Relics from the Niuheliang Goddess Temple, the most mysterious site of the ancient Hongshan b4in.org/jEaT The Neolithic Hongshan culture has revealed itself to researchers through its long-preserved bounty of jade artifacts, its ceremonial monuments, its burial traditions, and its influence in the origins of the Chinese civilization. The Hongshan underground Goddess Temple housed beautiful and mysterious relics of unknown deities, and larger-than-life statues. Discovered in 1983, it can be said that no other site typifies and imparts the Hongshan spiritual heritage more than Niuheliang, featuring an underground Goddess Temple complex, ancient relics, cairns, mounds, altars and graves. Niuheliang is an outstanding example of “holy sacrificial land” of the early period of human civilization, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) writes. More b4in.org/jEaT
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