中国是世界上农业起源中心地之一,这是无可怀疑的。大约距今七、八千年前,黄河流域裴李岗、磁山遗址,已发现粟、黍农作物,说明当时人们是以粟为其主要食物。长江流域河姆渡遗址,发现稻谷、稻谷壳、稻秆、稻叶等堆积物,说明当时南方人们是以稻米为其主要食物,同时也说明中国确系世界上栽培水稻作物的重要起源地之一。 It is beyond doubt that China is one of the centers of agricultural origin in the world. About seven or eight thousand years ago, Peiligang and Ciyama sites in the Yellow River Basin have discovered millet and millet crops, indicating that millet was the main food at that time. The discovery of the deposits of rice, rice husks, rice straw and rice leaves in the Hemudu site of the Yangtze River Basin shows that at that time the people of the South were using rice as their main food and at the same time showed that China was indeed one of the important origins of rice cultivation in the world.