I am back to Singapore

Dear Yi Cheng Pen Lovers,

Gold may be the world acknowledged international hard currency, but within the context of millennia-old Chinese culture, jade is infinitely more precious. There is an ancient Chinese saying: “Gold may be evaluated, but jade is priceless.”

In the China of 8,000 years ago, jade was regarded as a distillation of the essences of heaven and earth, and hence sacred. Its dominant role within Chinese history and culture makes jade and jade craft a symbol of Chinese civilization. Whereas \Western pre-history is chronologically composed of the stone, iron and bronze ages, based on archeological artifacts, China’s, as defined by a Chinese sword forger from 2,000 years ago, is classified under stone, jade and bronze eras of weaponry. During the Shang (1600-100 BC) and Zhou (770-256 BC) dynasties, jade broadswords and halberds were regarded as the ultimate symbols of power.

Chinese ancients also wore jade as a sign of moral cultivation, evident in the saying that “A man of virtue does not remove jade from his person without good reason.” Confucius is believed to have likened jade’s pleasing smoothness to the human virtue of benevolence, its hardness to righteousness, its diversity of color to resourcefulness and its translucence to fidelity. In Chinese figurative speech jade is often associated with the womanly virtues of purity and chastity, the ideal woman being she who is “pure as jade and clear as ice.”

Yi Cheng is proud to present the Green Jade Fountain Pen with a two tone gold plated medium nib. This is a very smooth writer and I am offering a full refund plus return postage if you are not happy with its performances.

See this pen here:

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I am finally back to Singapore and resume my pen business for this while, so feel assure that you get a first class customer service.

Thank you

Alan Koo
Your Oriental Pen Specialist