Chopsticks, which are roughly uniform in size throughout China, can be made of a variety of materials, including bamboo, wood, lacquer, jade, ivory, plastic, aluminum, silver and gold.

全国各地的筷子大小基本一样，而所用的材料的种类则各有不同，所选材料有竹子、木材、漆器、玉石、象牙、塑料、铝、银、金等。

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Li Kebei in her 160-year-old ancestral home that now doubles as a museum. The Li family once traded jade into China from nearby Myanmar.

图为李可珮老人在她有着160年历史的祖屋里，她的祖屋同时也被用作博物馆。李家过去从事从缅甸运入中国的翡翠生意。

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China is famous for its jade jewelry.

中国的玉首饰很有名。

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It relaunched the line last fall, adding new items such as a one-of-a-kind diamond-and-jade Serpenti necklace geared to the tastes of China's wealthy.

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In her spare time, Lo quietly collected Chinese jewelry, especially "finger pieces, " including jade ornaments, precious stones and items linked to China's ancient times.

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In the absence of any competition from the West, China has cheerfully plundered Myanmar's bountiful reserves of hard wood, jade, oil, gas and much else, usually with little regard for the environment or the well-being of those Burmese who stood in their way.

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