How old are the stone pillars of the oldest city-state in China?

The stone pillars of the oldest city-state in China have a history of 5300 years.

The plain in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River has stepped into the road of civilization 6,000 years ago, and has successively entered the stage of pre-national society and early ancient national society, giving birth to the first city in East Asia. By 5500 years ago, we could have discussed it. At this time, the joint city-state network with Zhucheng as the regional center has taken shape.

The absolute age is from the end of 5,000 BC to the beginning of 4,000 BC, and the regional settlements are networked and clustered. Specialized production has emerged, such as irrigation agriculture, architecture (including large-scale high-rise buildings, city walls, moats and wharf buildings in theocracy center), stone tools, pottery making, copper smelting, textiles, paint making and jade processing.

The initial stage of the ancient system

In the middle of 4000 BC, people who had initially laid the foundation of nationalization started from Dongting Plain, crossed the Yangtze River to the western Hubei platform, and then crossed the Han River to the south edge of Dahongshan in the Northern Han Dynasty.

In this context, large-scale sites with the same technology and cultural system as Kuiyang and Dongting Plain in Li Shu began to appear in Jianghan area, such as Guanmiao Mountain, Yinxiang City and Jingnan Temple. Large-scale settlements such as Qujialing and Youziling appeared in the Northern Han area. Tianmen Longzui was built in the middle of 4000 BC, and almost at the same time, Dengjiawan and Tan Jialing were built one after another.

Jianghan and Hanbei areas showed a high level of social and cultural development from the beginning, and the settlement life developed steadily, indicating that the earliest pioneers came prepared before moving in and had rich experience in farming and settlement.