我国农业起源很早,距今约七八千年的新石器时代早期,中华大地已有多处发现农作物的遗存。在黄河流域,如甘肃秦安大地湾的老官台文化一期遗址内,一个灰坑中发现了稷和油菜籽。河南新郑裴李岗文化遗址内发现了炭化粟粒。在长江流域,如湖北宜都红花套的大溪文化遗址内,房屋建筑遗址的红烧土中夹杂着大量稻谷壳和稻草。浙江余姚河姆渡文化遗址内,发现稻谷、谷壳、稻秆和稻草的遗存, The origins of agriculture in China were very early. About 778 years ago, in the early Neolithic Age, there were many remains of crops found in the land of China. In the Yellow River basin, such as the site of the Laoguan Culture Station in Dadiwan, Qinan, Gansu, millet and rapeseed were found in a gray pit. Henan Xinzheng Pei Li Gang cultural sites found in carbonized miliary. Within the Daxi Cultural Site in the Yangtze River Valley, such as Honghuaju, Yidu, Hubei, a large number of rice husks and straw are contained in the terra-cotta pots of houses and buildings. Zhejiang Yuyao Hemudu cultural sites, found that rice, chaff, rice straw and straw remains,