Liaoning is the first province in China where Hongshan Culture sites were discovered.

In the 1980s, the sites of the altar, temple, and grave and sets of jade ritual ware in Niuheliang were discovered. The conclusive and rich archaeological data proves that the Hongshan ancestors have changed its savage barbarous situation into civilization era and stepped into the journey of civilization on the land of China firstly. It provides powerful physical evidence for the 5,000-year Chinese civilization, and is of great academic value for social development history, traditional cultural history, history of ideas, architectural history, and art history in ancient China.