Where is the cultural relic known as "the first Yilong in China" unearthed?

1987, "China Yilong" was discovered at Yangshao Cultural Site in Shui Bo, west of Puyang County, Henan Province.

1987, "China Yilong" was discovered at Yangshao Cultural Site in Shui Bo, west of Puyang County, Henan Province. On the left and right sides of an adult man's skeleton in the center of the tomb, there are dragon and tiger patterns carved by mussels. The dragon pattern is1.78m long and 0.67m high, with head held high, bow bent, long tail, front paws raking the ground and rear paws pedaling the ground, taking off in a straight line. Tiger pattern is 1.39 m long and 0.63 m high. The tiger's head is slightly lower, its eyes are round, its mouth is open, its teeth are exposed, its tail hangs down and its limbs alternate, like a walking tiger. The dragon and tiger patterns carefully carved with clam shells on both sides of the tomb were identified by archaeologists as "the first righteous dragon in China"

1988 coincides with the lunar calendar in the Year of the Loong. This major archaeological discovery immediately caused a sensation in academia and the press, and attracted widespread attention overseas. 1998 is the year of the tiger in the lunar calendar. Painter Li Yan wrote in the capital newspaper, "The dragon culture in China is quite rich.' Yi Long in China' comes from Puyang, the hometown of Zhuan Xu, the grandson of our ancestor Huangdi.

1987, in order to solve the problems of chemical industry and urban residents' water use, Puyang city built a water supply regulating pool for diverting water from the Yellow River at the west water slope in the southwest corner of the old city. In the archaeological investigation with the construction, rich Yangshao cultural settlement sites were found in the southwest of the regulating pool. Since June of that year, with the approval of National Cultural Heritage Administration, cultural relics and archaeologists in Puyang City have carried out scientific excavations on the site, and gained a lot. The most important and meaningful thing is to sort out four groups of dragon and tiger patterns of clam shells under the fourth layer of Yangshao culture, which are represented by B 1, B2, B3 and B4 respectively. B 1 is a tomb with the number M45. 17 August, in Discovery Square 137 (hereinafter referred to as T), the owner of the tomb was an old man, with his head in the south and his feet in the north, and his length was1.84m. On both sides are mussel shell dragon and tiger patterns. Dragon and tiger are opposite, and the dragon is on the east side, with a length of1.78m; The tiger is on the west side, with a length of 1.39 meters, with a head in the north and a tail in the south, and a pile of mussels in the north of the tomb owner and middle foot; B2 was found 20 meters south of B 1 and was found on T 176 September 10. Its contents include dragons, tigers, deer and stone axes. Tigers are in the west and deer are in the east. Their heads are facing north. The dragon is in the south of the tiger, with its mouth open and its tongue sticking out, showing its upper and lower teeth. There is a pile of nearly round mussels in the south of its mouth. The dragon body is folded under the tiger body. There is a spider-like pattern in the east of the faucet and a stone axe in the east. B2: the length from north to south is 2. 1m, and the width from east to west is1.33m:1B3 was discovered at T2 1 15, 25m south of B2 on October 23rd. The content is a running tiger, with its head west and tail east, and its back south and feet north running like a tail. Back-to-back with the tiger is Yilong, flying with his head held high, riding alone on his back; B4 is in the southwest of B3, and its image cannot be distinguished because it was broken by two late ash pits.

The three groups of mussel pictures are unique in shape, large in scale and rich in connotation, which are first discovered in the history of cultural archaeology in Yang Yun. Experts agree that mussels belong to the early relics of Yang Yun culture in archaeological dating and are the authentic ancestors of various dragons in the Forbidden City. Subsequently, the carbon 14 was measured in the laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The age was 6,600 years ago, and the error was less than 1.35 (corrected by tree rings). Therefore, experts nicknamed the mussel dragon "the first dragon in China". "China Yilong" caused a sensation at home and abroad. Experts and scholars from various disciplines at home and abroad have conducted comprehensive and in-depth research on it and achieved remarkable results. As the source of dragon culture in West Shui Bo, its profound connotation is being revealed, and its practical significance has gone beyond academic research itself.