Since the foreign students who study Chinese in China have learnt some information about the primitive society, you may general knowledge of it know. According to the archaeologists’ survey about the relics in the primitive society in China, there are many engraving signs found by in them. For example, more than one hundred and twenty engraving signs have been found in the Banpo site in Xi’an province in 1954. During learning Chinese in China, you can go to the museum to see these Chinese treasures in Chinese culture. These discovered engraving signs can be classified into more than twenty categories.
Besides, the engraving signs and the colorful painting signs which were created in the primitive society have been discovered in the Yang Shao culture relics in Shangxi province, too, such as Chang’an Wu Lou, Lin Tong Jiang Zhai and so on. And these are important to survey the Chinese culture. By learning Chinese in China, you can feel this by traveling these places. In addition, some of the engraving signs discovered in the Yang Shao culture relics are similar to those found in the Banpo relics.
Recent years, more than twenty kinds of engraving signs have been found in the No. 75 tomb in Da Wen Kou relics in Shangdong province and Dong Chu Zhai relics. With learning Chinese in China, it is often to see these famous relics on the history books. What’s more, these signs are engraving signs are carved on the ancient potteries. After study Chinese in China, you may have met these Chinese treasures created in the primitive society on the books or in the museums. And these signs are more advanced than those found in the Yang Shao culture relics. These signs have been looked upon as the most ancient Chinese characters in Chinese culture.
At the end of the primitive society, the color painting was popular among the common people. The discovered painted potteries were painted with various veins and exquisite pictures such as triangle lines, lines, leaves, fish, and geometric pictures and so on. If you study Chinese in China and are interested on them, you may have found the variety of the colored potteries. The painted potteries discovered in the Banpo relics were also created with the image of fish which is realistic. And the image of fish on the painted pottery is drawn in the proper proportion. It is so vivid that everyone is keen on it. And these can be treasure for you if you study Chinese in China.
At the same time, the archaeologists have discovered the rock paintings created in the primitive society in the Sun Jia Zhai in Qing Hai province. if came to China or learn Chinese in China, you can go to see places to enjoy these treasures yourselves. On the other hand, the rock paintings explored from the Lian Yun Gan in Jiangsu province are rich in the scenes such as the face, crops, beast face and other different kinds of symbols. After studying Chinese in China, you may find the significance of these symbols to Chinese people or the ancient people in primitive society. What’s more, these images on the rock paintings have reflected the economy and the culture on the coast more than four thousand years ago.
Moreover, carving was an important art in Chinese culture at that time such as the bone carvings, ivory carving, pottery carvings and stone carvings. Most of them are mainly carved with lines from the primitive society. For example, the knife carved with bird figure was found in the He Mu Du culture relics. The bird figure is carved with all the characters of bird vividly. Besides, the ivory carvings discovered in the Da Wen Kou culture relics are also equipped with the novel image of flowers. All of these Chinese left from the primitive society are important to the modern Chinese and the Chinese culture.