Primitive Culture An important food production base in the country. 50,000 years ago in the Late Paleolithic Age, primitive human activities were already taking place here.

Sites of primitive human habitation have been found in places such as Jingshan Wusan Farm and Jigong Mountain, about five kilometers northeast of Jingzhou City.

In addition, a large number of stone tools have been unearthed from the Holocene gray-black soil layers in Jingshan, Zhongxiang, Jingzhou and other places, indicating that human activities in the Jianghan Plain at that time were already quite frequent.

When society developed into the Neolithic Age, the primitive culture in the Jianghan Plain became more developed and prosperous.

The three primitive cultures of Daxi Culture, Qujialing Culture and Shijiahe Culture constitute the main body of primitive culture in this area.

These three primitive cultures have left rich relics of human activities in the Jianghan Plain area. Among them, the Qujialing Culture and the Shijiahe Culture were first discovered and named in the Jianghan Plain. Although the Daxi Culture was first discovered in today's

The Daxi site in Wushan County, Chongqing City, but is also distributed over a large area in the Jianghan Plain area.

The understanding of the primitive culture of the Jianghan Plain is mainly achieved through the understanding of the various relics Jianghan Plain (3 photos) left by primitive humans.

Among these relics, there are not only relics from different eras and properties, but also various production tools and daily necessities.

The relics include not only the Paleolithic sites such as Jingzhou Jigong Mountain, Taihu Brick and Tile Factory and Jingshan Wusan Farm, but also the Shijiahe Site in Tianmen City, Xiantao Sand Lake, Songzi Osmanthus Tree, Zhongxiang Liuhe, Shishou Zoumaling, Jingshan Qu

Jialing, Youziling, Yinxiangcheng in Jingzhou, Wangjiagang in Gongan and other Neolithic sites.

The relics are mainly stone tools, pottery, jade, etc. used by primitive ancestors in their production and life.

The exhibits in this exhibition, including the ruins models, reproduce the social appearance and people's production and living conditions in the prehistoric era of the Jianghan Plain from different angles.

The Jianghan Plain located in the center of Hubei has good climate conditions, fertile land and rich products.

In ancient times, human beings lived and multiplied here and created developed culture and civilization. It is the birthplace of ancient culture in the Yangtze River Basin and even southern China, and is also one of the regions with the highest level of primitive cultural development in China.

?[4]? Modern history Grain and cotton cloth were the two main agricultural products that entered long-distance circulation during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

According to Wu Chengming's research, both items increased in the market during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the Qing Dynasty.

In the mid-Qing Dynasty, about 36 million shi of rice entered long-distance circulation every year. In addition to 6 million shi of grain, 30 million shi of rice was commercial grain, which was three times the amount that entered long-distance circulation in the late Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the Yangtze River Delta is the most important grain input area.

The second most important commodity is cotton cloth. 15% of all commercial cloths or 45 million pieces enter the long-distance circulation market every year.

According to Schultz's logic, as a region that produces both rice and cotton cloth, Jianghan Plain should respond more actively to this expanding market, increase production and export more rice and cotton cloth.

But as Wu shows, in the mid-18th century, only some wheat in northern Hubei (including parts of the Jianghan Plain) entered the long-distance trade; and Jianghan cotton cloth only accounted for a very small part of the long-distance trade (the proportion is unknown), and 90% of the cotton cloth was provided by Jiangnan.

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In fact, the Jianghan Plain rarely exported rice and grain after the early Qing Dynasty, and the cotton cloth it produced was mainly for local consumption (especially for farmers' own consumption).

As we will see below, in most cases, whether or not to get involved in the market is related to a variety of factors.

Immigrants from other places moved to Jianghan Plain mainly because there was a large amount of cultivated wasteland there.

Most of the new arrivals are war refugees or disaster victims, and people from places with high population density. Their main purpose of migrating is to survive.

Of course they hope to find a better life in this new place.

However, due to local water conservancy conditions, they had to adapt to the changing environment.

They cultivate land to obtain the resources for survival, rather than chasing market profits.

Although some small farmers are also involved in the market by planting cash crops, their behavior is seriously restricted by local environmental conditions.

Customs and Habits Jianghan Plain (3 photos) 1. Eating eels. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Jianghan Plain, eels must be eaten.

Monopterus eel is also known as eel, long fish, etc.

The eel during the Dragon Boat Festival is round and plump, the meat is tender and delicious, and it is rich in nutrients. It not only tastes good, but also has nourishing functions.

Therefore, there is a saying among the people that "eel competes with ginseng during the Dragon Boat Festival".