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A pig dragon or zhūlóng (simplified Chinese: 玉 猪龙; traditional Chinese: 玉 豬龍) [1] is a type of jade artifact from the Hongshan culture of neolithic China. Pig dragons are zoomorphic forms with a pig-like head and elongated limbless body coiled around to the head and described as "suggestively fetal". [ 2 ]
Hongshan burial artifacts include some of the earliest known examples of jade working. The Hongshan culture is known for its jade pig dragons and embryo dragons. Clay figurines, including figurines of pregnant women, are also found throughout Hongshan sites. Small copper rings were also excavated. [citation needed] [12]
Zhulong / ˈ dʒ uː l ɒ ŋ / or Zhuyin / ˈ dʒ uː j ɪ n /, also known in English as the Torch Dragon, was a giant red solar dragon and god in Chinese mythology. It supposedly had a human's face and snake's body, created day and night by opening and closing its eyes, and created seasonal winds by breathing.
Examples of magatama from the Jōmon period have been discovered in large numbers at the Kamegaoka site in Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture.The Kamegaoka remains are among the largest known Jōmon settlement in Japan, and the magatama, among other decorative objects found, may be an indicator of the high social status of the settlement.
Their goal, Haala said, is to preserve the area's history with artifacts, pictures and oral histories. Volunteers operate the Rapidan Heritage Society and will work to open the new museum this winter.
The Hongshan culture sites in present-day Inner Mongolia produced jade dragon objects in the form of pig dragons which are the first 3-dimensional representations of Chinese dragons. [29] One such early form was the pig dragon. It is a coiled, elongated creature with a head resembling a boar. [30]
Female torso, 3500 BC, Hongshan Culture, Liaoning, 1982. Height 7.8 cm. Red brown terracotta. National Museum of China. Niuheliang (Chinese: 牛河梁) is a Neolithic archaeological site in Liaoning Province, Northeast China, along the middle and upper reaches of the Laoha River and the Yingjin River (presently on the border of Chaoyang and Jianping County).
“Hundreds of people were tortured there, they were murdered there and then the communist government builds a pig farm there with 13,000 pigs defecating on top of these people’s remains.