Discovered in 1973, Hemudu Cultural Ruins, 7,000 years old, is an important village ruins in the Chinese New Stone Age. Now there are over 7,000 items of unearthed production tools, tools for daily life and construction components. Here are found the earliest human-grown rice, the earliest well of wood structure and the earliest weaving skill and the earliest oar.
The splendid primitive culture discovered in Hemudu is strong evidences of the fact that both the Yangtze River valley and Yellow River valley are the cradles of the Chinese civilization. The fact was written in the high school textbook of history in 1979.
Beside the Museum of Humudu Cultural Ruins which was open in 1994, there is under construction a "Ruins Park", the second phase of the project, occupying 2,3000 square meters with the total investment of 11 million yuan. The main content of the project includes the re-establishment of the unearthed sites of 2800 square meters, and the restoration of the four buildings of railing-style. The park aims at showing our ancestors' condition of life and work with splendid cultural traces.
The Museum of Humudu Cultural Ruins, inscribed by General Party Secretary Jiang Zemin, is a major historical and cultural site under state protection and also officially recommended as one of the 100 bases of patriotism education.
Ticket: 30 yuan (US$3.6)
Transportation: Taking expressway long-haul bus (shifted in every 30 minutes) at southern bus station of Ningbo.
(china.org.cn March 27, 2003)
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