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 China said in a Sept. 23 Xinhua news release.

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 ...

HongShan Capital acquires majority stake in Marshall Group valuing company at 1.1 billion euros Transaction includes sale of Telia's 9.6% stake for 1.15 billion Swedish crowns HongShan to enhance ...

Underlying the use of jade dragons was a sophisticated ritual system developed by Hongshan society. According to Jia Xiaobing, researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of ...

BEIJING, Dec. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Just as the Yellow and the Yangtze river basins are seen by archaeologists and historians as the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, so too is the West ...