西安:中国古人类的发祥地之一

Xi'an: One of the Birthplaces of China's Ancient Human

秦岭盘踞于中国中部,绵延两千余里,是中国南北的分界线,更是中国古人类和古文化的重要发祥地之一,是中华文明诞生的摇篮。秦岭北麓陕西段终南山下是黄河支流渭河盆地的核心地带,是黄土高原的重要组成部分。西安远古时代,气候温和湿润,膏壤千里,自古以来就有先民生息、繁衍在这块广袤的土地上,创造了灿烂的远古文化和辉煌的古代文明。从猿人到智人、到新人,从旧石器到新石器、到金石并用时代,西安地区的远古人类走过了上百万年的艰苦历程。西安地区的这些远古文化遗存不仅揭示了我国原始社会从发生到发展乃至解体的全过程,而且对于研究私有制的产生和国家的起源具有十分重要的历史意义,还证明了人类社会是一个由低级向高级、由简单向复杂、由必然王国向走自由王国的发展过程。这是一个不以人的主观意志为转移的客观规律。

Qinling Mountains in central China, stretching more than two thousand, is the boundary between the north and south China, one of the important birthplaces of Chinese ancient hurmns and culture, and the cradle of Chinese civilization. Being the important part of loess plateau, Zhongnanshan Mountain is located in north of Qin- ling Mountain in Shaanxi Province and as the core area of Wei River？ Basin in Yellow River. Xi＇an gifted moderate and moist climate and fertile soil in ancient times. So our ancestors lived and rluhiplied on this vast land, created a splendid ancient culture and glorious ancient civilization. Ancient human beings in Xi＇an have passed through millions of years of arduous journey, from the apes to Homo sapiens, and to man, from the Paleolithic to the Neo- lithic, and to stone and metal age. These ancient cultural relics in Xi＇an not only reveal the whole development process of primitive society, but also have important historical significance the origin of private ownership and the state. It proves that human society experiences the development from junior to senior, from simple to complex, from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom. This is the objective law.