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.

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 ...

Other items on display are a jar from the Yangshao culture of 5,000BC to 3,000BC that features plant motifs and a Hongshan period jade dragon (4,500BC to 3,000BC), believed to be one of the ...

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 ...