简介

    Haiyuan county from the southwest and the line of departure, you will find that a little carefully hidden in the soil layer in the cave. Garden village for his discovery of a large number of known caves preserved, but also because 4,100 years ago unearthed the original wall, wood comb spine and other artifacts become famous Neolithic cultural relics of China.
    Unoccupied cave village now, these years, as living standards improve, more and more people moved into the shelter, cave ever disappear. "Distinguished guest came to my house together, laughing off my home without tile, kiln like Shenxian Dong, winter warm to cool in summer." Minyan last sentence reflected the spread of the cave owner's confidence in the circulation as the years have disappeared.
    Why will appear on the Loess Plateau of northwest cave dwellings that form? ? American journalist Anna Louise ? Strong in her "Chinese people to conquer China," a book gives the answer: the construction of low cost, can regulate the temperature. Armstrong added: "accustomed to a comfortable life, Americans can not laugh at the cave, the cave surrounded by compacted soils, cool." Crossing the Red Army led by Mao Zedong, then when the Xihaigu region, in six eastern foot of the cave spent his life in the first cave of the night.

"CAIYUAN" site, located south west of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Haiyuan County, located in the second step of the western Loess Plateau on the northern foot of South Mountain, elevation 1,800 meters, 15 kilometers

west of Haiyuan County. Is since 1984, Ningxia Cultural Relics Archaeological Institute in the region have been discovered in the census. Through the garden of their village sites to identify and organize a large number of original data, the results rewarding, and has achieved a breakthrough for the study of the Northwest Region of Ningxia and the Neolithic culture, and provides a rare basis and stratigraphic important kind of information.

March 1, 2005, Xinhua published a message like: The expert research, the human form of the earliest living underground - cave began Haiyuan. Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in archaeological research fellow, the famous ancient architecture expert Yang Hongxun that