Hongshan culture, a key Neolithic culture dating from 6,500 to 5,000 years ago, spanned what is today's Liaoning and Hebei provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

The site belongs to Hongshan culture, an agrarian Neolithic culture (millet was the grain of choice) that spread across large areas of China’s northeast between 4700 B.C.E. and 2900 B.C.E.

Hongshan culture is an important prehistoric archaeological culture dating back roughly 5,000 to 6,000 years. (Photo: Xinhua) ...

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.

Jade dragons are iconic of the Hongshan culture and symbolize the formation of over 5,000 years of Chinese civilization – dragon is a totem of the Chinese nation and, according to legend, possesses ...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed the largest jade dragon ever discovered from the Hongshan culture, an important part of the Neolithic Age, at a stone tomb site in the city of Chifeng, north ...

Hongshan culture, a key Neolithic culture dating from 6,500 to 5,000 years ago, spanned what is today's Liaoning and Hebei provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Hongshan culture, a key Neolithic culture dating from 6,500 to 5,000 years ago, spanned what is today's Liaoning and Hebei provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Hongshan culture, a key Neolithic culture dating from 6,500 to 5,000 years ago, spanned what is today's Liaoning and Hebei provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Hongshan culture, a key Neolithic culture dating from 6,500 to 5,000 years ago, spanned what is today's Liaoning and Hebei provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.