliote craftsmen became the masters of the ancient world at carving microscopically detailed dies from which gold and silver coins were stamped in a great variety of intricate images not just of gods and humans, but of flying four-horse chariots and great eagles devouring their prey.

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Potash is a soft rock, which is extracted from sedimentary sea beds formed by evaporation of ancient seas, which is mined via conventional shaft mining like gold and silver.

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The British forces left with more than 500 ancient parchment manuscripts, two gold crowns, crosses and chalices in gold, silver and copper, religious icons, royal and ecclesiastic vestments as well as shields and arms made between the 14th and 19th centuries.

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