Because early in the neolithic period, about 5000 B.C., when the Yang-shao culture appeared in the Central Plain, there was the Ta-wen-kou culture of Shantung and the Hsin-yueh culture of the Liao River Basin in the north; the Ta-hsi, Ma-chia-ping and Ho-mu-tucultures of the Yangtze river basin in the south; and the Taiwan Strait culture along the southeast coast.
因為早在新石器時代，約公元前五千年，中原出現仰韶文化時，北方就有山東的大汶口文化、遼河流域的新樂文化；南方長江流域有大溪文化、馬家文化、河姆渡文化；東南海岸有台灣海峽文化。