Gold rings inlaid with amethyst stone were known in the Roman world, and the ring may have belonged to a member of the elites who lived in the city as early as the 3rd century CE.

Hu Xin, born in 1957, is an inheritor of Gold Lacquer Inlay art. She entered the Beijing Gold Lacquer Inlay Co., Ltd. in 1976 after graduation to learn color painting from senior master Liu Xiheng.