它，是江南文明的曙光

7000年前，杭州灣南岸的寧（波）紹（興）平原誕生了河姆渡文化，留下了目前所能發現的浙江大地上最早的人類活動的痕跡。河姆渡文化以稻谷遺物、木建筑遺跡、動植物遺骸以及土陶上那殘缺的圖案等實物，佐證它是長江流域中華文明的發祥地，是江南綿延不斷的文明的早春，是浙江滄海桑田的文化史的起源。

本期視點從文化、考古、傳承等角度，探視河姆渡文化對寧波、對浙江、對長江流域的中華文明乃至對世界文明的貢獻與影響。

The Hemudu Culture took shape in present-day Ningbo-Shaoxing Plain south of the Hangzhou Bay 7，000 years ago， leaving us the traces of the earliest known human activities in Zhejiang. Ample evidences such as remains of rice grains， woodwork， animals and plants unearthed from the sites of Hemudu testify convincingly that Hemudu sites combine to be a cradle of Chinese civilization in the Yangtze River basin， the first dawning moment of a civilization that has prospered since then， and the departure point of the history of culture of Zhejiang.

A series of articles in this issue of Cultural Dialogue explores the impacts the Hemudu Culture had on Ningbo， Zhejiang， the Chinese civilization in the Yangtze River region and the outside world in terms of culture， agriculture and far-reaching benefits and influences.