Such exquisite jade work has been interpreted as "serving as a ritual implement, for use in serving the elite, so that obviously there was already a class structure at that time," argues Zhang Xuehai, director of the Shandong Institute of Archaeology.
如此精製的玉石推測是「作為禮器，為顯貴服務用的，顯然當時社會已有階級之分」，山東省文物考古研究所所長張學海說。