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What are the fishing and hunting cultures in China?

There are two fishing and hunting cultures in total*** China. This culture was developed on the basis of the fishing and hunting economy. It is the accumulation of civilization, which has no fixed form, or material, or spiritual, or thinking, and can prove the existence of a nation and the characteristics of that nation.

Fishing and hunting culture has long been documented at a very early stage. Chinese poems from the Classic of Poetry and the Southern Dynasty depicted fish and their living environment in beautiful words and phrases. In the cultural memory of the Chinese people, it exists in three forms: literary, graphic and popular, forming a special culture and making fish a beautiful symbol of love. In ancient poems, fish are often used as a comparison and a starting point. In ancient times, fish was used as a gift to others to symbolize a good year, and in later generations, fish was also used as a metaphor for harmonious interpersonal relationships.

There is one representative site of the fishing and hunting culture. One is located in Heilongjiang's Angangxi site, discovered in the late 1920s, totaling *** thirty-nine sites. There, archaeologists found a number of fish bones and other specimens, known as a representative of the fishing and hunting culture.

There are two representative cultures of the fishing and hunting culture. One is the Herzhe culture, located in the triangle area formed by the Heilongjiang, Songhua and Ussuri rivers. The food source of this ethnic group has always been fishing. They are very fond of fish, with raw fish being the most popular. Not only is their staple food fish, even the clothes they wear are made of fish skin. This way of life of the Herzhe people has also formed the culture of fishing and hunting. Because of their traditional and backward fishing props and low efficiency, they are only self-sufficient in fishing for their own consumption. They believe in shamanism, so they do not ask too much for natural resources.

One is the Yunnan fishing and hunting culture. The natural environment of Yunnan is relatively harsh, full of high mountains and deep valleys, so the ethnic groups living in Yunnan, in addition to agricultural production, they will also meet the needs of survival through fishing. In order to be able to fish more efficiently, they also invented a more convenient fishing tools, and learned a lot of martial arts, so as to get more food.