The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology in North China's Shanxi Province has revealed ... to the early Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), has yielded various artifacts including ceramics ...

have been discovered in many places of China since the Han Dynasty, often seen on stone components of tombs or silk paintings. The patterns were probably influenced by the Shang Dynasty images ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] For example ... the venom of a real snake,” says Fan. In the Han Dynasty, snakes also appeared often on patterns of xuanwu, a Chinese mythical creature that ...