Mianchi County
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| Traditional Chinese | 澠池 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 渑池 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Miǎnchí |
Mianchi County (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Miǎnchí) falls under the jurisdiction of Sanmenxia City, Henan.
The name of Yangshao Culture was related with a scholar of Swedish, which was a geologist, archaeologist and explorer, named Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874.7.3–1960.10.29), he discovered some pieces of pottery in the north of Mianchi County, and the site occupies a total area of nearly 300,000sq.m, with culture layer thickness 2 m. The pottery had existed in the New Stone Age. That was a revolutionary time for China, and also it took a new step in academic research in Chinese history. He made the name of village in Yangshao Culture. He built up Stasiatiskamuseet in Stockholm of Sweden, which depended on his discover in China. At present, it is include more than 400 pieces of Yangshao pottery in. Thanks for the good cooperation between Stasiatiskamuseet and China archaeologist, the culture relics could be keep well in the progress of Chinese Culture development. Mr. Andersson will be remembered forever. Yangshao cultures are extremely important in the history of Chinese prehistoric. It is Andersson's contribution that make China's traditional historian realize that archeology, especially field archeology, is the essential way to understand the ancient history, He helps to strengthen the relationship of culture exchange between Sweden and China in the future.
Over 5,000 places have found Yangshao Culture Site in China, while Henan has discovered 1,000 Sites; take up 12% of the country. it mainly distribute in the mid-up of HuangHe, which is the core of Qin, Jin and Yu province, east to the central of Hebei, south to the mid-and-upper Han River, west to the Taohe River valley of Gansu, north to Hetao area of Nei Monggol.
Yangshao Culture connected the history of Neolithic Age, Paleolithic Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age; it is created a trend of archaeological excavation. Yangshao Culture attracts worldwide historical experts, archaeological experts and scholar's attention. It unveiled the culture of Yangshao over 2000 years' history.
Mianchi is wealthy in resources and full of energy. The survey shows there is raw coal more than 30 species, include bauxite, quartz sand, limestone, iron, barite etc. The total reserves up to over 3 billion. The coal resource is up to 1.19 billion tons that richly in the whole country of coal production, the quality is high and made of high heat use for industry and power generation. The bauxite resource is obvious advantages and has good quality. It has proved reserves 11.5 million tons, and maintains 14.7 million tons, the average ratio of aluminum to silicon up to 9.3, is the number of 1.69 times for the whole province, ranking the first in Asia. The reserves of quartz sand have 77.8 million tons, the content of SiO2 is 98.65–99.26%, and all of these materials are easy to be opened, to support plenty of glass and architecture industry.
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