At sites of artifacts from communities more than 7000 years old found at Banpo Village (Henan Province) and Hemu (Zhejiang Province) in mainland China, it can be inferred from remnants of posts and beams that there must have been thatched homes at that time.
早在七千多年前，中國河南省的半坡村和浙江省的河姆渡文化遺址中，由殘存的木樁、梁柱可以推想當時應該就有草屋存在。