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Little bronze dragons for Taoist sacrifices on display
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The Shaanxi History Museum collects a set of bronze dragons engraved with densely packed scales on their body. /CGTN
The Shaanxi History Museum collects a set of bronze dragons engraved with densely packed scales on their body. /CGTN

The Shaanxi History Museum collects a set of bronze dragons engraved with densely packed scales on their body. /CGTN

At less than three centimeters tall, a set of 12 bronze dragons engraved with densely packed scales on their body was unearthed at a village in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in 1970. They are now kept at the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an. The dragons were used during Taoist sacrificial rituals during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and were thrown into a river after the sacrifice.

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