Spring and Autumn Period
£¨770-476B.C.£©Unearthed at Guangshan, Henan
Diameter: 3.8cm
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Sapphire ornament
in the shape of human head and snake body Spring and Autumn Period £¨770-476B.C.£©Unearthed at Guangshan, Henan Diameter: 3.8cm |
| The pair of jades were made the shape of human head and snake body. They are thought as the images of Fuxi and Nuwa. Fuxi and Nuwa are the ancestors of human beings in Chinese myths, and they are usually depicted as the figures of human head and snake body. It is said that Fuxi taught people how to fish and hunt and created the Eight Diagrams; and Nuwa smelt stones to mend the sky and made human beings with clay. | |
