Besides the jade dragon from the Hongshan culture and the dragon characters on oracle bones, in a burial ground of the Yangshao culture in Puyang County of Henan, they have dug up a gold dragon made of stacked clam shells, and in the Taihu lake area they have even discovered a dragon on a 4000-year-old Liangzhu jade artifact.
紅山文化的玉龍、甲骨文中的龍字，及河南省濮陽縣仰韶文化墓址中挖掘出來以蚌殼堆疊的金龍，甚至太湖地區發現的四千多年前的良渚玉器中，不約而同地都可見龍的雛形。