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Rare ceramic dragon head — at least 1,400 years old — found at temple in China. See it
The sculpture would have been what was called a ridge beast, or an ornamentation placed on the corners and edges of roofs or along the upper ridge, archaeologists said. While dragon iconography is far ...
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Chinese Dragons: Why They’re So Important in Chinese Culture
In fact, there are nine dragon children that can be found all throughout Chinese art and architecture: Bixi, Chiwen, Pulao, Bi’an, Taotie, Suanni, Yazi, Jiaotu and Baxia. In the book Chinese ...
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Dragons and lions provide link to the past
Shuangfeng, a township in Taicang of Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu province, is the renowned hometown of the Chinese folk art for crafting festive dragons and lions. The history of dragon and ...
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Rare ceramic dragon head — at least 1,400 years old — found at temple in China. See it
At an ancient Tang Dynasty site in Hebei Province, south of Beijing, archaeologists discovered a rare ceramic sculpture. Siyi via Unsplash Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in ...