庙底沟时代与“早期中国”

The Miaodigou Age and the "Early China"

仰韶文化东庄—庙底沟类型时期,中国大部分地区的考古学文化首次交融联系形成以中原为核心的文化共同体,这个文化共同体所处的新时代即为庙底沟时代。总体来看,庙底沟时代是在公元前4000年前后仰韶文化东庄—庙底沟类型对外强力扩张影响下形成的,其到来标志着"早期中国文化圈"或文化上"早期中国"的形成。

At the time of the Dongzhuang and Miaodigou Types of Yangshao Culture, the archaeological cuhures in most of the regions within present-day China formed for the first time into a cultural community with the Central Plains as the center. The new period during which this cultural community was existing was Miaodigou Age. Seen as a whole, Miaodigou Age was formed under the influence of the powerful expansion of Dongzhuang and Miaodigou Types of Yangshao Culture around 4000 BC, the completion of which marked the formation of the ＂Early Chinese Cultural Sphere＂ or the ＂Early China＂ in cultural sense.