Chapter 5 Hemudu Culture

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During the fourth tribal rule, Jiang Ming, a descendant of the Jiang family, was the leader of the tribal alliance. Its tribe (tribe name unknown) reigned for years.

During the fifth tribal rule, Jiang Yi, a descendant of the Jiang family, was the leader of the tribal alliance. Its tribe (tribe name unknown) reigned for years.

During the sixth tribal rule, Jiang Lai, a descendant of the Jiang family, was the leader of the tribal alliance. Its tribe (tribe name unknown) reigned for years.

The latter two tribal reigning eras will be introduced later, first introducing the historical relics of the Yandi era:

Hemudu Culture: Zhejiang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Time: years. Typical site: Hemudu site in Yuyao, Zhejiang.

The building form is mainly a dry column building with pile slabs higher than the ground. Reflecting the high temperature and humid living environment in the south, the pole-and-railed house is one of the important architectural forms since the Neolithic period south of the Yangtze River in China, and it is the earliest dry-column building found at present. There is a marked difference from the semi-crypt houses of the same period in the northern region.

Household utensils, mainly pottery, and a small amount of wood. Black pottery is a major feature of Hemudu pottery. Stone tools are mainly hunting tools such as axes, but there are also ornaments.

The production technology of black pottery is complex, when it is fired to 1000 degrees Celsius, it is necessary to seal the kiln to reduce the air ingress, so that the red color of iron oxide is reduced to gray divalent iron, and the unburned carbon black makes the ceramsite fill the fine pores in the pottery body, which is conducive to the durability of the pottery body. Further development of this technology led to the knowledge of copper metal obtained by reducing the smelting of ores. Therefore, archaeology once believed that black pottery was the predecessor of bronze ware.

The pottery of Hemudu culture is mainly charcoal black pottery, with a small amount of sand and muddy gray pottery, all of which are handmade and fired at a temperature of C. There are kettles, pots, cups, plates, bowls, basins, jars, bowls, stoves, covers, supports, cups, retorts, tripods, etc., which can be divided into cookers, eating utensils, storage utensils, and water drawers according to the use function. There are two kinds of special ones: stove and cup. The pottery stove resembles a dustpan and has three milk-nailed feet on the inner wall, which is set up for the placement of the kettle. After the invention of the pottery stove, it solved the problem of fire prevention in the wooden building, and was the predecessor of the cylinder stove that was used by the southern residents in later generations. There are often rope patterns and scratches on the surface of the instrument. There are some painted pottery, painted with variants of brown and black-brown plant patterns.

The pattern of rice ears is printed on the pottery pot with rice ears, and the curved rice ear pattern makes people imagine that people in the Hemudu period had already begun to cultivate rice. The cultivation of rice has made it possible to accumulate a large amount of surplus grain in society, and with it comes the emergence of a gap between the rich and the poor. The development of culture has also entered a new stage.

There are many wooden and bone tools, among which the earliest wooden ornament "wood carved fish" in China has been found, and other cutting tools such as ploughing tools and knives and shovels made of wooden handles and bones, as well as a large number of textile tools. At the same time, the earliest lacquerware found in China was unearthed.

Many piles, columns, beams, boards and other building wood components were unearthed, and there were processed tenons, tenons (holes), tongues and grooves, pins, etc., which showed the outstanding woodworking technology at that time. The small squares protruding from both ends of the column are called tenons, and the holes carved out of the columns to insert the tenons are called tenons. The two types of timber joints found at the site are amazing and are still used in carpentry today. One is the tongue and groove board, the tongue and groove can be spliced together without revealing the gaps, and the tongue and groove board found in the site has a tongue on each side, which can be connected with another side of the thin plank, and now our wooden floors are still spliced in this way. The other is the pin hole, the tenon with the pin hole and the joint of the beam and column intersect vertically, and the tenon will not come out of the joint with the dowel. The construction technology of the Hemudu site can be said to have laid the foundation for Chinese wooden construction.

The wooden paddles found at the site prove that they were used for boats, and may have been used for fishing and hunting activities in addition to transportation.

The excavations of spinning wheels, cloth rolling sticks with chipping at both ends, fusiform utensils and machine knives belong to the primitive loom accessories, indicating that the Neolithic people invented primitive machinery by hand weaving.

The production of bone tools is more progressive, there are utensils such as rake, fish dart, arrowhead, whistle, dagger, cone, saw-shaped device, etc., carefully polished, some of the handled bone dagger, the bone flute carved pattern or double-headed conjoined bird pattern, just like the exquisite practical handicrafts. The most representative agricultural tool is the "bone rake", which is made from the shoulder blades of deer and buffalo.

Quite a few bone whistles have been unearthed, which is a musical instrument and a hunting tool that simulates the sounds of animals when hunting. In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, you can also see a kind of bamboo whistle made of small bamboo pipes and making birdsong sounds, which is obviously the remains of the Hemudu bone whistle.

Tao Xun is also the unearthed relics of Hemudu, Xun body is duck egg shaped, hollow, there is a small blowing hole at one end, it is also an ancient Chinese musical instrument, the ocarina peddled in the tourist area on the market is similar to this, but the Tao Xun of Hemudu only has blowing holes and no sound holes, which shows its primitiveness.

The social economy of Hemudu culture is mainly based on rice agriculture, and is also engaged in animal husbandry, gathering, fishing and hunting. The most representative of the agricultural tools of Hemudu culture is the extensive use of plows. There are also many animal and plant remains unearthed in the site, such as: acorns, water chestnuts, peaches, sour dates, gourds, barley rice, fungus rice and algae plant remains.

The pottery bowl resembles a wine jug, with a cupola tubular mouth in front and a horn mouthpiece in the back, and a flat half-earring in the middle. The inside and outside of the wall are polished smoothly and finely made, and there is still a high value of art appreciation today. Most experts believe that this is a drinking vessel. The appearance of wine vessels shows that the agricultural harvest is more abundant than before, and there is surplus grain to make wine.

The original artworks unearthed from the Hemudu site are not only large in number, but also have a wide range of themes, unique shapes, and rich and colorful contents. It is mainly manifested in ivory carvings and pottery ornamentation, especially some ivory carvings, with smooth lines and beautiful shapes, which are breathtaking. One of the most striking is an ivory saucer with the pattern of "Two Birds Facing the Sun", which is 16.6 cm long, 5.9 cm wide and 1.1 cm thick, with the upper half mutilated and the bottom slightly mutilated. The middle of the front is engraved with 5 concentric circles of different sizes, the upper end of the outer circle is engraved with a blazing flame pattern, symbolizing the light of the sun, and there is a bird with a hooked beak on each side to embrace the sun, and the edge of the utensil is also engraved with feathers. The image layout of the whole artifact is rigorous, the carving technology is skillful, the image is vivid and expressive, and the meaning is intriguing, which is the boutique of Hemudu's original art.