China News Service, Lanzhou, July 20 (Zhang Jing and Li Zhiwei) On the 20th, an exhibition of cultural relics unearthed from the Majiayao site was held in Lintao County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, where the site was discovered.
Li Yuhong, director of the Lintao County Museum, said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that the exhibition featured 50 unearthed cultural relics, showing the accumulation of cultural layers in different regions of the Majiayao site to audiences and scholars for the first time, as well as the distribution and preservation of the relics and relics. .
"This plays a key role in exploring the unique role of Majiayao culture in the intersection of Chinese and Western civilizations and the origin of Chinese civilization, enhancing the influence of Gansu cultural brands, and expanding the popularity and reputation of Majiayao culture in the country and the world. "Li Yuhong said that this exhibition focuses on the excavation results of the Majiayao and Siwa sites in recent years. It systematically shows that from 2014 to 2017, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Gansu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology were held in Majia. Archaeological excavation results of the kiln site.
Li Yuhong said that the above-mentioned cultural relics "reappeared in full dress" are mainly pottery, bone and stoneware represented by unusual fire jars and gray earthenware vases.
In particular, the rich patterns on the unearthed colored pottery reveal the process of Majiayao culture's independence from Yangshao culture and gradually forming its own unique cultural features, showing the history of Majiayao ruins in the history of Chinese archaeology, the process of civilization in the Northwest, and the east The value of cultural exchanges and other aspects.
The Majiayao site is located on the west bank of the Tao River, 12 kilometers south of Lintao County. The site is a site from the late Neolithic period.
In January 1988, it was announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council, with a total area of more than 90,000 square meters.
In 1924, the Swedish scholar Anderson discovered the Majiayao site in Majiayao Village on the west bank of the Tao River and named this culture the Yangshao Culture of Gansu.
In 1945, the famous archaeologist Mr. Xia Nai came to Lintao Majiayao site to excavate and named the Majiayao culture.
Chen Yuefang, member of the Standing Committee of the Dingxi Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, said that Majiayao culture, as a shining pearl in the long river of human civilization, was named after it was first discovered in Majiayao Village, Lintao County, Dingxi City. It is the most discovered and widely distributed in Gansu. , The most representative cultural site in the middle and late Neolithic period, about 4000 to 5300 years ago, known as the "Yangshao Culture of Gansu", and recognized by the academic circles as two cultural rich mines in Gansu that are as famous as the Dunhuang culture one.
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