Foreword: In the ancient continent, dragons symbolize worship and admiration, and people will also use gold, jade and other carved into the shape of dragons. The Hongshan Cultural Site, which dates back 5,000 to 6,000 years, is also one of the earliest relics of Chinese civilization. Many of these cultural relics have been handed down to this day, and the "crooked hook" that a farmer found by accident in the field before also attracted a lot of attention after the discovery of the Hongshan cultural relics.
Jade for my brother as a toy
For example, a farmer found a "crooked hook-shaped" object in the field in 1971, and the discovery of this object did not attract much attention from him, but he thought that he could play with it as a toy for his brother, so he took the object back to his home.
At first, he only thought that this "crooked hook" object could make his brother a toy, so when he returned home, he tied the "curved hook" with a rope and let his brother pull and play. After playing like this for a few days, the outer ring of the "crooked hook" was ground out of some color, and the farmer saw the color on it and felt that the object was not simple, and it looked like jade.
Found it was jade and sold for 30 yuan
Since the "crooked hook" was jade, the farmer also collected this object, and later felt that he could sell it for money, after all, it was jade, and he should be able to sell some money. So he came to the Weng Niu Special Banner Cultural Center, and after communicating with the staff of the cultural center, the object sold for 30 yuan. The price was still good at the time, after all, it was 1971, and 30 yuan was a lot of income at that time.
Farmers are happy that jade can be sold for money, and the librarians of the Weng Niu Special Banner Cultural Center have not paid much attention to this "curved hook" jade. At that time, it was only as an ordinary jade to be included in the museum, originally this cultural relic was sunk in the sea, but the discovery of the Hongshan cultural relics afterwards also made this jade enter the public vision again, and had a scientific name called "Jade Carving Dragon".
The value of jade carved dragons
With the discovery of the Hongshan cultural relics, the librarians of the Weng Niu Special Banner Cultural Center who were acquired at that time also remembered this curved hook jade, because of the similarities with some jade artifacts excavated from the Hongshan cultural relics. The Cultural Center also attaches great importance to this jade, so that Su Bingqi, an expert with great achievements in this area, has identified the jade carving dragon.
The results of the appraisal are naturally obvious to all, this jade carved dragon is a prototype of the "Chinese dragon", that is to say, a very precious cultural relic. And this jade carved dragon has a history of more than 5,000 years, and is an important cultural relic and reference object of Chinese civilization. In addition, its shape is also very interesting, because the overall shape is very similar to the letter "C", and it is also the largest C-shaped jade found today.
The whole body of this jade carved dragon is dark green, and it is precisely because of its color that people find that it is jade. The overall image of the jade carved dragon also has some differences from the concept of the dragon in the universal sense, which also makes it have a certain degree of fantasy, but its discovery is also a lot of "dragon" prototypes in it, which is of high research value.
In summary: dragon as a totem, it has a great mysterious color, this legendary animal, is still a regular visitor to myths and legends, and the discovery of this jade carved dragon, but also represents the early Chinese dragon, although there are no scales, no claws, etc., but it has basic characteristics, it is also known as "the first dragon in China". At that time, this jade was mainly used in sacrificial activities, which is enough to see its importance in the society of the time.
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