Does the Hieroglyphic culture include the Yangshao and Erlitou cultures?

Heluo culture includes Yangshao culture and Erlitou culture.

I. Definition of Heluo Culture

Heluo Culture refers to the culture of the Heluo region in ancient China. Hailuo region south of the Fuyao Mountains, north of the Yellow River, west of the Qinling Mountains, east of the Yudong Plain, north of the Youyan, south of the Yangtze River and Huaihuai, in ancient times in the Central Plains, for the "world in the middle", the so-called "China" (the Western Zhou Hezun inscription), is the transportation hub of ancient China, the geographic location is very advantageous. The geographical position was very favorable. According to Mr. Xu Shunzhan, "the Heluo area includes the Inner Jiaojiaozhou and Outer Jiaojiaozhou where the Yellow River meets the Luo River, as well as the north bank of the Yellow River in southern Jin and northern Henan. The Hi-Luo cultural circle can reach into Guanzhong to the west, and to the east it can reach the east of Henan."

Mr. Zhu Shaohou once pointed out in his article "Hieroglyphic Culture and Hieroglyphic and Hakka People" that "as the Hieroglyphic Cultural Circle, it should actually exceed the scope of the Hieroglyphic region, i.e., it should encompass the entire area of the present Henan Province."

Heluo culture is profound and profound, referring to the regional culture that was created, developed, flourished, and inherited in the Heluo region and carried forward in the neighboring areas. Early Heluo culture includes colored pottery culture (Yangshao culture) and black pottery culture, as well as the mysterious and great wisdom of the "Hetu Luoshu", but also includes the culture of historians of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the system of rituals and music, and even more "hundred schools of thought" period of Confucianism, Taoism, law, military, agriculture, Yin and Wei, the culture of the Hundred Schools of thought. Heluo culture, as a kind of regional culture in China's ancient times, shows the unique charm of the Heluo area with its unique customs, religious beliefs and ideological origins. In two aspects, it can be said that it is poor inside and outside, incomparable. One is the ancient goblet culture derived from the "Hetu Luoshu"; the second refers to the political, economic, and living customs rooted in the Heluo area centered on the farming culture, as well as the resulting rituals, beliefs and other genesis of the culture.

Two, prehistoric culture

According to archaeological discoveries, in the Paleolithic period in the Hailuo area there are a large number of human activities, opened the Hailuo culture of the precedent. 1957 in the Sanmenxia ShuiGou and will be XingGou found in the Paleolithic Stone Age stone ruins, about one million years ago. 1961 and 1962 in the YuJin junction of the Ruicheng County, the earliest human cultural sites found in the West HouDu culture, the first human cultural sites, the first human cultural sites, the first human cultural sites. In 1961 and 1962, the earliest human cultural sites were discovered in Richeng County, Yu-Jin border, the Xihoudou culture, in which the earliest batch of stone artifacts in China were found, which were scientifically determined to be 1.8 million years old, which is much older than the human tooth fossils found in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province in 1965.In 1998, the Paleolithic site found in Beiyao Village, Luoyang City, excavated nearly 800 pieces of stone artifacts, and found a small number of fossilized animals and sites where humans used fire. This shows that the Heluo area is an important birthplace of human civilization. In the ancient times, human beings lived and prospered in the area of Heluo, and it was their unremitting efforts that created the Heluo culture, which is the primitive state of human beings.

After entering the Neolithic Age, the human remains in the Hailuo area became more colorful and rich, and the dawn of the Hailuo civilization began to shine in the east. During this period the civilizations in the Hi-Lo area mainly include Pei Li Gang Culture, Yangshao Culture, Longshan Culture and so on. Pei Ligang Culture is a culture in transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic Age, about 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. Its ruins were first discovered in 1977 in Peiligang Village, Xinzheng City. Subsequently, the Peiligang culture site was found several times in the western part of Henan Province, and the cultural relics unearthed were mainly stone labor tools and living pottery. 1921, the late Neolithic culture site was found in Yangshao Village, Mianchi County, in the western part of Luoyang City, which is about 5,000 to 7,000 years old. From the cultural relics it unearthed, it appears that people at that time were already living a sedentary life, beginning to focus on agricultural production and raising poultry, but still engaged in primitive gathering and fishing and hunting. Longshan Culture was first discovered in Shandong Province, but the subsequent discovery of the Miaodigou II culture, Henan Longshan Culture, etc., are in the Heluo area. It succeeded the Yangshao culture on the top and the Erlitou culture on the bottom.