The Jade Pig Dragon belongs to what cultural heritage of the Neolithic Age
The Jade Pig Dragon belongs to the Hongshan Culture of the New Age Era, and the jade artifacts found in Hongshan and other places are also known as the Jade Beasts_, which are considered to be the earliest prototypes of dragons, but due to the peculiar appearance, the outside world is also very controversial, and it is finally defined that the Jade Pig Dragon is an embryo of the early animals rather than a specific kind of animal, and it is found that when it was unearthed, there were two round holes on its When unearthed, it was found to have two round holes on its back and was located on the chest of the deceased. Judging from the situation at the time, it is highly probable that the Jade Pig Dragon was used as an accessory. Cultural relics of the Hongshan Culture period, collected in Jianping County, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. Now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
The jade pig dragon is styled as a pig head and dragon body, and there are two main types of jade pig dragons: the _shaped jade pig dragon and the C-shaped jade pig dragon. The Jade Porcupine Dragon in the Liaoning Provincial Museum is the _shaped Jade Porcupine Dragon, with a height of 15.7 centimeters, a width of 10.4 centimeters, and a thickness of 4.3 centimeters, and it is the largest and most well-formed piece of the _shaped Jade Porcupine Dragon from the Hongshan Culture known to date.
The Jade Pig Dragon is a masterpiece of the Hongshan Culture jade artifacts, and this one is one of the largest and most well-formed of the known Hongshan Culture Jade Pig Dragons. White serpentine foliated rock, fat head and big ears, round eyes, anterior protrusion of the muzzle, mouth slightly open, fangs exposed, the body curled up like a ring, flat round and heavy, with a perforation on the back. Jade pig dragons were unearthed in tombs and worn in pairs on the chests of tomb owners, symbols of social status, rank and power, and primitive ceremonial objects made according to certain specifications.
The remains of the Hongshan culture were first discovered in 1921. 1935 excavations were carried out at the site of Hongshan Hou in the eastern suburb of Chifeng, and the name of the Hongshan culture was proposed in 1954, and from the 1970s onwards, a large-scale archaeological survey was carried out in the Zhaoda League of northwestern Liaoning Province (present-day Chifeng City and the Chaoyang area), and nearly 1,000 sites were discovered. And the Songling Mountains and Nurulhu Mountains in the Lingyuan, Kazuo Dongshanzui, Jianping Niuheliang site group carried out large-scale excavations, so that the study of the Red Mountain culture has entered a new stage. 2014 Chifeng City and Chaoyang City *** with the signing of the "Red Mountain Culture Site Joint Declaration of the World Cultural Heritage Memorandum of Understanding," announced that it will be a joint bid for the Red Mountain culture.
The jade pig dragon in the Hongshan culture has a unique beauty, in the Hongshan culture unearthed a cultural relics, one of them is the most special, the whole is like a curled up dragon, but the head is designed in the shape of a pig, it is also known as the jade pig dragon, which is why we often say that we are the heir of the dragon, in the Jixi Mound around the altar of a number of round, these altars are made of stones piled up, and are divided into These altars are made of stone blocks and are divided into three circles, which is also an important basis for proving the continuity of Chinese culture for thousands of years. From this we can imagine that more than five thousand years ago in the West Liaohe River Basin has mastered the agricultural planting technology of the Hongshan people began to vigorously develop the agricultural economy, the population continues to increase, there is a wealth of things, so that part of the people can be separated from the agricultural production, to the road of specialized production, which promotes the division of labor in the handicraft industry, but also accelerated the development of cultural processes.