The Majiayao site in Gansu, as the name of the Majiayao culture, is an important prehistoric cultural site in the northwest region.
Painted pottery is the most distinctive feature of Majiayao culture.
The thick and bright black, red and white colors are painted on the orange-yellow pottery base to form various flexible patterns.
In recent years, some scholars have compared Majiayao painted pottery with Central Asian painted pottery, and found that some decorative patterns are very similar. Based on this, they put forward the theory of "painted pottery road", that is, before the opening of the "Silk Road", painted pottery culture brought The exchange and integration of Chinese and Western cultures.
Let's walk into the Majiayao site and explore the painted pottery patterns in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the mystery of the "Zhuangshan" of painted pottery in Central Asia.
[Editor: Tian Bochuan]