近年来,由于在杭州湾两岸和太湖周围的河姆渡和罗家角新石器时代遗址中发现种植水稻的事实,证明我国南方是稻作起源地之一。以陇山为中心的陇中黄土高原位于泾、渭河上游,它也是研究中华民族农业文化起源与发展方面值得注意的地区之一。

Recently, the No. 1-period Dadiwan cultural relics were found on the second terrace at the Qingshui River Valley, central Loess Plateau. By ¹⁴C dating the dates of the relics were between 7800-7355(?165) B.P., i.e., about 1000 years earlier than Banpo type of the Yangshao culture.Moreover, carbonated seeds of grains were found in the No. 1-period ash pit. They were ascertained to be the earliest crops of dry farming in China.One of the earliest agriculture of China is considered originating in the Qingshui River Valley of the Jinghe River and the Weihe River drainage. Then it expanded, ra-diately, to the Guanzhong basin, Huanghe River Delta, Changjiang River drainage, southward to the Zhujiang River Delta and the Guangxi Basin, northeast ward to the Song-liao Plain and northwest ward through the Hexi Corridor to the Xingjiang oases.