Hemudu people live a settled life, living in houses with dry fences, carrying people by boats and rafts, collecting things and floating water, using wooden tools such as knives, knives, hammers, shovels, spears, bowls, pipes, sticks, handles, spinning wheels and butterfly devices, planting artificial rice, raising pigs, dogs and buffaloes, and digging wells.

Among artificial products, stone tools are few, mainly hunting tools such as axes and ornaments. There are many kinds of woodwork and bone wares, among which the earliest wooden ornament "woodcarving fish" in China was found. Others include plows with wooden handles, cutting tools such as knives and shovels, and a large number of textile tools.

Cooking method

Archaeological data show that Hemudu people mainly cook food by roasting, boiling and steaming.

Roasting is one of the most primitive and simple cooking methods. You don't need any cookers. You can cook animal meat and plant fruits directly in the fire.

During the excavation of Qijiashan site, which is only 1 km away from Hemudu site, two remains of Hemudu people's barbecue food were found. A relic is on the flat ground, which is made up of some messy branches. Among them, the branches in the middle have traces of being burned, and baked bones and leftovers are scattered around. Other relics were originally ash pits. After half of the deposition, people filled a layer of stone on it as barbecue noodles, and a layer of ash was mixed with fish bones and animal bones, and some bones were blackened by fire.