China News Service, Suzhou, June 28 (Reporter Zhong Sheng) The ruins of wooden bones and mud walls are fascinating; rice thrives under the nourishment of water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River, just like the ancient rice fields on this land more than 6,000 years ago.
On the 28th, the Caoxieshan Archaeological Site Park in Suzhou Industrial Park was officially opened. People crossed the gate of time, experienced the prehistoric Longmu life, and explored the origin of the land of fish and rice.
Wang Wei believes that the Caoxieshan site is a complete "book from the ground" of the historical development of the Yangtze River Delta region, and has a milestone significance in archaeology.
Photo by Chen Yuhe
The Caoxieshan site is located in the northeast of Weiting Town, Suzhou, with a total area of about 450,000 square meters. It is the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
From 1992 to 1995, archaeologists from China and Japan carried out the earliest rice field archaeological work in China at the Caoxieshan site, where they discovered the site of a rice field more than 6,000 years ago.
This is the first time in the world that a rice field with an irrigation system has been discovered, causing a sensation at home and abroad.
Therefore, the Caoxieshan site is also known as "the ruler of Jiangnan prehistoric culture" and "the hometown of the world's rice farming culture".
Wang Wei, director of the History Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chairman of the Chinese Archaeological Society, believes that the Caoxieshan site has benchmark significance for the study of the civilization process and the origin of the country in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
The Caoxieshan site is the central settlement of the prehistoric culture in the south of the Yangtze River. The site preserves the complete development sequence of the prehistoric culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and reproduces the development history of prehistoric humans in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Archaeological landmark.
In addition to the display of unearthed cultural relics, in order to reflect the characteristics of "the original hometown of the world's rice farming culture", the site park has restored prehistoric ancient rice fields, so that people can experience the "noon on the day of hoeing and harvesting" more than 6,000 years ago. .
The immersive archaeological research allows everyone to learn how archaeologists strip the cocoons and piece together the stories that happened on this land with archaeological evidence one by one.
The ruins of Cao Xie Mountain show the life scenes of ancestors more than 6,000 years ago.
Photo by Chen Yuhe
It is understood that in the future, Suzhou Industrial Park will deeply excavate and study the cultural connotation of Caoxie Mountain, focus on key work such as the construction of heritage parks, archaeological excavation and research, and brand promotion activities, tell the origin story of Caoxie Mountain's "Jiangnan Culture", and strive to make Caoxie Mountain archaeological. The site park is built into a national archaeological site park that has a certain representative in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River around the Taihu Lake, displays the prehistoric culture in the south of the Yangtze River, continues to carry out archaeological excavations, has a great influence in the archaeological field, and is deeply loved by the public.
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