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Historical tombs in Henan province
Because there is the earliest dragon pattern in this ancient tomb, it is called? China's eLong? . Although the owner of this tomb has not yet been determined, its discovery proves that perhaps dragons really exist. From ancient times to the present, whether in film and television dramas or novels, there are a lot of stories about? Dragon? Record. From the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, there were 108 records about dragons in unofficial history. After the Tang Dynasty, the related records of dragons became more frequent. In the history of the Song Dynasty, it was recorded that dragons appeared nine times. It was 14 times in the Yuan Dynasty and 38 times in the Ming Dynasty. There are also 67 records about dragons in Qing Draft. However, until now, whether dragons exist or not is still a mystery.

As early as June 1987, archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb in a county town of Puyang City, Henan Province. Experts were very surprised at the skeleton of a special adult man in the tomb. On the right side of his body is a 1.8-meter-long image of a clam dragon, and on the left is a tiger image made of clam shells. Even experienced archaeologists have never seen this rare shape.

In order to find out the age of the mausoleum, experts measured the clam shell samples by professional methods and found that it was about 6600 years ago. Yangshao culture period in Neolithic Age, the legend of the Yellow Emperor recorded in historical books was also that period! In addition, the mussel dragon unearthed this time is the earliest dragon pattern found in China archaeology, so it is called? China's eLong? .

The discovery of this ancient tomb is unusual, but the owner of this ancient tomb never speculated. According to the comprehensive judgment of experts, the qualified figures are Zhuan Xu, Fuxi and Chiyou. However, although the owner of this tomb is still inconclusive, the dragon-shaped pattern unearthed in this tomb more or less proves that the dragon species may have existed.