Checked content

File:Chinese Xin Shape Jewelry from Ming Dynasty Tombs.jpg

Summary

Description
English: This piece of jewelry was one of the most beautiful antiques excavated from the Dingling, one of the w:Ming Dynasty Tombs. It was made during the w:Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) in China, by using gold, ruby, pearl and other gemstones, and of the size of an adult human's palm. It is of the shape of a Chinese character '心' (read Xin), which literally means heart. This photo was taken at the Dingling Museum.
中文: 此金首饰出土于 明十三陵 定陵,由黄金、红宝石、珍珠等打造而成。其形为汉字“心”的形状,甚为别致。此照拍摄于定陵博物馆。
Date 3 April 2010
Source Own work
Author Mlogic

Camera location

40° 17′ 34.69″ N, 116° 13′ 16.44″ E

View this and other nearby images on: Google Maps - Google Earth - OpenStreetMap ( Info)
GIMP Icon.svg
This raster graphics image was created with GIMP.

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  • share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

You may select the license of your choice.
The following pages on Schools Wikipedia link to this image (list may be incomplete):

Metadata

Background information

Schools Wikipedia was created by children's charity SOS Childrens Villages. More than 2 million people benefit from the global charity work of SOS Children's Villages, and our work in 133 countries around the world is vital to ensuring a better future for vulnerable children. Will you help another child today?