Research On The Culture Of Yuxi Ping

After Chongqing area entered the late Neolithic Age, Yuxi Ping culture begun to occupy the stage of history, Yuxi Ping culture originated 5300-4600 years ago, about the same age with Qujialing culture in Jianghan Plain, was the heyday of the Neolithic culture in Chongqing area and its cultural distribution throughout the whole area of Chongqing. The naming of Yuxi Ping culture was first proposed in 2003, named after the typical sites —Yuxi Ping sites, Yuxi Ping culture was the widest distribution and the most abundant cultural accumulation of prehistoric culture in Chongqing area of Neolithic culture.Yuxi Ping culture developed from the upper culture of Yuxi and eventually evolved into the Zhongba culture. Sandy ware is the main trait of Yuxi culture, the early period was characterized by roll ware and the latter was fold ware, in the end, is tend to evolved into disk mouthparts. The development and evolution of the whole culture has a significant stage feature. Yuxi Ping culture was a high openness prehistoric culture, except in Chongqing area, it’s also interacted with Qujialing culture in Jianghan Plain-. Miaodigou 2nd period culture in Guanzhong area and Ying Pan Shang culture in west sichuan plateau to some extent, absorbed each other’s cultural factors to enrich their cultural connotations.Yuxi Ping culture primitive agriculture has produced, from the stone reflects the ancestors of the Yuxi Ping culture has already planted crops as a supplementary source of food, but due to the environment and location, gathering, hunting and fishing economy still occupied a dominant position, the ancestors of the Yuxi Ping culture has begun to domesticated livestock, animal bones unearthed in most dogs and pigs.