Pig dragon
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A pig dragon or zhūlóng (Chinese: t 玉豬龍, s 玉猪龙[1]) is a type of jade artifact from 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] Early pig dragons are thick and stubby, and later examples have more graceful, snakelike bodies.
Pig dragons were produced by the Hongshan culture. Along with the same culture's jade eagles (玉鷹),[1] they often featured as grave goods.[3] For example, see [1]. Pig bones have been found interred alongside humans at Hongshan burial sites, suggesting that the animal had some ritual significance.
There is some speculation that the pig dragon is the first representation of the Chinese dragon. The character for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ko, Patrick. Federation of Medical Studies of Hong Kong, "The History of Ancient Chinese Jade Culture". Jan 2008.
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- ↑ Howard, Angela & al. Chinese Sculpture, pp. 21 f. Yale Univ. Press, 2006. ISBN 0-300-10065-5.
- ↑ Salviati, Filippo (2002). The Language of Adornment: Chinese Ornaments of Jade, Crystal, Amber and Glass, Fig. 17. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 1-58008-587-3.
External links
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