"The jade dragon of Hongshan culture marks another round of long-distance prehistoric jade diffusion in China, following the southward spread of northeast Asian jue rings." At the 2026 Conference on ...

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 Liaohe ...

At a Neolithic site in northern China, archaeologists have unearthed a large jade dragon inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. The dragon was one of more than 100 artifacts that have been discovered in recent ...

Archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb in Chifeng and found a 5,000-year-old jade dragon from the Hongshan culture, China officials said. Screengrab from China Daily's Facebook post In the sandy ...

BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China Daily: Cultural heritage is a living dialogue connecting the past, the present and a shared future, participants at a cultural event said ...

On the green hills of western Liaoning province, a newly excavated platform has revealed that Hongshan people could determine true north and south with remarkable precision 5,600 years ago. This ...

In the vast, windswept plains of Inner Mongolia, where the wind howls like an overenthusiastic choir in desperate need of a conductor, and the sun blazes down with the tact of an irate traffic warden, ...

Jade, is also known as ''Yu” in Chinese, which has many symbolic meanings in the traditional culture, such as beauty, nobility and purity. ''Yu” is a common object in many Chinese people’s lives from ...

It's great to take something old and spice it up for the next generation, but some things are attractive simply for how old they really are. An exhibition of jade artifacts belonging to the Hongshan ...

"We have strengthened legislative protection for Hongshan culture's Niuheliang site in Chaoyang and stepped up academic research by setting up the Hongshan Culture Research Institute, and promoted ...