Artifacts woefully ruined: Among the tales of grave looting in the mainland are stories of robbers who could not move Buddha statues, so they cut off the Buddha's head and carried it away. Similar acts of destruction in Liangzhu are not nearly as awful, but in terms of loss to archaeology, they amount to the same thing.
以往大陸偷盜文物的傳說中，曾有因搬不動佛像，因而割斷佛頭的情事，良渚鎮類似截斷玉器的事情，看似「小巫見大巫」，但對文物的破壞則一。