The outskirts of Xi'an Banpo had only one names, where in 1953 a project, they found buried beneath this piece of heritage areas, after experts confirmed that it was more than 6000 years ago, Neolithic sites have been naming for the Banpo site, was built here in 1958, Banpo Ruins Museum. The site of the discovery to the history of the Chinese people over a thousand years forward, breaking the Legend of the Dragon often said the "up and down five thousand years," the history of the framework. Since this period, the first cultural sites as early as 1921 Yangshao village in Henan province was found, it is also known as "Yangshao." It is a characteristic which often ruins the discovery of painted pottery, and therefore known as the "painted pottery culture."

In the Banpo site of the excavation, the Banpo ancestors left us with a 45 housing sites, two livestock ring, 6 burning kiln sites, more than 200 storage of food and debris kiln cave, in addition to adults jar coffin tombs and children, and more than 10,000 pieces of Neolithic tools of human life. Banpo discovery opened for us the mystery of prehistoric human activity, with these relics unearthed in 1953, so that we can see the layout of the Banpo village in times, but also know that the people do not know how to keep livestock, but also know how to use the kiln for firing pottery.

People are living in the village center, surrounded by a depth of approximately three or four meters wide and two or three meters of trenches, although not build walls, but apparently that is used to ward off foreign invaders and the beast of the defense project. In the trenches, surrounded by Yangshao Banpo people live in the era of using soil caused by soil room, which looks like a yurt of the mud house, although not as strong western Fujian Tulou region, but he was the technology is concerned, has been regarded as advanced, and such a mud house, a bit like the African continent, Central natives house. In the Banpo, can be built mud house to live demonstration of the Liu Qiannian ago, the area is dry weather, otherwise when the rain comes, mud house into a mud room, and outside it rains inside, began to rain!

Jar coffin on children placed in these territories room in front of the Neolithic developed in medicine, child mortality is a more common thing, perhaps out of motherly love, then people think there is always the children who died at the resurrection day, Therefore, the child's body placed in earthenware pots, the set aside land outside the room. Perhaps the relationship between the matriarchal society, the mother's love is always stronger in all, it is envisaged is always a caring and hope in the resurrection, when the child can receive timely maternal care.

Banpo year's society is matriarchal, led by a female social structure. In the Banpo age, women also has an important role in society, they are primarily responsible for collecting wild fruits, dig eggs, system, pottery, textiles, etc., it can be deduced, when the women are bound to have a more solid posture, though probably no modern Bodybuilding girl-like figure, but at least they are solid muscle. Banpo age of men is responsible for going out hunting, fishing work. And social rights in the end is when converted to the hands of men from the women's hands? This is worth elegant, but this work should be left to social historians to study.

Into the Banpo Museum, not far from the center of the square can, can see a girl with the sharp end of Banpo pottery in the Kap Shui Yu Wen statue, this statue beautiful posture, such as the classic beauties like, unlike the Banpo time working women, if not Nazhiyuwen tip at the end of bottle, how to look both like "beauty Sha." Fish, is a totem worshiped Banpo people, so most of them painted their vessels have Yuwen image. It turned out that the earliest Chinese people is to fish as a totem to worship, from the fish into a totem totem Jackie Chan should be a thing of the Yellow Emperor during the bar!

To the Banpo Museum, did not go to visit the kiln site, then you have not seen the Banpo site. The Tao is the Banpo Banpo people's pride, and their ceramic technology has reached a certain extent, advanced level, even the later Shang Dynasty, it was just an open-air burning pottery only. Such a dating has always been to wait until Spring and Autumn Period there again. Banpo site of the kiln has horizontal hole kiln and earthen kiln hours, when its structure can be divided into Higuchi mechanized, fire barrels, kiln operator, fire Road and kiln room five parts. Cross-hole kiln kiln room in the fire chamber of the side of the fire chamber was a long horizontal cylindrical kiln wall holes surrounded by dozens of fire, fire from the fire hole coming down the kiln to the kiln in order to increase the temperature of the kiln . Earthen kiln kiln room in the fire chamber above the bottom of the kiln chamber kiln operator, there are more than a dozen fire hole, as we have a furnace inside the middle of isolation between the isolation layer of charcoal and charcoal plays an Fang Cheng Tao embryo purposes. By Higuchi, fire the flames came through the fire bore Road, operator-hole into the kiln room.

However, the half-broken sites to the most profound experience I have is that it indirectly as I opened a Chinese "mother culture" of the mystery, the Chinese people to the Yellow River known as the Mother River, into their national languages as their mother tongue, mother Day off than Father's Day to be on fire, and on behalf of the mother's flower is the carnation, but on behalf of his father's flower What is this? Why not the mother river he called to his father? Why not the father called to their mother tongue language? Study of its roots, such behavior is not the performance of a return of human nature? If our social structure, like the times have been surrounding the Banpo matriarchal society, the war will be less?

Banpo civilization discarded, it remains a mystery inextricably linked, if one day you come here, perhaps you'll find Banpo other clues left behind by civilization.

Pen on: Xi'an old Sun House

Author: tanpei