Jade Spade for Collecting Ganoderma
Song Dynasty
H: 15.8 cm, w: 5.7 cm, t:0.8cm. There is a hole, d: 1cm, at one end, and the other end is sharpened for shoveling earth. There is an inscription on the blade in seal characters: "Carved from the essence of jade, it accompanies me as I travel the hills and mountains, collecting ganoderma and flowers to yield immortality. "The Chinese mushroom of immortality was Gano derma lucidum. (Collection of Museum for History of Medicine, Shanghai University of TCM.)