Image: Changshadragon
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Description: Silk painting featuring a man (a wizard) asking a dragon to go to the sky, dated to 5th century BCE (Warring States period). Describe a wizard, asking with a rope to a dragon to go up in the sky, meaning a peacefull year, as it should do one time a year. This finework is in Changsha, Hunan province, at the Hunan provincial museum.
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Credit: Biblio : Trois mille ans de peinture chinoise Collectif, Editions Ph. Piquier, 2003. pages 22-23. Et : Danielle Elisseeff, 2008. Art et archéologie : la Chine du néolithique à la fin des Cinq Dynasties (960 de notre ère), Manuel de l'école du Louvre.
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