Jade pig dragon-the embryonic form of dragon

　　Jade Pig Dragon, excavated in Niuheliang site of Hongshan culture, has a pig head, wide eyes and a rounded body, just like the embryonic form of a dragon.

　　Dragon is a unique symbolic symbol in China's traditional culture. When its image returns to the curled-up shape, it is like a baby in its mother's body, which is the beginning of individual life and the beginning of civilization.

　　Hongshan culture, which originated in the southwest of Northeast China and started five or six thousand years ago, is one of the earliest remains of Chinese civilization.

　　During this period, the ancestors entered a primary civilized society dominated by farming. Pigs are closely related to people's lives. They are not only a kind of food, but also a symbol of bravery.

　　It is worth noting that the image of pigs in ancient times is very different from that of fat and round pigs in our current impression. In that dangerous era, they were predators in the food chain, and their fighting capacity was amazing.

　　People worship wild boar as a totem culture, which reflects a desire and worship for strength.

　　Jade pig dragon is a sacred object of totem worship of ancestors, and it is also an intermediary that calls heaven and earth.

　　Hongshan culture period, it was an era when nature and human beings faced each other directly. Animism is the personification of nature. The ancestors worshipped all the gods in nature and communicated with everything in the world with their own understanding. This is the primitive and simple "connecting gods".

　　Jade Pig Dragon is a heavenly beast created by Hongshan ancestors. It is an abstract deity used to pray for rain and harvest.

　　It is not difficult to find that during the Hongshan culture period, beautiful jade born out of mountains and rivers has become a material carrier to communicate with heaven and earth. Jade is closely related to the occurrence and development of Chinese civilization and has a far-reaching origin.

　　The worship and love of jade in our bones is innate, and it is also the brand of jade culture inheritance in past dynasties.

　　Today, the jade pig dragon is also a classic theme in jade carving.

　　The antique jade pig dragon retains the childish image of the ancient pig dragon. Its body is curled up and connected end to end, and its shape is rough, showing a pious atmosphere with mysterious power that has passed through thousands of years.

　　Dragons, from the East, come by "jade". Jade Pig Dragon condenses the emotions, beliefs, wisdom and ideas of our ancestors, and it also has mysterious guardian power today.

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