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2. Hongshan culture - Wikipedia

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   The Hongshan culture is known for its carved jade. [11] 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 ...

3. Hanfu accessories - Wikipedia

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   Jade culture is an important aspect of Chinese culture, [3] reflecting both the material and spiritual culture of the Chinese people. [4]: 18 Jade is deeply ingrained in Chinese culture and played a role in every aspect of social life; [4]: 18 it is also associated with positive qualities and aspects such as purity, excellence, and harmony.

4. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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   C-shaped dragon/ Ring-like dragon Hong (rainbow-dragon) Hongshan Jade dragon Panlong [4] Shuanglong [14] Zhulong Curly and coiled dragon Azure dragon: Kuilong (夔龙) [4] Panchi [4] Zisunlong (子孙龙) Long dragon or mang dragon: 3-clawed dragons/ 4-clawed dragons, also called mang (蟒, lit. "python")/ 5-clawed dragons

5. Chinese dragon - Wikipedia

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   Azure Dragon, the animal associated with the East in the Chinese Four Symbols, mythological creatures in the Chinese constellations; Qiulong, contradictorily defined as both "horned dragon" and "hornless dragon" Zhulong was a giant red draconic solar deity in Chinese mythology. It supposedly had a human's face and snake's body, created day and ...

6. Chinese jade - Wikipedia

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   Oracle bone script for 玉 "jade".. The Chinese word yù 玉 "jade; gems of all kinds; (of women) beautiful; (courteous) your" has semantically broader meanings than English jade "any of various hard greenish gems used in jewelry and artistic carvings, including jadeite and nephrite; a green color of medium hue; made of jade; green like jade".

7. Jade Emperor - Wikipedia

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   The Jade Emperor ordered Mountain God to trap the four dragons. However, from each mountain that trapped a dragon there sprang a new river. From Yellow Dragon came the Yellow River, from Long Dragon the Yangtze River, from Black Dragon the Amur River, and from Pearl Dragon the Pearl River. The rivers thereafter flowed from west to east and ...

8. Longnü - Wikipedia

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   The depiction of Longnü and Sudhana with Avalokiteśvara may have been influenced by Yunü (Jade Maiden) and Jintong (Golden Youth) who both appear in the iconography of the Jade Emperor. She is described as being the eight-year-old daughter of the Dragon King ( traditional Chinese : 龍王 ; simplified Chinese : 龙王 ; pinyin : Lóng Wáng ...

9. Tiangong censer - Wikipedia

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   The Tiangong censer (Chinese: 天公爐, tian gong lu) is a special type of incense burner used for worshiping the Jade Emperor. [1] [2] "Because he is the highest-ranking deity in the deity world, most of the people in Taiwan do not make statues of the deity, but instead use the deity as a representative.