Urban Agglomeration around the Confluence of the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yellow River in the Late Yangshao Period and the Formation of the Pluralistic Integration of Chinese Civilization
The concept of culture is somewhat different from the concept of civilization.China has a cultural history of 10,000 years and a civilization history of more than 5,000 years.Chinese civilization history,which lasts more than 5,000 years,has been recognized with the progress of Chinese archaeology.From 5,300 years ago to 5,000 years ago,the ancient city of Liangzhu in Zhejiang province,the ancient city of Chengtoushan in Hunan prov-ince,the ancient city of Nanzuo in Gansu province,and the hundreds of thousands or even millions of square meters of capital settlements within the city sites,especially the Shuanghuaishu site in Gongyi,Henan province,and the huge settlements and city sites around it,all these ancient sites marked the formation of the Chinese civilization.The cultural relics,which have been excavated in Erlitou village,Yanshi town,Henan province,bear witness to the his-torical development in 1500 years from the ancient country of Shuanghuaishu to the kingdom of Xia dynasty,and demonstrate the pluralistic and integrated pattern of the origin of Chinese civilization.