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With a history of several thousand years,central China’s Hunan Province boasts a large number of cultural relics.The Hunan Provincial Museum in the provincial capital of Changsha alone houses more than 180,000 ancient artifacts.According to Yu Yanjiao,a researcher with the museum,there are four“must-knows”about Hunan’s cultural heritage.Birthplace of rice Hunan’s climate and soil are eminently suitable for the growth of rice.In 1995,four rice kernels dating back over 10,000 years were discovered in the archaeological site of Yuchanyan in Daoxian County,Yongzhou,which indicates that wild rice has been grown in the region since ancient times.Archaeological discoveries indicate that there are multiple locations in which wild rice used to be grown in Hunan.In 1988,a large quantity of rice husks mixed in with broken pottery pieces were found in the Pengtoushan Site in Lixian County,Changde City.These rice husks were identified to date back 9,000 years.
With a history of several thousand years, central China’s Hunan Province boasts a large number of cultural relics.The Hunan Provincial Museum in the provincial capital of Changsha alone houses more than 180,000 ancient artifacts. According to Yu Yanjiao, a researcher with the museum, there are four “must-knows ” about Hunan’s cultural heritage. Birthplace of rice Hunan’s climate and soil are eminently suitable for the growth of rice. In 1995, four rice kernels dating back more than 10,000 years were discovered in the archaeological site of Yuchanyan in Daoxian County, Yongzhou, which indicates that wild rice has been grown in the region since Ancient times. Archaeological discoveries indicate that there are multiple locations in which wild rice used to be grown in Hunan. In 1988, a large quantity of rice husks mixed in with broken pottery pieces were found in the Pengtoushan Site in Lixian County, Changde City. These rice husks were identified to date back 9,000 years.