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In Taiwan, there is a famous art piece at the National Palace Museum near Taipei that is a carved, jade sculpture of a type of Chinese cabbage.

If you look closely, you can see that carved into the leaves of the sculpture is a katydid locust. This piece of art was originally thought to be a wedding gift that symbolized fertility. When you gaze upon it, you almost believe that it is a real cabbage. The details are amazing!

The carving was done using the natural colors of the jadeite, turning the green parts into the cabbage leaves and the white parts into the stalk.