The settlement is a product of the man-land relationship,and the selection of places for building settlements must satisfy the demand of human survival.In the Xinglongwa and Zhaobaogou cultures(a.8000—6000 BP),people...The settlement is a product of the man-land relationship,and the selection of places for building settlements must satisfy the demand of human survival.In the Xinglongwa and Zhaobaogou cultures(a.8000—6000 BP),people made a living mainly by gathering,fishing and hunting,and their settlements were located within the boundary of timberland suitable to those economic activities.Investigation shows that these settlements were largely concentrated on hill-slopes at a height of 400—600 m above sea level,while the mountain summits and river valleys beyond the limits played a part in this respect only during certain periods.Meanwhile,the West Liaohe River valley was one of the birthplaces of civilization.In the Hongshan and Upper Xiajiadian cultures(a.6000—3000 BP),the weather was becoming cold and dry,primitive agriculture increased its proportion in the means of subsistence,and the population grew step by step,all of which caused the distribution of settlements to be expanded from timberland to lower grassland.In the Hongshan culture,farming began to play the leading role,whereas by the Upper Xiajiadian period,it had been supplemented by animal husbandry.Every change in the mode of man’s getting food was embodied in the relationship between the settlement and the environment:Gathering,fishing and hunting were entirely dependent on natural environment;the agriculture’s joining in decreased man’s dependence on the natural world;and the breakthrough in the selection of the environment of settlements by expanding living space from timberland was just a result of promotion by agricultural production.Both the duration of settlement function and the alteration of settlement culture prove that the man-land relationship in the prehistoric West Liaohe River valley was kept in a state of relative balance.Either gathering,fishing and hunting in the Xinglongwa and Zhaobaogou cultures or agricultural production from the Hongshan period did not break through the environmental content of this region.The gathering,fishing a展开更多
Original ecological culture is a cultural form in the period which agriculture occurred in.It is the relative nature of cultural forms that human created to meet the nature,and is a way of life in agricultural age of ...Original ecological culture is a cultural form in the period which agriculture occurred in.It is the relative nature of cultural forms that human created to meet the nature,and is a way of life in agricultural age of mankind.Agricultural society refers to the social form in which farming is the main mode of production patterns.Nature,stability,self-sufficiency is an important farming society feature.Farming community is an ancient form of society,the original ecological culture is a cultural form that produced and formed spontaneously in the ancient farming society,its features include:nature,ruralism,non-government,stable inheritance and regionality.展开更多
文摘The settlement is a product of the man-land relationship,and the selection of places for building settlements must satisfy the demand of human survival.In the Xinglongwa and Zhaobaogou cultures(a.8000—6000 BP),people made a living mainly by gathering,fishing and hunting,and their settlements were located within the boundary of timberland suitable to those economic activities.Investigation shows that these settlements were largely concentrated on hill-slopes at a height of 400—600 m above sea level,while the mountain summits and river valleys beyond the limits played a part in this respect only during certain periods.Meanwhile,the West Liaohe River valley was one of the birthplaces of civilization.In the Hongshan and Upper Xiajiadian cultures(a.6000—3000 BP),the weather was becoming cold and dry,primitive agriculture increased its proportion in the means of subsistence,and the population grew step by step,all of which caused the distribution of settlements to be expanded from timberland to lower grassland.In the Hongshan culture,farming began to play the leading role,whereas by the Upper Xiajiadian period,it had been supplemented by animal husbandry.Every change in the mode of man’s getting food was embodied in the relationship between the settlement and the environment:Gathering,fishing and hunting were entirely dependent on natural environment;the agriculture’s joining in decreased man’s dependence on the natural world;and the breakthrough in the selection of the environment of settlements by expanding living space from timberland was just a result of promotion by agricultural production.Both the duration of settlement function and the alteration of settlement culture prove that the man-land relationship in the prehistoric West Liaohe River valley was kept in a state of relative balance.Either gathering,fishing and hunting in the Xinglongwa and Zhaobaogou cultures or agricultural production from the Hongshan period did not break through the environmental content of this region.The gathering,fishing a
文摘Original ecological culture is a cultural form in the period which agriculture occurred in.It is the relative nature of cultural forms that human created to meet the nature,and is a way of life in agricultural age of mankind.Agricultural society refers to the social form in which farming is the main mode of production patterns.Nature,stability,self-sufficiency is an important farming society feature.Farming community is an ancient form of society,the original ecological culture is a cultural form that produced and formed spontaneously in the ancient farming society,its features include:nature,ruralism,non-government,stable inheritance and regionality.
