Yin Ruins, formerly known as "Northern Mongolia", is the capital site of China in the late Shang Dynasty, located in Anyang City, Henan Province. Since the scientific excavation of Yin Ruins in September1year, archaeologists have cleared more than 20,000 Shang tombs. "The number of funerary objects unearthed from a single tomb is the largest, representing the development level, ideas, activities and technical level of the late Shang Dynasty culture.

At the beginning of 20th century, Yin Ruins were famous for the excavation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. A large number of architectural sites in the capital and rich cultural relics represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronzes were unearthed, which systematically displayed the splendid bronze civilization in the late Shang Dynasty in China and established the scientific status of Yin-Shang society as a history of trust. It was rated as the first "100 major archaeological discovery" in China in the 20th century.

2. Yangshao Cultural Site in Henan Province

Located at the foot of Shaoshan Mountain in the north of Mianchi County, Henan Province, 9 kilometers away from the county seat. Among the relics, there are more fragments of pottery and fewer stone tools and bones. A long single-edged stone knife and a stone spinning wheel with a round hole in the middle; There are bone trowels, bone gouges and bone needles.

The painted pottery unearthed in this site is complicated, so it is painted with white pottery clothes first and then colored. Painted patterns include rice pattern, string pattern, X pattern, checkered pattern and dot pattern, which are similar to Miaodigou and belong to Yangshao cultural site in Neolithic age. 1978 is listed as a county-level cultural relics protection unit.

3. Jiahu site

Jiahu Village is located at the southwest 1.5km of Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County, Henan Province. It is an important site in the early Neolithic period in China. The results of luminescence dating show that it is about 9000-7500 years ago, with an area of 55000 square meters, and it was only discovered in the early 1960s.

It is a large-scale, well-preserved and extremely rich cultural heritage in the early Neolithic period. More than 30 bone flutes have been unearthed at Jiahu site, which is the earliest and most well-preserved wind instrument in the world. Through the attachments on the pottery unearthed from Jiahu site, it is found that Jiahu people had mastered the brewing method of wine 9000 years ago, which also filled the blank of world wine culture.

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Among the relics unearthed from Jiahu site, * * * found more than ten cases of carved symbols, which were carved on nails and bones respectively. Experts believe that the strokes of these carved symbols are consistent with those of Chinese characters, and the writing characteristics are horizontal first, vertical later, left first, right later, which conforms to the basic structure of Chinese characters. It is the earliest physical data related to the origin of characters found in the world.

Jia Hu's inscription provides new evidence for the key issue of the origin of Chinese characters, which is considered to be more than 4,000 years earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yinxu, Anyang, and earlier than the earliest papyrus script in ancient Egypt, which is called the world's earliest script.

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