[2] For example, the Jadeite Cabbage has been called the "most famous masterpiece" of the entire National Palace Museum,[3] and along with the Meat-Shaped Stone and the Mao Gong ding, is today called one of the Three Treasures of the National Palace Museum, a redesignation from several less accessible, infrequently-displayed works.

[1] The figure was carved from a single piece of half-white, half-green jadeite which contained numerous imperfections such as cracks and discolored blotches.

[5] The sculpture has been considered an allegory of female virtue with the white stalk symbolizing purity, the leaves denoting fertility and abundance, and the locust and katydid representing children.

In fact, the Chinese bush cricket is a singing insect artificially raised and used during the Qing dynasty for entertaining guests at the palace banquet.

[1][3] Following the fall of the Qing Empire in the Chinese Revolution of 1911, the sculpture became part of the collection of the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City.