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===Jade culture===
{{Main|Liangzhu culture}}
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The Liangzhu culture was the last Neolithic Jade culture in the [[Yangtze River Delta]] and was spaced over a period of about 1,300 years. The Jade from this culture is characterized by finely worked, large ritual jades such as [[Cong (jade)|Cong]] cylinders, [[Bi (jade)|Bi]] discs, Yue axes and also pendants and decorations in the form of chiseled open-work plaques, plates and representations of small birds, turtles and fish. The Liangzhu Jade has a white, milky bone-like aspect due to its [[tremolite]] rock origin and influence of water-based fluids at the burial sites.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

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File:Chinese - Cong - Walters 42340 - Profile.jpg|''[[Cong (vessel)|Cong]]'', 3rd millennium BCE
File:Ring with coiled dragon design.jpg|Two-dragon ring, early Shang dynasty (2nd millennium BCE)
File:Dinastia zhou occ.le, drago decorativo in giada, 770-256 ac. ca..JPG|Jade dragon, [[Western Zhou]]
File:Earliest Chinese Iron Sword.JPG|Rusted Zhou-era [[Jian]] with a jade hilt, c.9th century BCE
File:十六节龙凤玉挂饰，2015-04-06 06.jpg|Chain of 16 carved jade pieces locked onto each other; 8th century BCE, Chu State.

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