The 5,000-year-old carving was the “largest jade dragon ever discovered from the Hongshan culture,” the State Council of the People’s Republic of China said in a Sept. 23 Xinhua news release.
Other items on display are a jar from the Yangshao culture of 5,000BC to 3,000BC that features plant motifs and a Hongshan period jade dragon (4,500BC to 3,000BC), believed to be one of the ...