Multi-headed Red Mountain Culture

Cirrus moire painted clay pot Xiajiadian lower culture

Double-hole stone knife and small riverside culture

Yuzhan Hongshan Culture

Reporter Yu Xiwen

The "Source of Millet and the Dawn of Civilization - Exhibition of Fine Cultural Relics of Prehistoric Culture in the West Liaohe River Basin" jointly organized by the Cross-Lake Bridge Site Museum and the Hongshan Folk Museum is being carried out at the Cross-Lake Bridge Site Museum by Xianghu Lake.

The West Liao River Basin is located in the southeast of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in the transition zone from the Inner Mongolia Plateau to the plain. The north is the southern mountainous area of the Great Khing'an Mountains, the southwest is the Yanshan Mountain area, the northwest is the Qilaotu Mountain, the south is the Nurur Tiger Mountain, and the east is connected with the Northeast Plain. The landform is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the middle is plain, the terrain is high in the west and low in the east, and the type is complex. The special natural geographical environment gave birth to the ancient civilization here.

About 7000 years ago, there was a human settlement here; About 0 years ago, there was the dawn of human civilization here; About 0 years ago, it has transitioned from slash-and-burn farming to primitive agriculture, and the image of a dragon has appeared, becoming one of the origins of Chinese dragon culture; Five or six thousand years ago, it was on the threshold of civilization; Four or five thousand years ago, it entered the early city-state primitive state, and the hierarchical social system and Bronze Age civilization that were equally developed in the Central Plains region appeared.

From 2700 to 0 years, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences carried out three archaeological excavations at the Xinglonggou site of Aohanqi, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and obtained the seeds of carbonized millet and millet that had been artificially cultivated through flotation, and it was found that it was about 0 years ago. Archaeological experts believe that this is the earliest known dryland agriculture in the world, which spread from east to west through the northern steppe passage to Europe, 0 years earlier than the grains in Central Europe, and was the spread of dryland agriculture before the steppe Silk Road.

The exhibition focuses on the prehistoric civilization of the West Liao River Basin, displaying 184 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, covering pottery, jade, stone tools and other categories, systematically presenting the cultural sequence of the region from the Neolithic Age to the early Bronze Age, revealing the social life and spiritual beliefs of the ancestors of the West Liao River. It is divided into three chapters, "Archaeological Culture of the West Liaohe River Basin", "Civilization Imprint of the Source of the Liaohe River", and "Exchange, Interaction, Convergence and Integration", focusing on the classic types of stoneware, pottery and jade in the archaeological culture of the West Liaohe River Basin. Highlights include pottery statues of the Hongshan culture, double-hole stone knives of the Xiaoheyan culture, and ring-shaped jade of the Xinglongwa culture.

The exhibition will last until 28/0.