But one item stood out: a large jade dragon. The 5,000-year-old carving was the “largest jade dragon ever discovered from the Hongshan culture,” the State Council of the People’s Republic of ...

Around 6,500 to 4,900 years ago, a late Neolithic culture called Hongshan thrived here, marked by its use of delicate jade ware and the initial totems of the Chinese dragon. Both were of symbolic ...

Featuring over 120 meticulously selected artifacts, the exhibition is divided into five thematic sections, showcasing China's ...

Hong Kong Palace Museum programme inspires youth to grow cultural ecosystem Highlights of the exhibition are a cloud-shaped jade plaque from the Hongshan culture, which spanned 4,500BC to 3,000BC ...

Yet, the widespread appearance of jade dragons as ritual objects indicates that a unified social belief system had been widely accepted within and beyond the realm of Hongshan culture, Guo says.