The original was the bronze dragon of Wei family in Middle Zhou Dynasty

The inscriptions engraved on the carrier may be due to not keep, and perhaps the early ideographic symbol was already known to the world, but always the possibility of not quite understanding, and many other reasons, to date no earlier than Oracle's written records, but both the Oracle and Bronze "mature" or decoration business Zhou device "mature", can not be done overnight, after the long years must be the result of gradual evolution. The original bronze sculpture was unearthed in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, Lintong City, Shanxi Province in 1980.  Therefore, Oracle can not be the first Chinese man to use the communication symbol, while the decoration on the bronze ritual nor the original shape of things, but Oracle and guitar with gold decoration is a common feature pictographic knowing. Oracle's "dragon" character and the bronze dragon engraved in the same period, must express the same thing, so there is no necessary link between the two.

Oracle's "dragon" multiple variations of the word, without exception, to smooth the curve expressing the dragon's body movement can be flexible and have the volume focus on the performance upturned tail, and this two points on the cast bronze and carved dragons Kui Dragon features exactly. Long described as the prototype for all that smells of the current hypotheses have known more than twenty different kinds, are the prototype for the study of the dragon and its cultural significance provides a useful reference. Now, the bronze statue is in the possession of Lintong Qin Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum.  In fact, these hypotheses do not care about right and wrong, there is no need to pursue a unified conclusion, because the proposed hypothesis is based on a variety of different, reflecting the distinctive regional characteristics.

First, the prototype of the dragon unearthed identified as the source for a different kind of area. In the vast Chinese territory, trace the footprints of human civilization to be found more than prehistoric dragons see the ruins, for example, check in Fuxin County, Liaoning Province, the site found a sea of red-brown gravel Duisu dragon, Inner Mongolia Wengniute Special flag Samsung pigs found in the village he pulled the first snake C-shaped jade dragon, Henan Puyang Xishuipo tomb discovered 45 sites mussels plastic dragon, Hubei apricot coke ruins found in river gravel pier put plastic dragon, the anti-Hill, Yuhang, Zhejiang cemetery that Received Date: 2009--1009-- Author: Qian Niu (1979 -), female, Tianjin, PhD, Research for the pre-Qin cultural history. The chinese bronze sculpture vehicle and horse size is half of that of the real one.

Qian Niu: Shang and Zhou bronze dragon on the regional characteristics of the prototype and test the source of the cultural significance Diao white round boards. The original was the bronze dragon of Wei family in Middle Zhou Dynasty.  Second, different regions of the discovery of the remains of prehistoric dragon types belonging to different cultures, is still above examples as evidence: Northeast gravel plastic dragon is about eight thousand years ago Xinglongwa culture period, C-shaped jade dragon is about five ago years of Hongshan Culture period, the Yellow River basin mussels plastic dragon is about six thousand four hundred years ago Yangshao period, the Yangtze River basin is gravel plastic Long ago five or six thousand of Qujialing - Shijiahe Culture period, a license is a round white Diao - about five thousand years ago the Liangzhu culture period and so on.