{"id":"EA-NIUDAOKOU-001","label":"Niudaokou jade blade at the southern limit","people_or_site":"Niudaokou village / Baodi","country_current":"China","historic_region":"Niudaokou, Baodi District, Tianjin, China","macroregion":"East Asia / China","local_name":"玉匕","source_term":"玉匕; 玉匕形器; 玉匕形饰; 匕形玉坠; 玉玦 combination","source_language":"Chinese","object_description":"A small jade bi-shaped blade, 5.7 × 1.4 × 0.5 cm, pierced by a single hole at its upper end.","function_summary":"Published as a Neolithic jade bi-shaped ornament (玉匕形饰), found with a jue earring — the Xinglongwa pairing at its southernmost documented point, fixing the southern range of the Chinese blade series.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"niudaokou_baodi_yubixingshi_route","source_type":"secondary_museum_caption_route","source_url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/152583357_695096","page_or_plate":"Sohu/Gu Yu Jie image route; 1991 Kaogu report lead","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate point in Baodi District, Tianjin, for the Niudaokou site; a district-level point, not a site coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"At Niudaokou in Tianjin's Baodi district, the bi-shaped jade blade reached its documented southern limit: a strip of jade 5.7 centimetres long, 1.4 wide and half a centimetre thick, pierced at the upper end, found with a slit jade jue earring — the same pairing of blade and earring that defines the Xinglongwa jade kit a thousand kilometres north. Guo Dashun's dispersal studies make the site the southernmost node on the route by which the West Liao jade tradition moved down toward the Bohai coast. Exhibited by the Tianjin Museum in 2023 and held by the Baodi District Cultural Center, it shows the blade-plus-jue package travelling as a package — form and association together.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"玉匕 (yù bǐ): 'jade bi' — the bi-shaped (spoon-shaped) blade","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":["snake"],"f_jade_complex":true,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 6050–5050 BC","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"typological_association","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"niudaokou_baodi_yubixingshi_route, Sohu/Gu Yu Jie image route; 1991 Kaogu report lead","sources":[{"citation":"「天津宝坻县牛道口遗址调查发掘简报」, 考古 1991(7): 577-586, 673; Tianjin Museum exhibition (2023), 新石器时代玉匕形饰, Baodi District Cultural Centre","url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/152583357_695096","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013005729/https://www.sohu.com/a/152583357_695096"}],"source_citations":"「天津宝坻县牛道口遗址调查发掘简报」, 考古 1991(7): 577-586, 673; Tianjin Museum exhibition (2023), 新石器时代玉匕形饰, Baodi District Cultural Centre","source_display":"「天津宝坻县牛道口遗址调查发掘简报」, 考古 1991(7): 577-586, 673; Tianjin Museum exhibition (2023), 新石器时代玉匕形饰, Baodi District Cultural Centre","date_citation_display":"Sohu/Gu Yu Jie image route; 1991 Kaogu report lead","object_display":"A small jade bi-shaped blade, 5.7 × 1.4 × 0.5 cm, pierced by a single hole at its upper end.","function_display":"Published as a Neolithic jade bi-shaped ornament (玉匕形饰), found with a jue earring — the Xinglongwa pairing at its southernmost documented point, fixing the southern range of the Chinese blade series.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"niudaokou","display_name":"Niudaokou jade blade at the southern limit","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-niudaokou-001.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-niudaokou-001_thumb.jpg","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://www.sohu.com/a/152583357_695096","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Niudaokou jade blade, 5.7 cm long, pierced at its upper end."},"slug":"ea-niudaokou-001-niudaokou-village-baodi-lead"}