Angangxi Ancient Cultural Relics belong to relics of New Stone Age, which was around 6,000 or 7,000 years ago. It consists of 39 sites and relics points, which is distributed on various sizes of sand hills of the middle and lower reaches of Nenjiang River, together with lowlands, swamps and lakes. There are a lot of relics in these cultural relic sites, which have provided important foundations for the study of the culture of fishing and hunting people in northern prairie of China. A Russian railway staff was the first to discover a New Stone Age relics nearby Angangxi in 1928; The famous Archaeologist Liang Siyong performed a 4-day archaeological unearth at the place where was 1.5km south of Wufu Railway Station of Angangxi in 1930, and he unearthed large amount of small pressed and carved stonewares, potteries and bone wares, etc; Liang Siyong published a 44-page and nearly 70,000 words large-scale archaeological unearthing report Pre-history Relics of Angangxi in 1932, which had attracted extensive attention from scholars at home and abroad. From then on, the original cultural genre that the extensive distribution of mostly small pressed and carved stonewares alongside the banks of middle and lower reaches of Nenjiang River in Songnen Plain was called Culture of Angangxi, which occupied an important position in Chinese and World Ancient History and was recorded by General History of China, General History of World and Dictionary of Chinese Historic Interests. Angangxi Relics have become the prominent representative of culture of the fishing and hunting people in northern prairie of China. All famous historians Guo Moruo, Fan Wenlan and Lv Zhenyu have highly commented this. After liberation, governments at various levels have organized many scientific and salvation unearthing on the relics with very abundant cultural relics archaeological achievements achieved. It's praised as Banpo Clan Village Site in the North. Angangxi Relics was nominated to be National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit by the State Council in 1988, which was ranked into the 8 th Five-Year-Plan Protection Plan of the National Bureau of Cultural Relics. |