What is the relationship between the prehistoric jade artifacts unearthed in Qingliang Temple and the Hongshan culture and the Shijiahe culture?

Ruicheng Qingliang Temple cemetery belongs to the temple-Potou site (that is, "Potou site"), the site was first discovered in 1955 and 1965, belongs to the Neolithic temple digou phase II culture, the total area of the cemetery is nearly 5,000 square meters. Excavations in 2004 cleaned up a total of 262 tombs, which are arranged in an orderly manner, with rows from north to south and east to west, and there are also more complex broken relationships. A total of more than 200 jade artifacts such as jade bi, jade and jade were unearthed in the tomb.

Teacher Xue Xinming, the excavation leader of the prehistoric cemetery of Qingliang Temple

Xue Xinming is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of Shanxi Province

2004 National Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries Commendation Conference

Xue Xinming in survey and analysis

The M52 jade cunning was unearthed on the left hand of the tomb owner and is one of the most beautiful jade objects found in the entire cemetery

The more distinctive artifacts are also comb-shaped jade and nearly square jade that have some similarities with similar artifacts of the Hongshan culture, and what is the relationship between the jade of Qingliang Temple and the jade of the Hongshan culture?

Comb-shaped jade was unearthed in M146

The Hongshan culture unearthed a cloud-shaped pendant

In the north-central part of the disturbed tomb of Qingliang Temple M87, there are two tiger head-like ornaments, and the overall shape, carving technique, and detailed expression of these two artifacts are similar to similar artifacts found in the Shijiahe cultural site in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

M87 unearthed tiger head-shaped jade