Mankind is about to move from the natural caves out of the hands of their own construction of semi-crypt-style housing, the measurements began activity. Primitive experience about migration flows more than 100 million years of life, from the cave the cave, wood for the nest structure gradually learn to build houses, village organizations, and began to settle down. About six years ago,ago in the Yellow River Basin has been intensive with hundreds of matriarchal villages and Jiangzhai Site Banpo is the suburbs of Xi39an, on the banks of the Weihe River has been to explore the ancient and typical residential areas. Banpo site area of about 10,000 square meters of existing, when residents of at least four to five hundred people. Sites separated settlements, pottery district and public cemetery is in three parts. Living area with a structure similar to the size of the housing is similar to IV, 50. We measured a square of which housing foundation, about 1.6 meters on each side. Jiangzhai Site foundation of a big house, four of about 9.1 meters. 1 of this period the Housing and more like-shaped structure, with different length of the branches, so the pillars of tree trunks, the grass outside the chronology and then add a layer of soil. In this way, before the construction of housing must take into account the length of each pillar, the scene can not find a suitable material, it will increase hand and elbow were compared to memory to help for the length of an important start to know with sticks measured. Jiangzhai Site Banpo and a lot of housing and construction, the proportion of a certain size, they can prove that, because of the need for production and daily life has become a relatively early stage of measurement.
2. From cultivation to distribution
According to archaeological excavation reports, Banpo site in addition to many houses, there are one or two hundred cellar. These clan villagers cellar is public warehouse, which found a large accumulation of the cellar up to 18 cm thick layer has a decay of the Su. These are the original grain collective communes, the food from the hands of clan chiefs, some of which need to be re-phased in batches and allocated to you and some will be ready when there is famine emergency use.
In fact, the need for food reserves, is also the Banpo village life experience accumulated over a long
miu miu period gradually recognized. In the harvest season, the clan chiefs to bring together all the food by the average number assigned to you. Get more food later, we will no longer be willing to go outside to look for other food to add. Once these food eaten, especially in winter, the natural world can not find food, a lot of people because of long-term lack of adequate food and have died. During many years, people gradually realize that not all the food by, eat, and reserves should be. Therefore the harvest season, only the part of food distribution to the members, the remaining reserves, and usually to the collection and hunting to supplement inadequate when the cold, collecting wild fruit and very difficult to catch fish and the clam grapple, the then mass reserves of food allocated to you.
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miu miu tasche the past, eat up the years can be called a provisional allocation of pottery tools and standard of food per person will be basically the same, after a food, the pottery will be lost as a standard The role of the device, when the next allocation of a provisional finding. However, when people have the storage activities, it is necessary to take into account how much storage can be managed through the cold winter this year compared with last year, harvest is increased or decreased and so on, then there is preservation of a relatively stable dedicated the necessary measurement tools.way they used to record harvest last year, to be the second year of pottery is still used to measure the same, so that year after year, and finally summed up the experience, know how much should be allocated and how much storage. Clan chiefs to choose one or more containers each year and use it to measure the distribution of food, these devices will become fixed in a certain range of special gauges. Special gauges are usually kept in the clan chiefs, the commune in the daily lives of the residents seems to be no need for widespread use, but also, and there are no direct conflicts of interest, the objects themselves, what the legal system does not exist, and as long as we recognize it, to comply with its will be held.
Banpo Village in the Exhibition Hall has a variety of sizes can also see the pottery,... ..., although one which has been unable to determine the capacity of the standard at the time, but can imagine that, choose one of a gauges as the distribution of matter is entirely possible.
Second, China39s ancient weights and measures standards for the establishment of the first people - the Dayu flood
Into primitive society to slave society in the history of our country can be traced back to legends of the era of the Yellow Emperor, the Yao, Shun and Yu Xia until the early stage lasted for hundreds of years ago, in this historical period there are many legends five or six thousand years before the end of our country is in a primitive society, in the Yellow River flooding often happens to people39s lives caused by the threat of gun, so the myth of Yu water is widely spread and long-term. According to Records of the Historian of the summer in mind, records, Yao Ming had water gun, but the gun did not succeed, after the sun has ordered the son of Gun Woo to complete water projects. Yu summed up the failure of his father because water simply fall into the high-submerged bank , embankment block flow, then decided to adopt the dam side with the guidance of the practice, according to local conditions, flexibility to deal with the relationship between land and water. Records of the Historian of the summer in mind, Yu praised British palace, addressed to charges in the groove