Chinese jade culture has a long history. As early as the Neolithic Age in 6000 BC, Chinese jade was born. Jade, stone and jade were inseparable at that time. Primitive humans collected these beautiful stones (jade in a broad sense) and initially processed them into simple and practical tools. Later, with the emergence of human aesthetic concepts, the development of productivity and production technology, and the emergence of nature worship, totem worship and witch worship, the processed jade articles became valuable artistic decorations and spiritual media in religious sacrificial activities.

Liangzhu culture jade is an important representative of Neolithic jade, located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and closely related to Hongshan Culture and Dawenkou cultures. Jade is mainly tremolite and actinolite with hardness of 4-6. According to Zhou Li, Jade Cong is a ritual vessel, which is mainly used to participate in religious sacrificial activities and major ceremonial activities. Yu Cong is an outstanding representative of Liangzhu jade culture. The Jade Cong in Liangzhu has an inner ring and an outer ring, which may represent the earliest concept of "a place with a round sky" in China. When unearthed, it has the following characteristics: the tomb is large in scale and rich in funerary objects; The owner of the tomb is mostly male; Yan often goes out with Bi; There are martyrs in some tombs. These phenomena show that the plexus is related to primitive religions and rituals; His master must be a tribal chief, wizard and other upper-class people. There are many kinds of shapes and ornamentation of Yan, especially Zhang Lingshan. The shape of Yan is like a round bracelet with four arc-shaped protrusions on its outer edge, and the negative line is engraved with animal face patterns. The image is heavy eyebrows, big mouth and four fangs, which is fierce. Other valves are divided into two to a dozen segments, and each segment is engraved with various animal faces with negative lines, with different images. Simple people can only carve small circles to represent the eyes of animals. The animal face pattern on the cluster has two important modeling characteristics. One is a short face, most of them have no mandible, and highlight big round eyes. The other is more combined with Yun Leiwen.

Liangzhu jade is the representative of southern jade culture in Neolithic Age, representing a new peak of ancient jade culture in China and leading a new direction of jade culture development.