A 170-square-meter building with a cloister from 7000 to 6000 years ago, painted pottery tripods and bowls for burials, and the remains of the fire scene during the Yangshao period... On May 15th , Zhao Hui, Vice President of the Chinese Archaeological Society, Director of the Neolithic Special Committee of the Society, and Former Dean of the School of Archaeology and Museology of Peking University, Xia Zhengkai, professor and doctoral supervisor of Peking University, and Luan Fengshi, professor and doctoral supervisor of Shandong University and and other famous archaeologists visited Sanmenxia and successively visited Lingbao Chengyan Ruins and Beiyangping Ruins. Wei Xingtao, Vice President of Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and relevant officials from Sanmenxia and Lingbao accompanied .

Chengyan Ruins is located in the south of Chengyan Village, Chuankou Township, Lingbao City. Since April 2019, the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has organized the excavation of Chengyan Ruins, which covers an area of more than 4,600 square meters. The excavation area is mainly the early remains of the Yangshao culture, and a small amount of them are the middle and late Yangshao and Erlitou cultural remains. The 170-square-meter house with a cloister in the site is a major discovery, which is very rare among buildings 7000-6000 years ago.

"The settlement has its own characteristics, the houses are mainly semi-crypt style, and there also exsited typical ground-style buildings. Among them, a house with a combination of ground, semi-crypt and earth-rock structure was discovered for the first time." When it is introduced to the experts, the working staff said that columnar ruins are characterized by densely arranged column holes (or column foundations), and the processing is very particular.

Single earth pit tombs, multiple second burials, urn coffin burials... "The discovery of a large number of tombs in various burial forms provides new important information to study the burial customs, population structure, blood relationship, marriage relationship and social relationship of the early settlements in Yangshao Period.”Relevant experts said. In addition, stone carvings, silkworm pupae and other relics were unearthed at the Chengyan site, and a tomb was buried with colored pottery tripods and bowls. Early Yangshao pottery kilns, operating rooms, fire ponds, and kiln rooms are relatively intact. Experts said that the large number of pottery kilns, pits for storing pottery clay, and large-scale red-burning soil accumulation may reflect that this is a settlement dominated by pottery, and that there may have been a certain division of labor between the settlements at that time.

The Beiyangping Site is located in 500 meters west of Beiyangping Village, Yangping Town, Lingbao. In 2005, it was listed as the six preferred sites for the Chinese Civilization Discovery Project. During the inspection, Zhao Hui and other experts found that some tree trunks had obvious burn marks, lying scattered in many places on the site. Other bones are clearly embedded in the soil. The test results showed that the bone was a pig bone. Experts have judged that there may have been a fire in the settlement, which destroyed the house, smashed the large vat in the house, etc. The black tree trunk should be the burnt trace of the house beam.

At the end of the inspection, the experts all spoke highly of the many archaeological discoveries at the Lingbao Chengyan Ruins and Beiyangping Ruins. They considered that the two major ruins provided important new information to further understand the characteristics of the Yangshao culture, especially the Dongzhuang-type culture in the southern Jinnan area of western Henan, which is of great significance to promote the Yellow River culture and advance the archaeology of the Yangshao culture. Experts said that Lingbao should strive to take measures before June to properly protect these excavation sites in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese archaeology and the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Yangshao culture.