Cong (funerary sculpture)
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Descripción
Late Neolithic Chinese jade tubes having a squared exterior surface and a round hollow interior. They are usually decorated at the corners with facial features, sometimes abbreviated to concentric circles or eye-like shapes, and embellished with incised horizontal bars on the planar surfaces. An ancient Chinese text called 'The Rites of Zhou' states that the cong was used as a sacrifice to the earth.
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Otros términos
- cong [nl]
- cong [zh]
- zong (funerary sculpture) [en]
- cong tubes [en]
- ts'ung (cong) [zh]