There are five completely separate layers to this. All carved from one piece of jade. The second they showed one of these to us, most of the band wanted one. There's a dragon and a pheonix sorta carved on the outside. S'posedly represents a family or something... I could care less. All I care about is that it's damn cool.

It was somewhat awkward to buy because they had them at opposite ends - and aggressively sold by different people - of the store in the jade factory. So I would pick a favorite from one group, then walk over to the other group and try to compare. Also, the salespeople seemed to constantly change their recommendations... by the time I had made my purchase, I think they had argued that each piece there was "the best one!" (this included changing their opinions of whether green jade or white jade was better... I'm pretty sure the correct answer in this case - and there is a correct answer according to the jade experts, although it varies by the different types of jade - is green)