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Yangshao culture
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}}The Yangshao culture ({{zh|c=ä»°é¶æå|p=YÇngsháo wénhuà }}) was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC. The culture is named after the Yangshao site, the first excavated site of this culture, which was discovered in 1921 in the town of Yangshao in western Henan by the Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874â1960).WEB,weblink Yangshao Culture Museum, 2018-04-13, 2018-04-13,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180413125334weblink">weblink dead, The culture flourished mainly in Henan, as well as the neighboring provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi.Recent research indicates a common origin and spread of the Sino-Tibetan languages with the Cishan, Yangshao or Majiayao cultures.JOURNAL, Zhang, Menghan, Yan, Shi, Pan, Wuyun, Pan Wuyun, Jin, Li, Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic, Nature, 24 April 2019, 569, 7754, 112â115, 10.1038/s41586-019-1153-z, 31019300, 2019Natur.569..112Z, 129946000, JOURNAL, Bradley, David, David Bradley (linguist), Subgrouping of the Sino-Tibetan languages, 10th International Conference on Evolutionary Linguistics, Nanjing University, 27â28 October 2018, JOURNAL, LaPolla, Randy, Randy LaPolla, The origin and spread of the Sino-Tibetan language family, Nature, 2019, 569, 7754, 45â47, 10.1038/d41586-019-01214-6, 31036967, en, 0028-0836, free, 2019Natur.569...45L, {{sfnp|Sagart|Jacques|Lai|Ryder|2019|pp=10319â10320}}File:The origin and spread of the Sino-Tibetan language family.png|300px|thumb|Red oval is the late Cishan and the early Yangshao cultures. After applying the linguistic comparative method to the database of comparative linguistic data developed by Sagart|Jacques|Lai|Ryder|2019|pp=10319â10320}}| c = ä»°é¶æå
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Economy
Subsistence
The main food of the Yangshao people was millet, with some sites using foxtail millet and others proso millet, though some evidence of rice has been found. The exact nature of Yangshao agriculture, small-scale slash-and-burn cultivation versus intensive agriculture in permanent fields, is currently a matter of debate. Once the soil was exhausted, residents picked up their belongings, moved to new lands, and constructed new villages.BOOK, Worlds Together Worlds Apart, Pollard, Elizabeth, W.W. Norton & Company, 2015, 978-0-393-91847-2, 69â70, Middle Yangshao settlements such as Jiangzhi contain raised-floor buildings that may have been used for the storage of surplus grains. Grinding stones for making flour were also found.{{sfnp|Chang|1986|p=112}}The Yangshao people kept pigs and dogs. Sheep, goats, and cattle are found much more rarely.{{sfnp|Chang|1986|p=113}} Much of their meat came from hunting and fishing with stone tools.{{sfnp|Chang|1986|p=112}} Their stone tools were polished and highly specialized. They may also have practiced an early form of sericulture.{{sfnp|Chang|1986|p=113}}Crafts
The Yangshao culture crafted pottery: Yangshao artisans created fine white, red, and black painted pottery with human facial, animal, and geometric designs. Unlike the later Longshan culture, the Yangshao culture did not use pottery wheels in pottery-making. Excavations found that children were buried in painted pottery jars. Pottery style emerging from the Yangshao culture spread westward to the Majiayao culture, and then further to Xinjiang and Central Asia.JOURNAL, Zhang, Kai, The Spread and Integration of Painted pottery Art along the Silk Road, Region - Educational Research and Reviews, 4 February 2021, 3, 1, 18, 10.32629/RERR.V3I1.242, 234007445, The early cultural exchanges between the East and the West are mainly reflected in several aspects: first, in the late Neolithic period of painted pottery culture, the Yangshao culture (5000-3000 BC) from the Central Plains spreadwestward, which had a great impact on Majiayao culture (3000-2000 BC), and then continued to spread to Xinjiang and Central Asia through the transition of Hexi corridor, free, The Yangshao culture produced silk to a small degree and wove hemp. Men wore loin clothes and tied their hair in a top knot. Women wrapped a length of cloth around themselves and tied their hair in a bun. {{multiple image|perrow=2|total_width=400|caption_align=center| align = center| direction =horizontal| image1 = Banpo bowl.jpg| image2 = Banpo motif (B&W).pngHouses
(File:Jiangzhai settlement model.jpg|thumb|left|Jiangzhai settlement model, Yangshao culture)Houses were built by digging a rounded rectangular pit around one metre deep. Then they were rammed, and a lattice of wattle was woven over it. Then it was plastered with mud. The floor was also rammed down.File:Jiangzhai settlement model, Yangshao culture, Lintong, Shaanxi.jpg|thumb|A model of Jiangzhai, a Yangshao village]]Next, a few short wattle poles would be placed around the top of the pit, and more wattle would be woven to it. It was plastered with mud, and a framework of poles would be placed to make a cone shape for the roof. Poles would be added to support the roof. It was then thatched with millet stalks. There was little furniture; a shallow fireplace in the middle with a stool, a bench along the wall, and a bed of cloth. Food and items were placed or hung against the walls. A pen would be built outside for animals.Yangshao villages typically covered ten to fourteen acres and were composed of houses around a central square.Social structure
Although early reports suggested a matriarchal culture,BOOK, Roy, Kartik C.
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, Blomqvist, Hans C.
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, others argue that it was a society in transition from matriarchy to patriarchy, while still others believe it to have been patriarchal. The debate hinges on differing interpretations of burial practices.BOOK, Linduff, Katheryn M., Gender and Chinese Archaeology, 2004, AltaMira Press, 978-0-7591-0409-9, Yan Sun, 16â19, 244, BOOK, Jiao, Tianlong, Bettina, Arnold, Nancy L, Wicker, Gender and the Archaeology of Death, 2001, AltaMira Press, 978-0-7591-0137-1, 53â55, Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology, The discovery of a dragon statue dating back to the fifth millennium BC in the Yangshao culture makes it the world's oldest known dragon depiction,BOOK, Howard Giskin and Bettye S. Walsh, An introduction to Chinese culture through the family, State University of New York Press, 2001, 0-7914-5047-3, 126, and the Han Chinese continue to worship dragons to this day., Tisdell, C. A.
, Blomqvist, Hans C.
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Archaeological sites
{{Continental Asia in 5000 BCE|right|{{center|Yangshao culture and contemporary cultures and polities {{c.|5000 BC}}}}|{{Location map~|Continental Asia|lat=37|long=110.5|position=left|mark=Orange dot (semi-transparent).png|marksize=25}}}}Yangshao, in Mianchi County, Sanmenxia, western Henan, the place which gave the culture its name, has a museum next to the archaeological site.WEB,weblink Yangshao Culture Museum, é»æ², henan.chinadaily.com.cn, 2018-04-13, 2018-04-13,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180413125334weblink">weblink dead, The archaeological site of the village of Banpo near Xi'an is one of the best-known ditch-enclosed settlements of the Yangshao. Another major settlement called Jiangzhai was excavated out to its limits, and archaeologists found that it was completely surrounded by a ring-ditch. Both Banpo and Jiangzhai also yielded incised marks on pottery which a few have interpreted as numerals or perhaps precursors to Chinese characters,Woon, Wee Lee (1987). Chinese Writing: Its Origin and Evolution. Joint Publishing, Hong Kong.
but such interpretations are not widely accepted.Qiu Xigui (2000). Chinese Writing. Translation of æåå¸æ¦è« by Mattos and Jerry Norman. Early China Special Monograph Series No. 4. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. {{ISBN|978-1-55729-071-7}}.
Phases
The Yangshao culture is conventionally divided into three phases:- The Early Yangshao period or Banpo phase ({{Circa|5000}}â4000 BC) is represented by the Banpo, Jiangzhai, Beishouling and Dadiwan sites in the Wei River valley in Shaanxi.{{sfnp|Liu|Chen|2012|pp=190â191}}
- The Middle Yangshao period or Miaodigou phase ({{Circa|4000}}â3500 BC) saw an expansion of the culture in all directions, and the development of hierarchies of settlements in some areas, such as western Henan.{{sfnp|Liu|Chen|2012|pp=191â193}}
- The Late Yangshao period ({{Circa|3500}}â3000 BC) saw a greater spread of settlement hierarchies. The first wall of rammed earth in China was built around the settlement of Xishan (25 ha) in central Henan (near modern Zhengzhou).{{sfnp|Liu|Chen|2012|pp=193â194}}
Artifacts
Image:CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit - pottery ding.jpg|Ding, decorated with a string patternImage:YangshaoCordmarkedAmphoraBanpoPhase4800BCEShaanxi.jpg|Cordmarked amphora; 4800 BC (Banpo phase); Guimet Museum (Paris)Large water bottle. Late Yangshao-Early Majiayao. Museum Rietberg.jpg|Large water vessel of the late Yangshao culture or early Majiayao; from Shaanxi, Shanxi or Gansu province; 4th millennium BC; Rietberg Museum (Zürich, Switzerland)WLA haa Amphora China Neolithic 2.jpg|Red amphora with carrying handles; circa 5000 - 3000 BC; Honolulu Museum of Art (USA)Shijia hu.jpg|Pot; painted earthenware; in the Shijia style; Shaanxi History MuseumShijia pot with animal face or mask.1975.jpg|Pot; painted earthenware; height: 27.8 cm; in the Shijia style; Shaanxi History Museum å山类ååç¹çº¹å½©é¶å£¶.jpg|Dotted pottery pot, semi-mountain type; dating from 4700 to 4300 years; Gansu Provincial MuseumNational Museum of China 2014.02.01 14-44-45.jpg|Painted pottery basin; 5000-3000 BC; National Museum of ChinaPots,_Yangshao_culture,_neolithic_China,_c._2600-2300_BC,_ceramic_-_Ãstasiatiska_museet,_Stockholm_-_DSC09657.JPG|Pots, Yangshao culture; Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Ãstasiatiska museet), Stockholm.File:Bowl with ring handles. Earthenware painted with red and black mineral pigment. Yangshao Culture, Gansu Province. Neolithic period, 2600-2300 BCE. From the Garner Collection. Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg|An earthenware bowl painted with red and black mineral pigment with ring handles, Gansu Province, Neolithic period, Yangshao culture, from the Garner Collection, in the Victoria and Albert MuseumFile:Pottery pot with human and fish design from Neolithic age (9000 to 2000 BC). Found in Shaanxi province. Beijing Capital Museum.jpg|Pottery pot with human and fish design, Shaanxi province.File:Miaodigou urn,Yangshao culture.jpg|Coloured pottery pot depicting a stork, a fish, and a stone axe. Yangshao culture, Miaodigou phase (3900-3000 BC). Part of the List of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad.WEB,weblink 彩ç»é¹³é±¼ç³æ§å¾é¶ç¼¸, The Chinese Cultural Heritage Protection Web Site, 2023-05-29, 2019-09-07,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190907025818weblink">weblink dead, File:Openwork Design âNeolithic Period, Miaodigou Culture, 4,000-3,000 BCE.jpg|Miaodigou Culture mask, 3500 BCEFile:Puyang Dragon Burial.jpg|Puyang Dragon Burial, with the earliest depiction of a Dragon in China, Yangshao cultureSee also
{{commons category|Yangshao culture}}- List of Neolithic cultures of China
- Dawenkou culture
- Hemudu culture
- Majiayao culture
- Majiabang culture
- Hongshan culture
- Beifudi
- Xishuipo
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- PRESS RELEASE, May 6, 2019, Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research, ScienceDaily,weblink
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