(Abstract in Agricultural Archaeology, p. 413. Translated by Tracy Chen, edited by B. Gordon)

        While Boyi Yi Dao is one of the earliest rice cultural records, its comments "on northern millet and southern rice" did not promote further consideration and research. Archaeological material in 8000 year-old Jiahu, Wuyang, Henan Province, reconfirm Yellow and Huai Basins as crucial to the origin and growth of Chinese rice culture.

        Jiahu is common to Jiangsu, Shangdong, Henan and Anhui Provinces, the later and main area of Ying State’s Boyi people and almost overlapping the Wuyang rice site. Their two periods forming a full developmental sequence indicate dry field cultivation and rice planting were longterm in the common basin, one of the cradlelands for Chinese cultivated rice. Higher level agriculture began with the Boyi and advanced other Chinese groups very early, with rice cultivating technology continuously advancing at that time.