In December 1987 , in the Henan province , a place of origin of Chinese civilization, a shell dragon was discovered.
Considered as the «first dragon of China It is important for the study of the country's cultural history. It can be seen exposed 60 km from Zhengzhou , capital of the province. It was discovered in a tomb dating back to the Yangshao culture era , at the time of irrigation works near the Huanghe (Yellow River) .
Located in a pit 5 meters deep, the dragon is made of shells of different shapes and colors: the sharp teeth and claws are white and brown, the round eyes are black and white, the tongue is dark red .
With a length of almost 1.80 m , it resembles the dragons of legends: a horse's head, deer horns, a scaled snake's body, eagle claws, a fish tail, a straight head.
Her undulating body seems ready to walk and fly.
An ancient book tells that a girl, Huaxu , she accidentally walked on an imprint of the foot of the God of lightning, while she was on her way to Leize .
she became pregnant with it and gave birth to a child named Fuxi (he is the Chinese Adam ), with the head of a man and the body of a dragon.
Fuxi he was regarded as the ancestor of the Chinese nation.
And it is for this reason that the Chinese people are said to be descended from the dragon.
The first civilization in the history of mankind was born in Mesopotamia in the 5th millennium BC, in the fertile crescent that stretches between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. The Sumerians developed a brilliant civilization there and invented the first writing system:cuneiform writing.