On the origin of rice agriculture in southern China and its propagation in East Asia |
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| Authors: | Zhenguo Huang |
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| Institution: | (1) Guangzhou Institute of Geography, 510070 Guangzhou, PRC |
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| Abstract: | Based on the archaeological rice cultivation with the14C dating of about 4000–5000 a B.P. the author holds that the plain at the lower reaches of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River
is one origin of rice cultivation in Asia and the other is Allahabad of India. The propagation of ancient rice cultivation
in China can be divided into three stages, namely 4000–3000, 2635–2420 and about 1000 a B.P. It is inferred that there were
two ways for propagating rice cultivation from China to Japan. One was from lower reaches of Changjiang River to Kyushu by
sea way and the other was from Shandong Peninsula to southern Korea and then to Kyushu. The age of propagating rice cultivation
into Vietnam from South China is about 1000 a B.P. Being influenced by climatic changes since about 5000 a B.P. the propagation
of rice cultivation was stagnated for two times at least, for example, the three warm climatic stages and the two cold stages
were quite in correspondence with the propagation and stagnation stages of rice cultivation, respectively, in China. During
the ancient times the development of paddy rice was directive related to the fluctuation of sea level which is in keeping
with the climatic changes. |
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| Keywords: | rice agriculture rice propagation East Asia |
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