However, it is not necessarily the machine made golden jewelleries have the better quality. Machine crafted golden jewelleries are often more brittle than the hand-made one, meaning they will be more difficult to be reshaped after made. With the decreasing number of professional craftmen in gold industry to hand craft the golden Dragon & Phoenix jewelleries, the price of hand-crafted Dragon & Phoenix jewelleries had became increasingly expensive.
Dragon & Phoenix Jewellery Forms
There are many forms of Dragon & Phoenix Jewelleries in the market, including bangles, rings, necklaces and earrings. They all carry the same meaning in Chinese wedding.
Wah Chan Dragon & Phoenix Bangle
Bangle
The most common form of Dragon & Phoenix jewellery in Chinese tradition, especially in Cantonese tradition. It usually comes in a pair, representing the couple, "成双成对”, and crafted with dragon and phoenix, most of the time crafted with double happiness “囍”， or with a fire ball or crystal, representing "龙凤戏珠“。
Rings
Dragon & Phoenix ring, or wedding band, sometimes have a pair of rings which each was crafted with Dragon or Phoenix, where Dragon ring is for the bridegroom and Phoenix ring is for the bride, which pair them together.
DeGem Dragon & Phoenix Ring
Wah Chan Dragon & Phoenix Ring
Wah Chan Dragon & Phoenix Necklace
Necklace
Dragon & Phoenix necklace, which at many times can be made from other materials, like obsidian. Obsidian Dragon & Phoenix necklace normally has a bangua in the centre. However, golden Dragon & Phoenix necklace is better in marriage.
DeGem Dragon & Phoenix Necklace
Dragon & Phoenix Earrings
Like Dragon & Phoenix rings, earrings also normally exists as a pair, with each crafted with either dragon or phoenix, symbolizing a pair. Some earrings will have one or more long chains connecting the dragon or phoenix.
Wah Chan Dragon & Phoenix Earrings
Poh Heng Dragon & Phoenix Earrings
Some retails will sell the Dragon & Phoenix jewelleries in a package of four, which is the bangle, rings, necklace and earrings, as Si Dian Jin.
However, some factors had made the Dragon & Phoenix Si Dian Jin less popular among the customers. Besides from the extremely expensive prices of four, it is important to note that Si Dian Jin is the tradition of Chinese TeohChew people, different from the bangle.
As the younger generation now always seek for more and more simple in daily life, including their marriage adornment, normally they will pick only one out of the four jewelleries.
Si Dian Jin
Poh Heng Dragon & Phoenix Si Dian Jin
