As soon as the Spirit-Communicating Jade was lost, Baoyu was beside himself, and the whole Jia household was in uproar.
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Baoyu is born with it in his mouth, hence his name 宝玉 'precious jade'. The jade is the stone left over when the goddess 女娲 mended the sky, which gives the novel its other title, The Story of the Stone.
