Liyang Plain

Liyang Plain[3] or Liyang Pingyuan[4] (simplified Chinese: 澧阳平原; traditional Chinese: 澧陽平原; pinyin: Lǐyáng píngyuán) is a plain is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Lishui River on the northwestern shore of Dongting Lake in Hunan Province.[5] It includes numerous rivers and lakes.[6]

Liyang Plain
Chinese澧阳平原
LocationNorthwestern Hunan[1]
Known forThe earliest origin of rice in the world[2]

Liyang Plain is recognized as one of the first places where rice cultivation originated in the world.[7]

References
  1. "Holocene hydro-environmental evolution and its impacts on human occupation in Jianghan-Dongting Basin, middle reaches of the Yangtze River, China". Springer.com. Mar 2, 2020.
  2. "Liyang Plain is recognized as the earliest origin of rice in the world". China News Service. 2009-06-12.
  3. Paul R. Goldin (15 May 2018). Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History. Routledge. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-1-317-68191-5.
  4. Li Liu; Xingcan Chen (30 April 2012). The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Cambridge University Press. pp. 441–. ISBN 978-0-521-64310-8.
  5. "New evidence for the origin of rice farming in the world". People's Daily. 2014-03-17.
  6. Anne P. Underhill (26 February 2013). A Companion to Chinese Archaeology. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 549–. ISBN 978-1-118-32578-0.
  7. Vinod Chandra Srivastava (2008). History of Agriculture in India, Up to C. 1200 A.D. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 41–. ISBN 978-81-8069-521-6.


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