蓝祺儿 is Jade's Chinese name. It means precious blue jade. It's pronounced as lan2 qi2 er.
There are two folds to this name. The jade part is easy. There are so many different Chinese characters that mean jade. I picked the word qi祺 because it means the best grade of jade, precious jade.
Also Lanqier is the name of one of my favorite Chinese princesses in the Qing dynasty. She's a free-style princess, which is very unusual in the dynasties. Princesses are supposed to be very boring because they have to follow a million different rules in the palace and be proper at all times. But princess Lanqier is very much free-style. She's super smart, incredibly beautiful (thanks to her gorgeous concubine mother), independent, good to her parents and kind and generous to her servants. Because of her many good attributes and uniqueness, she's most favored by her dad, the emperor, among the thousand other princesses.
I hope my baby girl will grow up to be like Princess Lanqier, smart and strong!
WE love you, baby girl!
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