Hongshan Culture originated from the south-central Inner Mongolia to the west of Northeast China, and began five or six thousand years ago. It is one of the earliest cultural relics of Chinese civilization.

Hongshan Culture's social form was in the heyday of matriarchal clan society in the early stage, and the main social structure was tribal groups linked by female blood groups, which gradually transformed into paternal clans in the later stage. Agriculture is the main economic form, and animal husbandry, fishing and hunting coexist. Its remains are Neolithic culture, including unique painted pottery and serrated pottery, as well as microliths.

The age of Hongshan Culture is determined by carbon 14, which is about 4000 ~ 3000 BC, and the main body is 5500 years ago. Hongshan Culture residents are mainly engaged in agriculture, raising pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock, and fishing and hunting. Among the stone tools, tobacco leaf-shaped, straw sandals-shaped and cinnamon leaf-shaped double-hole stone knives have rich characteristics, as well as grinding double-hole stone knives, stone knives, shoulder stone hoes, stone mills, stone rollers and stone arrowheads.

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Hongshan Culture fully embodies the cultural characteristics and connotation of the Neolithic Age in northern China. Later, a site with similar or identical cultural characteristics to the Hongshan site in Chifeng was discovered in the neighboring area, which was collectively called Hongshan Culture.

Sites belonging to this cultural system have been discovered and confirmed, covering nearly a thousand places in western Liaoning. Its connotation is rich, there are a large number of vivid and unique jade articles, as well as animal images such as pigs, turtles, birds, cicadas and fish. With the identification of these jades in 1970s, archaeologists discovered the large jade dragon in Hongshan Culture in Sanxingtala, Wengniute Banner, Chifeng City.

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