Zuojiashan Stone Dragon advanced the origin of the Chinese dragon by about a thousand years. It is 4.4cm long, 3.8 cm wide, and 1.4 cm thick.
The whole body is smooth and grainless, in a curled shape, and the head and tail are connected like a jue. Experts used carbon-14 to determine that the Zuojiashingan Dragon was about 6,000 years ago. The C-shaped jade dragon of the Hongshan Culture was about 5,000 to 6,00 years ago, experts say.