Jade Dragon
The jade dragon of the Han dynasty is a small, coiled dragon pendant carved from nephrite jade, found in the tombs of the Chinese aristocracy of the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD, where it was laid among the burial goods as a symbol of the celestial forces that governed the dead and of the soul's journey through the heavens. The dragon, the long, was the creature of the east, of rain, and of imperial power, and jade, the most precious stone of the Chinese world, was believed to preserve the body and to concentrate life-force, so that the pairing made the pendant a powerful talisman of p