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Cultural Relic: Clay Image of a Pregnant WomanYou could find the Chinese Venus de Milo in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province in northeast China.Quite a few images like this one were discovered at the same time in the base of a circular stone sacrificial altar of Hongshan origin.All images had protruding bellies and large buttocks, conspicuous fea...
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Cultural Relic: Pig? Dragon? Jade-pig Dragon!Is it a whistle? Don’t be cheated by its appearance. Its name is jade pig-dragon. Today we provide this cultural relic for you.The jade pig-dragon in the picture,7.2cm high, shows a fat pig head and a dragon body coiled like a ring. It has big ears, glaring eyes with crow’s feet, and a protruding,...
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Cultural Relic: Jade Male-female FigurineA light-gray standing sculpture, this jade figurine shows a male nude on one side and a female one on the other.They are about 12.5 cm tall, 4.4 cm wide and 1 cm thick. According to records, they were probably made between the 14th century BC to the 11th century BC.Carved in relief, it probably repr...
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Cultural Relic: Ancient people’s Ivory CombWhen you tidy your hair, have you ever thought about how ancients do it? It turns out that dating back to Neolithic age, there had already existed comb.Made of thick ivory, this comb has 16 fines, and closely spaced teeth and is decorated with an openwork pattern in triple lines that looks like the...
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Painted Clay Jar with Two Ears and Spiral PatternThe clay jar seems to blow out a gust of fresh wild breeze over our face. Do you want to have an artwork like the picture in your home?Clay jars of this type usually had a small mouth. Most of them were recovered from graves. The one shown here had a pattern of parallel lines and triangles around th...
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Cultural Relic: Painted Clay Jar with a Pointed BottonMaybe you are wondering what you could do with a jar head upside down. It seems that you couldn’t use it to hold water or any other things. Every question has its own answer.Now let’s see what ancients Chinese people use it for.This jar, 15.6 cm high,with a pointed bottom has a number of symbols p...
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