HERITHING

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Huisheng Series
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With a series of sites, including the City Site built during ca. 3300-2300 BCE, the Peripheral Water Conservancy System with complex functions and socially-graded cemeteries (including an altar), and the excavated objects represented by series of jade artefacts symbolizing the belief system, as well as its early age, the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, as the centre of power and belief of Liangzhu culture, reveals an early regional state with rice-cultivating agriculture as its economic base, and social differentiation and a unified belief system, which existed in the Circum-Taihu Lake Area in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Late Neolithic period of China. Jade articles, facilitating governing, are one of the most outstanding material achievements at the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, and, as seen from their quantity, sizes, variety and workmanship, reflect the superb artistic achievements of Liangzhu culture. The choice of the site of the city was probably influenced by the willingness to monopolise and manage jade resources.