The Chinese bi-disk is a great example of Spiritual belief that is used in Chinese cultures. The bi-disk is a carved, mostly rounded (Yu) jade disk with a hole that can be of various size. It is used as a status symbol as well as ritual or symbolic purposes. Jade was valued highly due to the physical features such as the hardness and durability, various colors, and the beauty of it once it was polished. (Henze, Ernst-Dieter) According to (Sayer) the ritual disk, or bi, was made sometime in the fourth or third century BCE. The earliest bi disks are found in burials and are dates around 4000 BCE and were thought to be part of the archaic paraphernalia of the shaman. The original meaning of the bi-disk is unknown but when the early one’s were
