Jade, engraved in the genes of the Chinese people, has been around since ancient times, with Liangzhu in the south and Red Mountain in the north, echoing each other.
The Hongshan culture is about 6500-5000 years old, and it is named after the first discovery in Hongshan in Chifeng City. The residents of Hongshan culture settled down and carried out agricultural production, animal husbandry, hunting and other activities. The jade artifacts of Hongshan culture mainly appeared in the late period of Hongshan culture, about 5500-5000 years ago, and there are more than a dozen varieties of jade artifacts that have been unearthed, and most of them are animals in real life or animals as gods. Its image is simple and vigorous, focusing on the magic of the shape and not paying attention to the gorgeousness of the pattern, with the simple and bold style of the northern national culture.
The most famous jade artifact in the Hongshan culture is the jade pig dragon, which has a C-shaped dragon and a jade jue-shaped dragon, the former has fewer surviving and more stories.
In the Nanjing Museum's "Yurun China" exhibition, I saw a C-shaped dragon again. How is "see you again"?Because I've seen it at different exhibitions before, and there is more than one.
The most famous C-shaped dragon is the dark green Xiuyan jade on display at the National Museum. Because it was discovered relatively early, the investigation of the excavation site and the discoverer is relatively certain, so it is used as the "standard" of the Hongshan C-shaped dragon, and it is also forbidden to go abroad to exhibit cultural relics.
A C-shaped dragon at the exhibition "Ancient China" at the National Museum.
The other is seen in the "See Red Mountain Again" exhibition held by the Liaoning Provincial Museum, which was bought by the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in the 50th year of the last century for teaching. Compared with the one in the National Museum, it is a bit "short and thick", but the shape and momentum of the flying mane are the same.
The Hongshan C-shaped dragon collected by the Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.
It's very energetic.
See you again this time, at the Nanbo "Yurun China" exhibition. This piece is in the collection of the Palace Museum and comes from a private collector.
The Red Mountain C-shaped dragon in the collection of the Palace Museum.
This piece in the Forbidden City collection is different from the first two pieces in color (it is yellow-green) and has the same shape (both have a body rolled into a C-shape and a flying mustache).
Visually, this one is the largest of the three. But the reputation of "China's first dragon" belongs to the one of the National Museum.
The jade dragon has a beautiful rainbow-shaped curve, the dragon body is light, no limbs, no claws, no horns and no scales, and the body is like a snake, strong and powerful.
The head of the jade dragon is carved, the fusiform long eyes are protruding, and the edge has a single yin line to outline the outline;The snout is long and convex, the nose is upturned, and the mouth and jaw are carved with a few concise pubic linesThe back of the head is long and flowing.
This is the third Red Mountain C-shaped dragon I have ever seen. There should be more than these three C-shaped dragons in existence, and three have already been seen anyway.
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