Pig dragon

A pig dragon or zhūlóng (simplified Chinese: 玉猪龙; traditional Chinese: 玉豬龍)[1] is a type of jade artifact from the Hongshan culture of neolithic China.

[2] Early pig dragons are thick and stubby, and later examples have more graceful, snakelike bodies.

Along with the same culture's jade eagles (玉鷹),[1] they often featured as grave goods.

[3] Pig bones have been found interred alongside humans at Hongshan burial sites, suggesting that the animal had some ritual significance.

[4] Media related to Pig dragons at Wikimedia Commons